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“Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To do less than your best is a sin. Every single one of us has the power for greatness, because greatness is determined by service-to yourself and to others.”

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Book:Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice

Source: Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice

“You need not fear the greatness or number of your sins.”

Needs Sin Numbers Greatness

Book:Sermons

Source: Sermons

“Immediately upon the fall, the mind of man shrank from its primitive greatness and expandedness, to an exceeding smallness and contractedness... Before, his soul was under the government of the noble principles of divine love, whereby it was enlarged to the comprehensiveness of all his fellow creatures and their welfare... [But] sin, like some powerful astringent, contracted his soul to the very small dimensions of selfishness, and God was forsaken, and man retired within himself, and became totally governed by narrow and selfish principles and feelings.”

“Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you -- and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!”

Men Earth Sin Animal Behinds Greatness Pride Superiority Alas Trails Behind You Ignoble

Book:Brothers Karamazov

Source: Brothers Karamazov

“No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound.”

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Book:Practical Truths

Source: Practical Truths

“What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. The greatness of God not admired. The power of God not praised. The truth of God not sought. The wisdom of God not esteemed. The beauty of God not treasured. The goodness of God not savored. The faithfulness of God not trusted. The commandments of God not obeyed. The justice of God not respected. The wrath of God not feared. The grace of God not cherished. The presence of God not prized. The person of God not loved. That is sin.”

“Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare.”

Thinking Men Should War Soul Lost Sin Teach Subjects Dying Greatness Duty Kings Offers Bed Conscience Advantage Sick Soldier Preparation Sick Man

Book:The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

“The secret to freedom from enslaving patterns of sin is worship. You need worship. You need great worship. You need weeping worship. You need glorious worship. You need to sense God’s greatness and to be moved it — moved to tears and moved to laughter — moved by who God is and what he has done for you.”

Needs Done Sin Secret Greatness Tears Worship Laughter Moved Patterns Glorious Weeping Who God Is Worship You

Author:Timothy Keller

“Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost every one of us!”

Source: The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)

“The magnitude of the punishment matches the magnitude of the sin. Now a sin that is against God is infinite; the higher the person against whom it is committed, the graver the sin-it is more criminal to strike a head of state than a private citizen-and God is of infinite greatness. Therefore an infinite punishment is deserved for a sin committed against Him.”

Persons States Sin Greatness Higher Citizens Infinite Committed Strikes Criminals Punishment Magnitude Head Of State

Book:Summa Theologiae: Volume 27, Effects of Sin, Stain and Guilt: 1a2ae. 86-89

Source: Summa Theologiae: Volume 27, Effects of Sin, Stain and Guilt: 1a2ae. 86-89

“Family prayer is the greatest deterrent to sin, and hence the most beneficent provider of joy and happiness. The old saying is yet true: 'The family that prays together stays together.'”