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“If I think that someone else is causing my problem, I'm insane.”

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Byron Katie, born Kathryn E.惠特克, is an American author and thinker known for her psychological and philosophical practice, 'The Work'. She was born on December 6, 1942, and is renowned for her simple yet effective method of identifying and changing negative thought patterns. Katie's work has helped thousands of people and has had a profound impact globally. more

“St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back upon God, leaving the Creator for the sake of the creature. What punishment would that subject deserve who, while his king was giving him a command, contemptuously turned his back upon him to go and transgress his orders? This is what the sinner does; and this is punished in hell with the pain of loss, that is, the loss of God, a punishment richly deserved by him who in this life turns his back upon his sovereign good.”

Source: The Way of Salvation and of Perfection

“We should all realize that no matter where or how a man dies, if he is in the state of mortal sin and does not repent, when he could have done so and did not, the Devil tears his soul from his body with such anguish and distress that only a person who has experienced it can appreciate it.”

Ifs Men Should Persons Doe Soul Matter States Done Body Dies Realizing Sin Tears Devil Appreciate Saint Mortals Distress Anguish Repent Mortal Sin

Book:Writings

Source: Writings

“The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward with a claim...to save mankind from this sense of guilt, which they call sin.”

Different Sin Mankind Civilization Claims Guilt Overlooked Different Religions

Author:Sigmund Freud

“Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful.”

People Sin Mathematics Medicine Ill Math Theology Mathematical Math And Science Mathematics And Science

Author:Martin Luther

“Evil: That which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake”

Believe Evil Sin Mistake

Author:H. L. Mencken

“The faults of which we ask you [God] the remittance, it is you who make us commit them; the traps of which we implore you to deliver us, it is you who has set them for us; and the Satan which surrounds us, this Satan, it is you.”

Asks Sin Devil Faults Commit Satan Surround Traps

Author:Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

“It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At what point sin begins is a matter as to which casuists differ. One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent. But I doubt whether modern authorities would agree with him on this point.”

May Doe Matter Certain Evil Church Sin Opinion Doubt Modern Divine Authority Catholic Agree Odd Breasts Orthodox Public Opinion Nun

Book:Unpopular Essays

Source: Unpopular Essays

“The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin.”

Sin Ought Believer Condemning Mortification

Book:Overcoming Temptation and Sin

Source: Overcoming Temptation and Sin

“The mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the works or deeds of the flesh is the constant duty of believers.”

May Body Sin Duty Constant Deeds Believer Flesh Mortals Mortification

Book:The works ...

Source: The works ...

“Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.”

Sin Killing Cease Mortification Daily Work

Book:The Mortification of Sin in Believers: Containing the Necessity, Nature and Means of It; with a Resolution of Sundry Cases of Conscience Thereto Belonging

Source: The Mortification of Sin in Believers: Containing the Necessity, Nature and Means of It; with a Resolution of Sundry Cases of Conscience Thereto Belonging

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