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“The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.”

Long Real Social Term Sin Security Long Term Social Security Short Term Rip Scams

“No benefit comes from a just man's prayer if he who asks for it finds more pleasure in sin than in virtue. For Samuel mourned over Saul when he sinned, but he was not able to obtain God's mercy, for his grief was not supported by the necessary change of life on the part of the sinner. Hence God put an end to the pointless grief of His servant, saying to him, 'How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel?' (I Sam. 16:1).”

Ifs Men Long Ends Able Christian Asks Prayer Sin Pleasure Grief Virtue Seeing Benefits Mercy Israel Servant Life Changing Sinner Orthodox Rejected Mourn Pointless Necessary Change

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.”

People Ifs Long Left Social Sin Forgiveness Forgiving Icy

Book:The Letters of Robert Frost

Source: The Letters of Robert Frost

“When a man resists sin on human motive only, he will not hold out long.”

Men Humans Long Sin Temptation Motive

Author:Daniel H. Wilson

“Without sanctifying grace it is not possible to refrain long from mortal sin.”

Long Sin Grace Mortals Refrain Mortal Sin

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one.”

People Giving Long Said Enough Sin Asking Lists Ministers Gentleman Lazy Laziness Idle Enough Said

Book:John Ploughman's Talks

Source: John Ploughman's Talks

“In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God to do? To wipe out their past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every difficulty and offering every miraculous help? But He has done so, on Calvary. To forgive them? They will not be forgiven. To leave them alone? Alas, I am afraid that is what He does.”

Giving Long Doe Done Helping Running Past Sin Answers Hell Objects Cost Difficulty Asking Forgiving Doctrine Offering Long Runs Forgiven Alas Miraculous Wipe Fresh Start Calvary Asking God

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.”

Men Long Hours Sin Offers Highest Delight Anguish Tribulation One Hour Methuselah

Book:A commentary upon the holy Bible: Job to Salomon's song

Source: A commentary upon the holy Bible: Job to Salomon's song

“Wickedness comes to its height by degrees. He that dares say of a less sin, Is it not a little one? will ere long say of a greater, Tush, God regards it not!”

Littles Long Sin Greater Degrees Regard Dare Height Wickedness

Book:The Works of Anne Bradstreet

Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet

“[In response to Alfred Tennyson's poem "Vision of Sin," which included the line "Every moment dies a man, every moment one is born."] If this were true, the population of the world would be at a stand-still. In truth, the rate of birth is slightly in excess of death. I would suggest that the next edition of your poem should read: "Every moment dies a man, every moment 1 [and] 1/16 is born." Strictly speaking, the actual figure is so long I cannot get it into a line, but I believe the figure 1 [and] 1/16 will be sufficiently accurate for poetry.”

Ifs Men World Should Believe Long Stills Moments Would Be Dies Next I Believe Born Lines Sin Vision Figures Birth Response Rate Population Excess Accurate Tennyson

Author:Charles Babbage

“What is honor, and riches, and the favor of creatures - so long as I lack the favor of God, the pardon of my sins, a saving interest in Christ, and the hope of glory! O Lord, give me these, or I die! Give me these, or else I shall eternally die!”

Giving Long Dies Interest Christ Sin Lord Honor Creatures Glory Give Me Riches Favors Saving Pardon Favor Of God

Author:Thomas Brooks

“dogs love us unconditionally and cats are big on redemption. Our sins and shortcomings don't bother them as long as we delight in their presence.”

Long Bigs Sin Dog Cat Delight Redemption Bother Shortcomings Dog Love

Author:Sarah Ban Breathnach

“However long the horror continued, one must not get to the stage of refusing to think about it. To shrink from direct pain was bad enough, but to shrink from vicarious pain was the ultimate cowardice. And whereas to conceal direct pain was a virtue, to conceal vicarious pain was a sin. Only by feeling it to the utmost, and by expressing it, could the rest of the world help to heal the injury which had caused it. Money, food, clothing, shelter - people could give all these and still it would not be enough; it would not absolve them from paying also, in full, the imponderable tribute of grief.”

Source: A pocketful of pebbles

“Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.”

May Long Sin Forgiveness Repentance Old Fashioned Outdated

Author:J. C. Macaulay

“Artificiality is one curse that will drop away the moment we kneel at Jesus' feet and surrender ourselves to His meekness. Then we will not care what people think of us so long as God is pleased. Then what we are will be everything; what we appear will take its place far down the scale of interest for us. Apart from sin we have nothing of which to be ashamed. Only an evil desire to shine makes us want to appear other than we are.”

People Thinking Want Long Moments Care Desire Evil Jesus Interest Sin Feet Shining Scales Surrender Curse Ashamed Meekness Artificiality

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“People come to me with their heads held high and announce that they do not eat sugar anymore, as though they have tackled one of life's deadly sins. My response is to ask them how long they have had this problem and if they have considered seeing a psychiatrist.”

People Ifs Long Problem Asks Sin Seeing Response Sugar Psychiatrist Deadly Sins

Author:Emily Luchetti

“The plodding thrift and scrupulous integrity and long-winded patient industry of our business men of the last century are out of fashion in these "giddy-paced" times, and England is forgetting that those who make haste to be rich can hardly avoid much temptation and some sin.”

Source: Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters, Forming a Sequel to Record of a Girlhood, and Records of Later Life

“Take adultery or theft. Merely sins. It is evil who dines on the soul, stretching out its long bone tongue. It is evil who tweezers my heart, picking out its atomic worms.”

Heart Long Soul Evil Sin My Heart Bones Tongue Worms Adultery Theft Stretching Dine

Book:Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories

Source: Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories

“Hypocrisy is bad, but it's not the worst vice in the world. If I declared “murder is wrong” and then killed somebody, I would hope that the top count against me would be homicide, not hypocrisy. Liberal elites ' particularly in Hollywood ' believe that hypocrisy is the gravest sin in the world, which is why they advocate their own lifestyles for the entire world: Sleep with whomever you want, listen to your own instincts, be true to yourself, blah, blah, blah. Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony.”

“Original sin is in us like our beard. We are shaved today and look clean; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long as we live.”

Looks Long Doe Today Earth Sin Growing Tomorrow Spring Originals Clean Cease Beard Original Sin

Author:Martin Luther

“So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man.”

Men Long Happiness Sin Quarrels Happy Man Truly Happy

Book:Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity

Source: Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity

“The commission of the investment sins listed above is not limited to 'the little guy.' Huge institutional investors, viewed as a group, have long underperformed the unsophisticated index-fund investor who simply sits tight for decades. A major reason has been fees: Many institutions pay substantial sums to consultants who, in turn, recommend high-fee managers. And that is a fool's game.”

Littles Long Has Beens Reason Guy Turns Games Sin Pay Groups Huge Fool Majors Institutions Investment Investing Decades Managers Fund Investors Fees Consultants Index Funds

Author:Warren Buffett

“To any honest observer, Zimbabwe's sin is that it has taken the position to right a wrong, whose resolution has been too long overdue--to return its land to its people.”

People Long Has Beens Sin Taken Land Honest Position Return Resolution Observers Zimbabwe Overdue

Author:Cynthia McKinney

“It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.”

Long Sin Failing Selfishness Folly

Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“I preach hard against that idea and plead with people to make war against sin. I tell them it's not going to be easy. Some people are meant to wrestle with their sin a long time before God brings them to freedom, but let's wrestle. Let's fight. Let's do something besides just complain.”

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Author:Matt Chandler

“Oh, what peril attaches to sin willfully committed! For it is so difficult for man to bring himself to penance, and without penitence guilt remains and will ever remain, so long as man retains unchanged the will to sin, or is intent upon committing it.”

Men Long Difficult Sin Forgiveness Remains Guilt Committed Peril Penance Penitence

Book:The Spiritual Doctrine of St. Catherine of Genoa

Source: The Spiritual Doctrine of St. Catherine of Genoa

“Do not stop praying as long as, by God's grace, the fire and the water have not been exhausted, for it may happen that never again in your whole life will you have such a chance to ask for the forgiveness for your sins.”

May Long Whole Happens Asks Water Chance Sin Fire Grace Praying Forgiveness Whole Life Exhausted God's Grace

Author:John Climacus

“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.”

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Author:Ignatius of Loyola

“I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.”

Knows Way Long Term Sin Gains Satisfaction Superiors Triumph Long Term Sanctification Distaste

Author:John Piper

“For as long as love takes up the whole heart, what room is there for sin therein?”

Heart Long Whole Sin Rooms

Book:The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Sermons

Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Sermons

“So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation.”

Littles Long Sin Rooms Our Lives Temptation Idleness Softness

Book:The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: The rule and exercises of holy living and dying

Source: The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: The rule and exercises of holy living and dying

“Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst; 'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd Sin, Death, and Ignorance o'er all the world; That Sun like this (from which our sight we have) Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave.”

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Book:Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy

Source: Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy

“Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope in this way to atone for past sins and avoid future punishments; it is also because they long to visit the mind's antipodes and do some visionary sightseeing.”

Ifs Men Way Mind Long Body Past Motivation Sin Men And Women Punishment Evident Torment Visionaries Asceticism Sightseeing Antipodes

Book:Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948

Source: Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948

“A sick person is Allah's guest for as long as he is ill. Every day he is sick, God gives him countless rewards, as long as he says ' al hamdulillah', praise be to God, and does not fight it and complain. When God returns to him his health, he expiates his sins and gives him the status of the newly-born (completely pure and free of any sin). Illness is a mercy and a blessing.”

Giving Persons Long Doe Fighting Born Sin Return Blessing Pure Mercy Sick Praise Rewards Ill Illness Complaining Als Guests Sick Person

Author:Kristiane Backer

“The extortions and oppressions of government will go on so long as such bare fraudulence deceives and disarms the victims; so long as they are ready to swallow the immemorial official theory that protesting against the stealings of the archbishop's secretary's nephew's mistress' illegitimate son is a sin against the Holy Ghost.”

Long Government Sin Son Ready Theory Goes On Holy Victim Stealing Ghost Oppression Officials Deceiving Secretary Mistress Holy Ghost Nephew Extortion

Book:PREJUDICES A SELECTION

Source: PREJUDICES A SELECTION

“There is no true prayer without confession. As long as we have unconfessed sin in our soul, we are not going to have power with God in prayer. He says if we regard iniquity in our hearts, He will not hear us, much less answer. As long as we are living in any known sin, we have no power in prayer. God is not going to hear it.”

Ifs Heart Long Soul Prayer Sin Answers Known Regard Confession Iniquity Unconfessed Sin

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“The heart is naturally hard, and grows harder by custom in sin, especially by long abuse of mercy, neglect of the means of grace, and resisteing the spirit of grace.”

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Author:Richard Baxter

“You might declare that global warming and energy insecurity, not to mention urban sprawl and pollution, have intensified the sin of indulging one's motoring desires. And I would not argue with that point. You're right. I am a bad man. But over the long term, if you want to develop a new transportation and energy policy, you'd probably want to err on the side of assuming that people won't change much. And it is human nature to like to be empowered.”

“Conservatives came to office to reduce the size of government and enlarge the sphere of free and private initiative. But lately we have increased government in order to stay in office. And, soon, if we don't remember why we were elected we will have lost our office along with our principles, and leave a mountain of debt that our children's grandchildren will suffer from long after we have departed this earth. Because, my friends, hypocrisy is the most obvious of sins, and the people will punish it.”

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