Best destruction & sin Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“All sin has its being and origin in the fact that man wants to be his own judge. And in wanting to be that, and thinking and acting accordingly, he and his whole world is in conflict with God. It is an unreconciled world, and therefore a suffering world, a world given up to destruction.”

Thinking Men World Want Whole Facts Suffering Given Sin Acting Judging Conflict Destruction Whole World Given Up

Book:Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Volume 4, Part 1: The Subject-Matter and Problems of the Doctrine of of Reconciliation

Source: Church Dogmatics The Doctrine of Reconciliation, Volume 4, Part 1: The Subject-Matter and Problems of the Doctrine of of Reconciliation

“We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most.”

Men Has Beens Matter Past Sin Cities Ignorance Destruction Supreme Ships Guilty Instance What Matters Captains Crew Wickedness Wrecks Sinking

Book:Plato's Statesman

Source: Plato's Statesman

“Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost for want of care and culture, there is a sin of omission in the society to which they belong.”

Ifs Want Self Care Culture Lost Sin Kindness Destruction Preserves Self Destruction Parental Omission Fostering Castaway

Book:Colloquies on Society: Easyread Comfort Edition

Source: Colloquies on Society: Easyread Comfort Edition

“It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.”

Has Beens Said Sin Mouths Destruction Honey Bees Tails

Author:Hosea Ballou

“You cannot stay the shell in its flight; after it has left the mortar, it goes on to its mark, and there explodes, dealing destruction all around. Just as little can you stay the consequences of a sin after it has been committed. You may repent of it, you may even be forgiven for it, but still it goes on its deadly and desolating way. It has passed entirely beyond your reach; once done, it cannot be undone.”

Way May Littles Has Beens Stills Done Left Sin Goes On Consequence Destruction Mark Committed Flight Shells Forgiven Repent Undone Mortar

Book:Moses the Law-giver

Source: Moses the Law-giver

“In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors.”

Home America Individual Sin Race Family Horror Destruction Slavery Instinct Shelter Savages Relentless Cardinals Race In America

Author:Fannie Barrier Williams

“Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.”

Ifs Lying Natural Sin Destruction Originals Blind Greed Sake Worthy Paradise Original Sin

Book:Desert Solitaire

Source: Desert Solitaire

“Do we refuse to forgive? God, too, will refuse to forgive us. As we treat our neighbors, so also does God treat us. The forgiveness or unforgiveness of your sins, then, and hence also your salvation or destruction, depend on you yourself. For without forgiveness of sins there is no salvation. You can see for yourself how serious it is.”

Doe Sin Serious Depends Destruction Treats Salvation Forgiving Refuse Neighbor Forgiveness Of Sins

Author:Tikhon of Zadonsk

“I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent— That is my proper element.”

Spirit Evil Term Sin Elements Deserve Destruction Mephistopheles

Book:Goethe's Faust: part one and sections from part two

Source: Goethe's Faust: part one and sections from part two

“My father is the harbinger of death and destruction. My grandmother the Great Destroyer. My mother is the goddess of the hunt. I think I’ll be okay. (Kat) Yeah, you do have the history of absolute terror and cruelty in your veins. (Sin) Remember that if you ever come between me and my chocolate bar. (Kat)”

Ifs Thinking Remember Mother Father Sin Destruction Okay Absolutes Yeah Terror Bars Cruelty Grandmother Chocolate Goddess My Grandmother Veins Hunts Destroyers Harbinger Chocolate Bars

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Because there is no greater evil than ignorance and the destruction of genius. Ignorance has been responsible for more death, more bigotry, and more sin than any other force. It is the destroyer of mankind.”

Has Beens Evil Force Sin Greater Mankind Ignorance Genius Destruction Responsible Bigotry Destroyers

Book:Succubus Shadows

Source: Succubus Shadows

“Our God...is a consuming fire. And if we, by love, become transformed into Him and burn as He burns, His fire will be our everlasting joy. But if we refuse His love and remain in the coldness of sin and opposition to Him and to other men then will His fire (by our own choice rather than His) become our everlasting enemy, and Love, instead of being our joy, will become our torment and our destruction.”

Ifs Men Spiritual Joy Choices Sin Love Is Enemy Fire Destruction And Love Refuse Opposition Transformed Torment His Love Everlasting Consuming Coldness

Book:New Seeds of Contemplation

Source: New Seeds of Contemplation

“Don't accommodate any degree of temptation. Prevent sin and avoid having to deal with its inevitable destruction. So, turn it off! Look away! Avoid it at all costs. Direct your thoughts in wholesome paths. Remember your covenants and be faithful in temple attendance.”

Looks Remember Turns Sin Deals Path Cost Degrees Direct Destruction Temptation Inevitable Faithful Temples Covenant Accommodate Being Faithful Attendance

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“Consider as sin any minute of life spent on something other than saving souls for eternity from this world doomed to destruction.”

World Soul Sin Minutes This World Destruction Eternity Saving Doomed Saving Souls

Author:Richard Wurmbrand

“Whenever our sins press hard against us, whenever Satan would drive us to despair, we must hold up this shield, that God does not want us to be overwhelmed in everlasting destruction, for He has ordained His Son to be the salvation of the world.”

World Want Doe Hard Sin Son Despair Destruction Salvation Presses Satan Overwhelmed Everlasting Want U Shields

Author:John Calvin

“If you can sin and not weep over it, you are an heir of Hell. If you can go into sin, and afterwards feel satisfied to have done so, you are on the road to destruction. If there are no prickings of conscience, no inward torments, no bleeding wounds; if you have no throbs and heavings of a bosom that cannot rest; if your soul never feels filled with wormwood and gall when you know you have done evil, you are no child of God.”

Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 13: Sermons 728 to 787

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