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“An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour in the Sun; after which it will never ach more; Probatum est.”

Hours Sin Half Sun Roots Teeth Dry Remedy Ache Elders Infallible Vinegar Infallibility Toothache

Book:Poor Richard's Almanack

Source: Poor Richard's Almanack

“He who sins easily, sins less. The very power Renders less vigorous the roots of evil.”

Evil Sin Roots Vigorous

Author:Ovid

“At root, evangelical anti-intellectualism is both a scandal and a sin. It is a scandal in the sense of being an offense and a stumbling block that needlessly hinders serious people from considering the Christian faith and coming to Christ. It is a sin because it is a refusal, contrary to Jesus' two great commandments, to love the Lord our God with our minds. Anti-intellectualism is quite simply a sin. Evangelicals must address it as such, beyond all excuses, evasions, or rationalizations of false piety.”

“Take steadily some one sin, which seems to stand out before thee, to root it out, by God's grace, and every fibre of it. Purpose strongly, by the grace and strength of God, wholly to sacrifice this sin or sinful inclination to the love of God, to spare it not, until thou leave of it none remaining, neither root nor branch.”

Seems Purpose Sin Grace Sacrifice Roots Thee God Love Branches Spares Standing Out Inclination God's Grace

Book:Parochial sermons

Source: Parochial sermons

“There could never be enough rules so finely crafted as to anticipate and cover every situation, and even if there were, enforcement would be impossibly expensive and burdensome. This approach leads to diminished freedom for everyone...In the end, it is only an internal moral compass in each individual that can effectively deal with the root causes as well as the symptoms of societal decay. Societies will struggle in vain to establish the common good until sin is denounced as sin and moral discipline takes its place in the pantheon of civic virtues.”

“Guilt is imposed by others on you. It is a strategy of the priests to exploit. It is a conspiracy between the priest and the politician to keep humanity in deep slavery forever. They create guilt in you, they create great fear of sin. They condemn you, they make you afraid, they poison your very roots with the idea of guilt. They destroy all possibilities of laughter, joy, celebration. Their condemnation is such that to laugh seems to be a sin, to be joyous means you are worldly.”

Mean Ideas Seems Joy Humanity Sin Laughing Forever Possibility Politician Laughter Roots Slavery Strategy Guilt Poison Priests Celebration Conspiracy Worldly Exploits Joyous Condemnation

Author:Rajneesh

“If someone has repented once of a sin, and again does the same sin, this is a sign that he has not been cleansed of the causes of the sin, wherefrom, as from a root, the shoots spring forth again.”

Ifs Inspirational Doe Christian Causes Religious Sin Spring Roots Orthodox

Author:Saint Basil

“By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin…by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin”

Sin Roots Guilt Saved Justification Sanctification

Book:The Works of the Late Reverend John Wesley, A.M.: From the Latest London Edition with the Last Corrections of the Author, Comprehending Also Numerous Translations, Notes, and an Original Preface, Etc

Source: The Works of the Late Reverend John Wesley, A.M.: From the Latest London Edition with the Last Corrections of the Author, Comprehending Also Numerous Translations, Notes, and an Original Preface, Etc

“On tobacco: A branch of the sin of drunkenness, which is the root of all sins.”

Sin Roots Branches Tobacco Drunkenness

Author:King James I

“The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century... It is this stereotype which continues to have influence today... But then came the First World War... What had gone wrong was that the idea of sin had been abandoned by liberal Christianity as some kind of unnecessary hangover from an earlier and less enlightened period in Christian history.”

“Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.”

Self States Christian Evil Religious Sin Tree Roots Fallen Branches

Book:An Humble, Earnest, and Affectionate Address to the Clergy; A Collection of Letters; Letters to a Lady inclined to enter the Romish Communion, Volume 9

Source: An Humble, Earnest, and Affectionate Address to the Clergy; A Collection of Letters; Letters to a Lady inclined to enter the Romish Communion, Volume 9

“..and certain that life consisted of a few simple signals and decisions; that death took root at the moment of birth and man’s only recourse thereafter was to water and tend it; that propagation was a fiction; consequently, society was a fiction too; that fathers and teachers, by virtue of being fathers and teachers, were guilty of a grievous sin.”

Men Moments Certain Father Water Sin Simple Decision Fiction Virtue Teacher Birth Roots Guilty Signals Being A Father Recourse Propagation

Author:Yukio Mishima

“Humility, the place of entire dependence on God, is the first duty and the highest virtue of the creature, and the root of every virtue. And so pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil.”

Firsts Evil Loss Sin Virtue Humility Duty Pride Creatures Highest Roots Dependence Dependence On God

Book:Humility

Source: Humility

“The twin conceptions of sin and vindictive punishment seem to be at the root of much that is most vigorous, both in religion and politics.”

Seems Evil Sin Roots Punishment Conception Twins Wickedness Vigorous Religion And Politics Vindictive

Book:Unpopular Essays

Source: Unpopular Essays

“The word 'sin' is beautiful; it comes from a root which means 'forgetfulness'. You may not be able to see the connection between forgetfulness and sin, but there IS a connection: forgetfulness means unawareness, unconsciousness.”

May Mean Able Beautiful Sin Roots Connections Forgetfulness Unconsciousness Unawareness

Author:Rajneesh

“Wakefulness is the only saintliness there is, and sleepiness, unconsciousness, is the only sin there is; all other sins are born out of it. Cut the root, cut the very root! Don't go on pruning the leaves.”

Born Sin Cutting Goes On Roots Unconsciousness Pruning Sleepiness

Author:Rajneesh

“Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all as if in sleep - not conscious of what he is doing, not conscious of what he is saying, not conscious of all that surrounds him. He moves surrounded in a dark cloud of unawareness. According to Gautama the Buddha, this is the original sin: to live unconsciously, to act out of unconsciousness. In fact, the word 'sin' comes from a root which means forgetfulness. Sin simply means that we are not conscious, aware, alert, that we don't have any inner light to guide us.”

Ifs Men Mean Facts Light Moving Dark Sleep Sin Walks Conscious Roots Originals Clouds Guides Awake Surround Robots Forgetfulness Original Sin Unconsciousness Inner Light Dark Clouds Unawareness

Author:Rajneesh

“Now nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that whatever it aims at it is crossed in.”

Hours Sin Roots Aim Strikes Mortification

Book:Temptation and Sin

Source: Temptation and Sin

“It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists.”

World Firsts Belief Fear Sin Christianity Atheism Taught Wall Devil Roots Rage Cures Sickness

Book:Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits

“'You told me, Father, that after my past life it is still possible to become another St. Augustine. I don't doubt it, and today more than yesterday I want to try to prove it.' But you have to cut out sin courageously from the root, as the holy Bishop of Hippo did.”

Want Trying Stills Today Past Father Sin Doubt Cutting Holy Prove Roots Yesterday Confession Bishops My Past Prove It Past Life Augustine Hippo

Author:Josemaria Escriva

“Perhaps the old monks were right when they tried to root love out; perhaps the poets are right when they try to water it. It is a blood-red flower, with the color of sin; but there is always the scent of a god about it.”

Love Trying Water Sin Blood Color Poet Flower Red Roots Scent Monk

Book:The Story of an African Farm

Source: The Story of an African Farm

“It is good to divert our sorrow for other things to the root of all, which is sin. Let our grief run most in that channel, that as sin bred grief, so grief may consume sin.”

May Running Sin Grief Sorrow Roots

Book:Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)

Source: Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)