Best perfection & sin Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There is absolute truth in anarchism and it is to be seen in its attitude to the sovereignty of the state and to every form of state absolutism. [...] The religious truth of anarchism consists in this, that power over man is bound up with sin and evil, that a state of perfection is a state where there is no power of man over man, that is to say, anarchy. The Kingdom of God is freedom and the absence of such power... the Kingdom of God is anarchy.”

Men States Form Evil Religious Sin Attitude Perfection Absolutes Bounds Absence Kingdoms Anarchy Sovereignty Kingdom Of God Anarchism Absolute Truth Absolutism Religious Truth

Author:Nikolai Berdyaev

“Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.”

Play Games Sin Effort Virtue Draws Perfection Resistance

Book:Bulletin

Source: Bulletin

“To have a reputation for being noble, she thought, is more confining than to be known as a wit. On the rare days when a comedian has no jokes, people pardon the lapse. There is no forgiving a saint's occasional day of sin.”

People Sin Known Jokes Perfection Forgiving Saint Noble Wit Reputation Comedian Occasional Pardon Lapses

Book:The hills of Beverly

Source: The hills of Beverly

“Prayer is the converse of the soul with God. Therein we manifest or express to Him our reverence, and love for His divine perfection, our gratitude for all His mercies, our penitence for our sins, our hope in His forgiving love, our submission to His authority, our confidence in His care, our desires for His favour, and for the providential and spiritual blessings needed for ourselves and others.”

Source: Soteriology, eschatology

“Pardon me, O perfections of my God, for having preferred imperfect and evil inclinations to Thee! Pardon me, O justice of my God, for having outraged Thee by my sins. Pardon me, O holiness of my God, for having so long stained Thy sight's purity by my sins. Pardon me, O mercy of my God, for having despised so long Thy mercy's voice. In deep sorrow and contrition, I cast myself at Thy feet: Have mercy on me.”

Long Evil Voice Justice Sin Feet Sorrow Forgiveness Perfection Mercy Sight Casts Thee Purity Holiness Imperfect Inclination Pardon Despised Outraged Pardon Me Contrition Deep Sorrow

Author:Ignatius of Loyola

“Temptations come on some people for the cleansing of previous sins, on other for the beautification of their current perfection, and on yet others, as preparation for things to come, except temptations, which are for the increase of a man's faith and virtue, as it was with Job.”

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Author:Maximus the Confessor

“The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every sin already carries grace within it, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people — eternal life.”

World Moments Sin Perfect Path Grace Perfection Evolve Carrie Imperfection Imperfect

Author:Hermann Hesse

“Augustine says that we may, out of our dead sins, make stepping stones to rise to the heights of perfection. What did he mean by that? He meant that the memory of our falls may breed in us such a humility, such a distrust of self, such a constant clinging to Christ as we could never have had without the experience of our own weakness.”

May Mean Self Fall Christ Memories Sin Humility Weakness Stones Perfection Constant Height Distrust Clinging Stepping Stones Augustine

Author:James Stalker

“I don't see Jesus as rescuing the fallen; I see Jesus as expanding the potential of life. The primary reason the old idea of rescuing the fallen is no good is that there never was a time when we fell from perfection into sin.”

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Author:John Shelby Spong

“Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.”

Men Sin Achieve Capable Perfection Originals Incapable Original Sin Conceiving

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“I learned through my body and soul that it was necessary for me to sin, that I needed lust, that I had to strive for property and experience nausea and the depths of despair in order to learn not to resist them, in order to learn to love the world.”

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Author:Hermann Hesse

“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.”

Source: All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“Of course, some will say the goal [of abolition] is a utopian dream of human perfection. We needn't worry. There will be more than enough sins left for everyone to commit after we have taken nuclear bombs away from ourselves.”

Humans Enough Dream Courses Left Goal Sin Worry Taken Perfection Nuclear Commit Bombs Utopian Abolition Nuclear Bomb

Author:Jonathan Schell

“Wrath, unlike love, is not one of the intrinsic perfections of God. Rather, it is a function of God's holiness against sin. Where there is no sin, there is no wrath-but there will always be love in God. Where God in His holiness confronts His image-bearers in their rebellion, there must be wrath, or God is not the jealous God He claims to be, and His holiness is impugned. The price of diluting God's wrath is diminishing God's holiness.”

Sin Love Is Perfection Function Claims Holiness Rebellion Jealous Wrath

Author:D. A. Carson

“God didn't overlook your sins, lest he endorse them. He didn't punish you, lest he destroy you. He instead found a way to punish the sin and preserve the sinner. Jesus took your punishment, and God gave you credit for Jesus' perfection.”

Way Found Jesus Sin Perfection Credit Punishment Preserves Sinner

Book:Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

Source: Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine

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