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And so about many other things of the same nature, we are trying to make people believe these things, and we make creeds of them; and thus we continue to do our own will, which is the ground of all sin.
Elias Hicks
Nature
People
Will
Own
Believe
Other
Our
About
Thus
Sin
Make
Continue
Trying
Same
Which
Them
Ground
Many
Things
Creeds
Is he not a God that showeth mercy and keepeth covenant? Of all sins, it seems to me that the sin of unbelief is the most dishonouring to God.
Elijah Parish Lovejoy
God
Me
Mercy
Unbelief
Seems
He
Sin
Most
Covenant
Sins
There's no such thing as an original sin.
Elvis Costello
Sin
Original
Original Sin
Thing
The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
Emma Goldman
Independence
Thought
Society
Unpardonable
Sin
Most
As Christians, we sin with anger because we lack faith in God's ability to provide for or protect us.
Eric Metaxas
God
Faith
Anger
Ability
Sin
Protect
Because
Provide
Lack
Us
Christians
Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It's all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.
Erwin McManus
Religion
Humanity
Management
Cause
Way
Possible
About
Sin
Little
Organizing
Such A Way
Whole
Damage
Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves.
Ezra Taft Benson
Pride
Seen
Others
Ourselves
Rarely
Admitted
Sin
Readily
In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.
Ezra Taft Benson
Pride
Considered
Righteous
Sin
Always
Scriptures
Thing
Woe to those who die in mortal sin!
Francis of Assisi
Those
Mortal
Sin
Woe
Die
Who
Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved.
Frank Abagnale
Class
Fault
Crime
Considered
Touch
More
Almost
Sin
Involved
Any
The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.
Frank Harris
Love
Goodness
Christian
Our
Churches
Degraded
Spirit
Following
Morality
Inspiration
Crowning
Higher
Sin
Idiotic
Were
Offered
Impulse
Being
Fiend
Paul
Capital
Turned
Things
Jesus
Rejected
Two
You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.
Frank Miller
You
People
Virtue
Virtues
Defined
Characters
Having
Environment
Sin
Sinful
Operate
Without
How
Test
Very
After
The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful.
Frederick Locker-Lampson
World
Ugly
Delightful
Almost
Sin
My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'
George McGovern
Love
Hate
Father
Sin
Clergyman
Said
Always
Sinner
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Cruelty
Kid
Worst
Worst Kind
Kind
Sin
Perhaps
Intellectual
Certainly
In all the things I've gone through as a politician, I have seen that in this system it is really very difficult to make any headway without being somehow tainted. And let me say, 'Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.'
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Me
Seen
First
Politician
Gone
Difficult
Say
System
Somehow
Cast
Through
Tainted
Sin
Headway
Make
Him
Without
Very
Stone
Any
Being
Really
Who
Things
The Church should say, 'I'm frightened that women will be ordained;' that's honest, say that. But don't say, 'It's a grave sin,' because that's nonsense.
Greg Boyle
Women
Church
Will
Say
Sin
Because
Nonsense
Frightened
Ordained
Should
Grave
Honest
The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.
Harold Warner
Pride
First
Sin
Most
Issue
Fundamental
I always say beauty is only sin deep.
Hector Hugh Munro
Beauty
Say
Only
Sin
Always
Deep
The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.
Henry L. Stimson
Only
Sin
Know
Deadly
Cynicism
The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.
Herbert Read
Care
Other
Our
Spirit
Only
Could
Take
Take Care
Sin
Ugliness
Left
Human
Being
Themselves
Human Spirit
Activities
Believed
My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.
Horatio Nelson
Happiness
Soul
King
Country
Alive
Only
Envious
Sin
Most
Glory
Greatest
Am
Greatest Happiness
Covet
Offending
Gracious
Serve
Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.
Iris Dement
Me
Fight
Some
Pretty
Seems
Guy
He
Sin
Call
Up
American
Refuses
Standing
Standing Up
Believes
Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.
Isaac Barrow
Hope
Design
Others
Reclaim
Out
Bad
Temper
Charitable
Follow
Observe
Sin
Courses
Due
Private
Discretion
Commit
May
Them
Persons
Even
Whom
Season
I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
J. I. Packer
Life
Me
Prayer
Out
Must
Spirit
Direct
Sin
Within
Lord
Ask
Holy
Holy Spirit
Drain
Sometimes 'sin' taxes are useful not because of their perceived health benefits but because they are effectively a form of voluntary taxation which tends to arouse less irritation than other taxes.
Jacob Rees-Mogg
Health
Benefits
Sometimes
Other
Perceived
Tends
Voluntary
Sin
Health Benefits
Because
Arouse
Effectively
Than
Form
Irritation
Which
Taxation
Taxes
Useful
Less
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