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“Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national death, race death; a sin for which there is no atonement. No man, no woman, can shirk the primary duties of life, whether for love of ease and pleasure, or for any other cause, and retain his or her self-respect.”

Source: Message of the President of the United States Communicated to the Two Houses of Congress at the Beginning of the Second Session of the Fifty-ninth Congress

“But in that backroom or whatever it is when God confronts me with my sins, I do not believe any of the kills I had during the war will be among them. Everyone I shot was evil. I had good cause on every shot. They all deserved to die.”

Believe War Dies Evil Causes Sin Shots Good Causes Snipers

Author:Chris Kyle

“I also came to see that liberalism's superficial optimism concerning human nature caused it to overlook the fact that reason is darkened by sin. The more I thought about human nature the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin causes us to use our minds to rationalize our actions. Liberalism failed to see that reason by itself is little more than an instrument to justify man's defensive ways of thinking. Reason, devoid of the purifying power of faith, can never free itself from distortions and rationalizations.”

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.”

Men House Causes Sin Mortals

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)

“Every master of slaves is born a petty tyrant. They bring the judgment of heaven on a Country. As nations can not be rewarded or punished in the next world they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes & effects providence punishes national sins, by national calamities.”

World Country Next Heaven Nations Causes Born Sin Effects Masters Judgment Slave Chains Inevitable Tyrants Providence Can Not Petty Calamity Petty Tyrants

Author:George Mason

“Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It's all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.”

Way Littles Whole Humanity Causes Sin Management Damage

Author:Erwin McManus

“From what cause the rite of baptism first proceeded is not expressed formally in the scripture, but it may be probably thought to be an imitation of the law of Moses concerning leprosy, wherein the leprous man was commanded to be kept out of the camp of Israel for a certain time, after which time being judged by the priest to be clean, he was admitted into the camp after a solemn washing. And this may therefore be a type of the washing in baptism, wherein such men as are cleansed of the leprosy of Sin by Faith, are received into the church with the solemnity of baptism.”

Men Firsts May Law Certain Causes Church Sin Type Clean Israel Scripture Priests Camps Judged Imitation Solemn Moses Washing Baptism Rite Solemnity Being Judged Leprosy

Book:Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“It's a big mistake to think that your own cause, or your own country, or your own side has God in its corner. For one thing, it commits the sin of pride.”

Thinking Country Bigs Causes Sides Sin Mistake One Thing Pride Corners Commit Big Mistake Sin Of Pride

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Constancy, far from being a virtue, seems often to be the besetting sin of the human race, daughter of laziness and self-sufficiency, sister of sleep, the cause of most wars and practically all persecutions.”

Humans War Self Seems Causes Sleep Sin Race Virtue Daughter Resistance Human Race Laziness Persecution Status Quo Constancy Self Sufficiency Sufficiency

Book:Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

Source: Perseus In The Wind: A Life of Travel

“Grace doesn't cause people to live in sin; it frees them from the paralyzing effects of guilt and condemnation so that they can live holier accidentally now than they ever did on purpose before.”

People Purpose Causes Sin Grace Effects Guilt Condemnation

Author:Andrew Wommack

“In Paradise, as always: that which causes the sin and that which recognizes it for what it is are one. The clear conscience is Evil, which is so entirely victorious that it does not any longer consider the leap from left to right necessary.”

Doe Evil Left Causes Sin Clear Conscience Paradise Leap Clear Conscience

Book:The Blue Octavo Notebooks

Source: The Blue Octavo Notebooks

“Sins cause harm and repentance removes the cause”

Causes Sin Harm Remove Repentance

Author:Ibn Taymiyyah

“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.”

“We ain't got nothing without love. That's all we'll have when the world is through Cause, baby, we ain't got nothing without love.”

Knows World Ends Causes Sin Hell This World Sorry Satan Without Love Hail Lucifer I Am Sorry Am Sorry

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“It would seem that the ingratitude, whereby a subsequent sin causes the return of sins previously forgiven, is a special sin. For, the giving of thanks belongs to counter passion, which is a necessary condition of justice. But justice is a special virtue. Therefore this ingratitude is a special sin. Thanksgiving is a special virtue. But ingratitude is opposed to thanksgiving. Therefore ingratitude is a special sin.”

Giving Seems Passion Causes Justice Sin Virtue Special Conditions Return Thanks Forgiven Thanksgiving Ingratitude

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“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

“Whoever hates his sins will stop sinning; and whoever confesses them will receive remission. A man can not abandon the habit of sin if he does not first gain enmity toward sin, nor can he receive remission of sin without confession of sin. For the confession of sin is the cause of true humility.”

Ifs Men Inspirational Firsts Doe Christian Hate Causes Religious Sin Humility Habit Gains Abandon Orthodox Confession Can Not Enmity Sinning Remission True Humility

Author:Isaac of Nineveh

“A man of discernment, meditating on the healing Divine Providence, bears with thanksgiving the misfortunes that come to him. He sees their causes in his own sins, and not in anyone else. But a mindless man, when he sins and receives the punishment for it, considers the cause of his misfortune to be God, or people, not understanding God's care for him.”

“Whatever the natural cause, sin is the true cause of all earthquakes.”

Causes Natural Sin Earthquakes

Author:John Wesley

“Maybe if we said that sin causes cancer, people would take it more seriously.”

People Ifs Said Causes Sin Cancer

Author:Mark Hart

“That is why we fly from the inner void, since God might steal into it. It is not the pursuit of pleasure and the aversion for effort which causes sin, but fear of God. We know that we cannot see him face to face without dying, and we do not want to die.”

Knows Want Might Faces Dies Causes Sin Pleasure Effort Dying Pursuit Stealing Void Face To Face Wanting To Die Aversion

Author:Nina Simone

“God did not create the strife between races, nor did He intend for it to be that way. Strife between races and ethnic groups comes from sin-and sin resides in the human heart. The Bible says, “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?” (James 4:1). When one group or one race claims it is superior to another, pride has taken control-and pride is a sin.Instead, God wants us to learn to accept each other and love each other-and this becomes possible, as we turn our lives over to Christ and allow Him to change us from within.”

“The third class of evils comprise those which everyone causes to himself by his own action. This is the largest class, and is far more numerous than the second class. It is especially of these evils that all men complain, - only few men are found that do not sin against themselves by this kind of evil. ...This class of evil originates in man's vices, such as excessive desire for eating, drinking, and love; indulgence in these things in undue measure, or in improper manner, or partaking of bad food. This course brings diseases and afflictions upon the body and soul alike.”

Men Kind Soul Body Action Desire Courses Evil Found Causes Sin Class Disease Eating And Love Thirds Drinking Vices Complaining Affliction Indulgence Bad Food

Author:Maimonides

“Permissiveness, immorality, pornography, drugs, the power of peer pressure-all these and more-cause many to be tossed about on a sea of sin and crushed on the jagged reefs of lost opportunities, forfeited blessings, and shattered dreams.”

Dream Opportunity Lost Causes Sin Sea Blessing Drug Pressure Peers Pornography Crushed Shattered Immorality Peer Pressure Reefs Lost Opportunity Shattered Dreams

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“Sickness is real. However, I've seen too many people suffering with sicknesses not of their own choosing to say glibly that all sickness is caused by sin. On the other hand, to believe that sin does not exist and that all of our trials and tribulations have naturalistic explanations or are simply random events may cause us to miss the very solution we seek. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland observed that "too many people . . . want to sin and call it psychology."”

People Want Believe May Doe Real Hands Suffering Causes Sin Psychology Missing Events Solutions Trials Explanation Sickness Elders Tribulation Trials And Tribulations Holland Random Events

Author:Daniel K Judd

“Let us not fear the opposition of men; every great movement in the Church from Paul down to modern times has been criticized on the ground that it promoted scensoriousness and intolerance and disputing. Of course the gospel of Christ, in a world of sin and doubt will cause disputing; and if does not cause disputing and arrouse bitter opposition, that is a fairly sure sign that it is not being faithfully proclaimed.”

Ifs Men World Doe Has Beens Courses Causes Christ Church Sin Doubt Modern Movement Bitter Opposition Intolerance Being Faithful Modern Times

Author:John Gresham Machen

“I infer that God's decrees, and the necessity of event flowing thence, neither destroy the true free-agency of men, nor render the commission of sin a jot less heinous. They neither force the human will, nor extenuate the evil of human actions. Predestination, foreknowledge, and providence, only secure the event, and render it certainly future, in a way and manner (incomprehensibly indeed by us; but) perfectly consistent with the nature of second causes.”

Men Way Humans Action Evil Force Causes Sin Events Secure Agency Consistent Providence Decree Predestination Human Actions Human Will Free Agency

Author:Augustus Toplady

“More investment sins are probably committed by otherwise quite intelligent people because of "tax considerations" than from any other cause. One of my friends-a noted West Coast philosopher-maintains that a majority of life's errors are caused by forgetting what one is really trying to do. This is certainly the case when an emotionally supercharged element like taxes enters the picture (I have another friend-a noted East Coast philosopher who says it isn't the lack of representation he minds-it's the taxation).”

“This doctrine of forgiveness of sin is a premium on crime. Forgive us our sins means Let us continue in our iniquity. It is one of the most pernicious of doctrines, and one of the most fruitful sources of immorality. It has been the chief cause of making Christian nations the most immoral of nations. In teaching this doctrine Christ committed a sin for which his death did not atone, and which can never be forgiven. There is no forgiveness of sin. Every cause has its effect; every sinner must suffer the consequences of his sins.”