Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical...

I should be inclined, therefore, as I have hinted before, to consider the world and this life as the mighty process of God, not for the trial, but for the creation and formation of mind,...

The original sin is to limit the Is. Don’t.

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

My brother trolled recovery and support groups, searching for women with dependency issues, the way I frequented bookstores with the hope of finding a well-adjusted, intelligent woman. Between us, his record was more stellar, his...

Being with him makes me feel different.

I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with...

If you say that you never lie in life,you honestly insult my intelligence.

The Divine “goodness” differs from ours, but it is not sheerly different; it differs from ours not as white from black, but as a perfect circle from a child’s first attempt to draw a wheel....

Hesitating, I stood in the doorway to the room holding the proof of my sin.

Every fall makes a dent; every fault has to be corrected; and every sin has to be cleansed. Everyone is a prisoner.

I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn’t find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance – You oh God – towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life...

If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.

Baada ya Adam na Hawa kutenda dhambi katika bustani ya Edeni, kila mtu anayezaliwa anazaliwa katika dhambi. Kwa hiyo dhambi hutokana na maisha, na maisha hutokana na dhambi.

We owe God a “double debt” incurred by our passive receipt of Adam’s debt but also by our active disobedience. The extent of our depravity is such that we also owe a “daring debt” because...

A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it...

The world is evil only when you become its slave.

Those who correct others should watch for the Holy Spirit to go ahead of them and touch a person’s heart. Learn to imitate Him who reproves gently. . . .When you become outraged over a...

There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men’s sins. As soon as you make yourself responsible in all sincerity for everything and for everyone, you will...

I’ve never seen such a bunch of apple-eaters.

we were made to be like this; filled with ashes and feels, burning down to what we dont want to be and what we dont want to see. sins? they are just a choice.

Whether you realize it or not, your ongoing battle with unbelief drives all your sinful thoughts, emotions, desires, and actions.

Her clear conscience mocked rumour’s mendacity, But we are a mob prone to credit sin.

To err is human – but it feels divine.

Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God’s right hand.’ Her voice grew faint, the hint of a whisper. ‘In the end pride is the only evil, the root of...

Each confrontation between Jesus and another person or group reveals what we do to each other, personally and on a public level. Each is an indictment against Christians, followers of the man crucified, the suffering...

When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself for those who are hungry, for those who have no schools,...

She understood the nature of sin and knew that its most volatile form was the kind that did not recognize itself.

We’re a divided country on sexual issues. That’s why every news cycle brings more controversy.

Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not...

While the memory of guilt is far from pleasant (like ‘wormwood and gall’), it has the curative intent of restoring us into an awareness of the constancy of God’s love, new every morning. God’s mercy...

Man’s thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. God’s thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God’s purpose for redemption is glory, glory,...

The proper biblical understanding of sin is much more radical and far-reaching. It can never be used as a weapon, because it will recoil on anyone who tries to deploy it that way.

Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest

Vanity is my favourite sin.

Not doing anything is doing something and choosing to look away is a passive but no less mortal sin.

The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show compassion; but that He cannot and will not have a...

Despite our battered exterior and in spite of the festering scars and rank filth that overlays it, there is underneath it all the pristine likeness of God Himself. And we would be wise to cast...

The earthly form of Christ is the form that died on the cross. The image of God is the image of Christ crucified. It is to this image that the life of the disciples must...

When your heart is gripped by the love of God poured out in the cross, and when you see the extent of that love in the propitiation by which Christ became the sacrifice for your...

But in all His dealings with His creatures God has maintained the principles of righteousness by revealing sin in its true character-by demonstrating that its sure result is misery and death.

No matter how sweet is smells, if you know it will give you a discomfort later, don’t even attempt to taste it. Discipline yourself to stay out of sin!

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

Sin became a luxury, a flower set in her hair, a diamond fastened on her brow.

Now everything that you do is written in red or black in Angel Gabriel’s book. Not for everyone is this record kept, but only for those who have taken a position of responsibility. There is...

The chaplain had sinned, and it was good. Common sense told him that telling lies and defecting from duty were sins. On the other hand, everyone knew that sin was evil and that no good...

I sometimes wonder if God calls us into the church because it represents not the people of God at their best but us at our worst. I wonder if he calls us to become embedded...

Who am I to pass judgment? Judgment has been passed on me, but I adhere to, ‘Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.’

Had there been a Papist among the crowd of Puritans, he might have seen in this beautiful woman, so picturesque in her attire and mien, and with the infant at her bosom, an object to...

Sometimes we get way too fixated on how powerful sin is and how weak we are. We worry that if we relax for a second, we’ll mess up royally and ruin everything. Ironically, our paranoia...