“In your personal morality code, make it the most serious kind of sin to tell a lie to yourself. Allow nothing to be as sacred as your own word. Make this one change in your life, and your whole life will change.” KindWholeLyingSinSelf EsteemSeriousMoralitySacredSelf ConfidenceWhole LifeEsteemCodeBoost Self ConfidenceBoost Self Esteem Book:The Forgotten Secret to Phenomenal Success Source: The Forgotten Secret to Phenomenal Success
“Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces or shrines. It has no sin, divine judgment, forbidden words, prayer, worship, prophecy, group privileges, or anointed 'holy' leaders. Atheists don't believe in a transcendent world or supernatural afterlife. Most important, there is no orthodoxy in atheism.” WorldBelieveImportantBookPrayerSinSpaceLeaderMoralGroupsAtheismDivineHolyJudgmentWorshipAbsolutesSacredDon't BelieveAtheistPrivilegeMythCodeRitualAfterlifeCreedsProphecyForbiddenOrthodoxyTranscendentShrinesMoral CodeHoly BooksSacred Space Author:Dan Barker
“The gospel does in truth proclaim the redemption of reason. Obscurantism is always evil, and wilful error is always sin., All truth is God's truth; facts, as such, are sacred, and nothing is more un-Christian than to run away from them.” DoeReasonFactsRunningChristianEvilSinTruth IsSacredErrorsRedemptionRunning Away Book:Fundamentalism Source: Fundamentalism
“The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That individual is set apart as a child of God, with a sacred purpose.” ChildrenMomentsPurposeJesusIndividualChristSinJesus ChristSacredChristian InspirationalAdoptedChild Of God Author:Charles Stanley
“Self-deceit—It’s in the “Nine Satanic Statements” but deserves to be repeated here. Another cardinal sin. We must not pay homage to any of the sacred cows presented to us, including the roles we are expected to play ourselves. The only time self-deceit should be entered into is when it’s fun, and with awareness. But then, it’s not self-deceit!” ShouldSelfPlayFunSinPayRolesAwarenessDeserveSacredIncludingExpectedNineStatementsDeceitCowsOnly TimeHomageCardinalsSatanicSacred Cows Author:Anton Szandor LaVey
“A sacred burden is this life ye bear, Look on it, lift it, bear it solemnly, Stand up and walk beneath it steadfastly; Fail not for sorrow, falter not for sin, But onward, upward, till the goal ye win.” LifeLooksWinningGoalSinWalksFailingFailureBearsSorrowSacredBurdenThis LifeLiftsOnward And Upward Author:Fanny Kemble
“O Jesus! Remember the sadness that Thou didst experience when, contemplating in the light of Thy divinity the predestination of those who would be saved by the merits of Thy sacred passion, thou didst see at the same time the great multitude of reprobates who would be damned for their sins, and Thou didst complain bitterly of those hopeless, lost, and unfortunate sinners.” LightWould BeRememberPassionJesusLostSinSadnessSacredComplainingSavedMeritDivinitySinnerHopelessContemplatingUnfortunateMultitudesPredestination Author:Brigit of Kildare
“For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.” IfsPersonsDiesChristSinSacredConfessionBaptismEfficacyConfessingRemissionFontsBaptized In Author:Saint Augustine
“[Naaman] dipped himself," it says, "seven times in Jordan." It was not for nothing that Naaman of old, when suffering from leprosy, was purified upon his being baptized, but as an indication to us. For as we are lepers in sin, we are made clean by means of the sacred water and the invocation of the Lord from our old transgressions, being spiritually regenerated as new-born babes, even as the Lord has declared: "Except a man be born again through water and the Spirit, he shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.” MenMeanMadeSpiritSufferingHeavenWaterBornSinLordSacredCleanSevenKingdomsIndicationJordanBabeBaptismBorn AgainKingdom Of HeavenTransgressionBaptizedLeperInvocationLeprosyChurch FathersBaptized In Author:Irenaeus of Lyons
“To keep me from sin and straying from Him, God has used devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. My life vows destined to be spent in the light irradiating from the tabernacle, and it is to the Heart of Jesus that I dare go for the solution of all my problems” HeartProblemLightUsedJesusSinSolutionsBlessedSacredDareDevotionSacramentsDestinedVowEucharistBlessed SacramentSacred Heart Author:Pope John XXIII
“All methods are sacred if they are internally necessary. All methods are sins if they are not justified by internal necessity.” IfsSinMethodSacredInternalsJustified Author:Wassily Kandinsky
“And each one is a partaker of this spiritual origin in regeneration; and to every one when he is re-born, the water of baptism is like the Virgin's womb; for the same Holy Spirit fills the font, Who filled the Virgin, that the sin, which that sacred conception overthrew, may be taken away by this mystical washing.” MaySpiritualSpiritWaterBornSinTakenHolySacredFilledHoly SpiritConceptionMysticalVirginsWombWashingBaptismRegenerationFonts Author:Pope Leo I
“And so we understand that the atonement of Jesus Christ gives us the opportunity to overcome spiritual death that results from sin, and, through making and keeping sacred covenants, to have the blessings of eternal life.” GivingSpiritualOpportunityJesusChristSinResultsBlessingEternalJesus ChristOvercomingSacredEternal LifeCovenantAtonementSpiritual Death Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“Thanks be to God, Who gives us sufferingas sacred remedy for all our sins,that best and purest essence which preparesthe strong in spirit for divine delights!” GivingSpiritStrongSinDivineEssenceSacredDelightThanksRemedy Author:Charles Baudelaire
“Health is a divine gift, and the care of the body is a sacred duty, to neglect which is to sin.” BodyCareSinDivineDutySacredNeglect Author:Eugen Sandow