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“Never feel dumb. Not knowing who or what is no sin. Ignorance is simply the measure of what you haven't got to yet. I find writers and works every day that I haven't got to, haven't even heard of.”

Feels Sin Knowing Heard Havens Ignorance Stupidity Dumb Not Knowing

Author:Thomas C Foster

“We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.”

Men Heart Soul Sin Knowing Elements Majors Concern Intention Primaries Impulse Purity Ruling

Book:Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)

Source: Ascetical Works (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 9)

“I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of I am, however young, writing at random straining at particles of light in the midst of a great darkness without knowing the bearing of any one assertion, of any one opinion. Yet may I not in this be free from sin?”

Thinking Writing Humans May Light Young Courses Sin Animal Opinion Darkness Knowing Midst Particles Assertion Human Animal

Book:The Complete Works of John Keats

Source: The Complete Works of John Keats

“That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.”

Mind Eye Dark Sin Knowledge Gone Knowing Birth Apples Adam Self Knowledge Adam And Eve Sins Not

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“The sin of the desert is knowing where the water is and not sharing it.”

Water Sin Knowing Desert

Book:The Five Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me for Women

Source: The Five Lessons a Millionaire Taught Me for Women

“Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective...That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No future bliss can make up for it,' not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say 'Let me but have this and I'll take the consequences': little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin.”

“Jesus Christ, who had all the power in the world, saw us enslaved by the very things we thought would free us ... He laid aside the infinities and immensities of His being and, at the cost of His life, paid the debt for our sins, purchasing us the only place our hearts can rest, in His Father's house. Knowing He did this will transform us from the inside out.”

World Heart Father House Jesus Christ Sin Knowing Saws Cost Jesus Christ Paid Debt Infinity Immensity Purchasing

Book:The Prodigal God: Recovering the heart of the Christian faith

Source: The Prodigal God: Recovering the heart of the Christian faith

“Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.”

People May Together Moving Sin Knowing Balance Sitting Let Me Suspicion Maxims

Book:The Penguin complete novels of Franz Kafka

Source: The Penguin complete novels of Franz Kafka