There are flowers growing in hell. Let’s go pick them!

You’re dressed for dancing,” she said in her throaty stage voice. “Being undressed for dancing occured to me, but I didn’t think Merris would like it.

If God spares us as a father does his son, let us imitate God. It is natural for children to imitate their parents. Let us imitate God in this one thing: As God spares us,...

The truth is, the Devil’s job is easy.

What if the actual sin was that despite the fact of knowing how cruel and unfair this world is; we still bring children to life?

The confessor can nullify the exquisitely seasonable moment of confession by talking instead of listening. When he sees pedagogy and advice as more important than simple listening, he diverts the stream of confession.

Sin/ alienation is psychological disease which if unhealed can lead to the living hell of lost hopes and blighted lives.

And yet with every wound You robbed me of a crime,And as each blow was paid with Blood,You paid me also each great sin with greater graces.For even as I killed You,You made Yourself a...

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can’t really get rid of it.

The strange thing about adulthood, when you’re single, is that it’s possible to go for fairly extended periods without facing blatant sin against. Sure there was plenty of sin against God but with such infrequent...

People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.

Grace abounds in contemporary movies, books, novels, films and music. If God is not in the whirlwind, He may be in a Woody Allen film, or a Bruce Springsteen concert. Most people understand imagery and...

Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good.

The flesh resists this daily humiliation, first by a frontal attack, and later by hiding itself under the words of the spirit (i.e. in the name of ‘evangelical liberty’). We claim liberty from all legal...

Smugness is the Great Catholic Sin.

Sloth may disguise itself as “conscientious work” and meet with various forms of public approval or success. But work that is not motivated by love for the life of the community, beyond the temporal and...

We are too prone to make technological instruments the scapegoats for the crimes of those who wield them. The products of modern science are not in themselves good or bad; it is the way they...

Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.

God lives in my soul, and I must spend my life scrubbing my soul clean of any trace of sin so that it derserves to host his presence. Repentance is a daily chore; at each...

They say let he who is without sin cast the first stone. And to be without sin requires absolute forgiveness. But when your memories are freshly opened wounds, forgiveness is the most unnatural of human...

suppress sin”.

…so unbelief alone commits sin..Hence Christ calls unbelief the only sin.

He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.

…Chillingworth was a striking evidence of man’s faculty of transforming himself into a devil, if he will only, for a reasonable space of time, undertake a devil’s office.

Nowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn’t share our rating system. To him, all sin is equally evil, and all sinners are equally lovable.

By daily contrition, and habitual mortification of the flesh, man is day by day RENEWED, bearing heavenly fruits and celestial graces, of an inexplicable sweetness. Contrariwise, the pleasure of the world bringeth heaviness of heart,...

Once you see that your skin and your gift are two sides of the same coin, you can never forget it. It preserves religion from any arrogance and denial.

The only sin is mediocrity.

When sinners accuse people,evil just did her job, accusing.

The more a nation gets into darkness, the more it’s going to hate the light. The more it’s going to run from the light. And we have a generation of people who have given themselves...

Remorse is the pain of sin.

It is a sinful abomination for one part of the world’s Christians to grow richer year by year while our brothers and sisters ache and suffer for lack of minimal health care, minimal education, and...

I love you, Hsin,” he said hoarsely. “I missed you so much.””I love you, too.” Sin’s voice was still thick and husky. “I came back for you. Because I wanted to find you, because I...

Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There’s just antisocial behavior, which we can control with measures like laws and educational programs.

God did create a world without sin. We just screwed it up.

Sin is man’s, last attempt to perfection.

Were God to show grace to all of Adam’s descendants, men would at once conclude that He was righteously compelled to take them to heaven as meet compensation for allowing the human race to fall...

Delight is délice, délit is a misdemeanour”Well, it’s bloody close…”Well, they often are….

Liberation from the tyranny of the body contributes to greatness, but just as much to greatness in sin as to greatness in virtue.

If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.

In time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyond the actual deed. Were it a deed only, I for one would not hold it anathema. But when...

When man subverted order he did a great deal more than merely fall away from the rationality of his nature, diminish his own humanity, which is all that he does in Aristostle’s ethics, nor he...

A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.

To confess your sins to God is not to tell God anything God doesn’t already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you. When you confess them, they become the Golden...

During his time with the French army, years before, one of the sergeants had explained to the younger mercenaries the trick of falling asleep the night before a battle. “Make yourself comfortable, examine your conscience,...

He came to put a harlot above a Pharisee, a penitent robber above a High Priest, and a prodigal son above his exemplary brother. To all the phonies and fakers who would say that they...

Another savage trait of our time is the disposition to talk about material substances instead of about ideas. The old civilisation talked about the sin of gluttony or excess. We talk about the Problem of...

Almost all the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.”Valancy stood up. She was still in the clutches of fear, but her soul was her...

Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.

All our good is apparently from God, because we are first naked and holy without any good, and afterwards enriched with all good.