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“We may never be martyrs but we can die to self, to sin, to the world, to our plans and ambitions. That is the significance of baptism; we died with Christ and rose to new life.”

World May Self Dies Christ Sin Plans Ambition Died Rose Significance New Life Martyr Baptism

Author:Vance Havner

“A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven - not excused or sublimated.”

Want May Sin Catholic Deny Genuine Sinner Forgiven Lord Forgive Me

Author:Fulton J. Sheen

“The man or woman who is born of God, who is regenerate, simply does not and cannot continue-abide-in a life of sin. They may backslide temporarily, but if they are born of God they will come back. It is as certain as that they have been born again. It is the way to test whether or not someone is born again.”

Ifs Men Way May Doe Has Beens Certain Born Sin He Man Tests Born Again

Author:Martyn

“Consumerism is, quite precisely, the consuming of life by the things consumed. It is living in a manner that is measured by having rather than being... and consumerism is hardly the sin of the rich. The poor, driven by discontent and envy, may be as consumed by what they do not have as the rich are consumed by what they do have. The question is not, certainly not most importantly, a question about economics. It is first and foremost a cultural and moral problem requiring a cultural and moral remedy.”

Firsts May Problem Sin Simple Poor Moral Rich Economics Envy Driven Remedy Consumerism Consumed Consuming Discontent Simple Living

Author:Richard John Neuhaus

“It may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our government But is this a reason to do nothing? Despair is nor an answer Neither is resignation Resignation only leads to indifference, which is not merely a sin but a punishment.”

Wells May Mean Reason Government Sin Answers Possibility Despair Pressure Punishment Indifference Resignation

Author:Elie Wiesel

“In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance.”

Men Needs May Sometimes Reason Body Spiritual Dies Sin Grace Sick Accounts Medicine Saint Spiritual Life Confession Sacraments Penance

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing, I say kill him on the spot, and never suffer him to commit another iniquity. I will prove by my works whether I can mete out justice to such persons, or not. I would consider it just as much my duty to do that, as to baptize a man for the remission of his sins.”

Ifs Knows Men Want May Persons I Can Suffering Justice Sin Duty Prove Stealing Commit Spots Thieves Iniquity Remission

Author:Brigham Young

“No sin is committed merely because a thought enters the mind, provided it is not made welcome. Perhaps we may use the figure that the thought first passes into an anteroom, where it stands before the mind acting as a judge. No matter how sordid or evil, it has not touched the personality with its infamy nor in any way laid guilt upon the soul unless and until the mind acting as judge admits it with a welcome. If the mind decides against it and dismisses it, the personality is not only unsullied but is, on the contrary, by this act of rejection stimulated and strengthened in moral power.”

Ifs Way Mind Firsts May Made Soul Matter Use Evil Sin Acting Moral Figures Judging Personality Guilt Committed Contrary Welcome Rejection Touched Infamy Power Of Thought

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose in a slicing machine: its dumb, stupid, and no fun. Some individual sins may have pleasure still attached to them because of the residual goodness of the realities they are abusing: adultery can indeed be pleasant and tying one on can amuse. But betrayal, jealousy, love grown cold, and the gray dawn of the morning after are nobody's idea of a good time.”

Source: Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus

“Walk more closely with God. Get nearer to Christ. Seek to exchange hope for assurance. Seek to feel the witness of the Spirit more closely and distinctly every year. Lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily threatens you. Press towards the mark more earnestly. Fight a better fight, and war a better warfare every year you live. Pray more. Read more. Subdue self more. Love the brethren more. Oh that you may endeavor to grow in grace every year, that the end of your Christian course may be better than the beginning!”

Feels Years May War Ends Self Christian Spirit Fighting Courses Grows Christ Sin Walks Grace Praying Weight Mark Presses Lays Witness Endeavor Warfare Assurance Brethren

Author:J. C. Ryle

“I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of I am, however young, writing at random straining at particles of light in the midst of a great darkness without knowing the bearing of any one assertion, of any one opinion. Yet may I not in this be free from sin?”

Thinking Writing Humans May Light Young Courses Sin Animal Opinion Darkness Knowing Midst Particles Assertion Human Animal

Book:The Complete Works of John Keats

Source: The Complete Works of John Keats

“A good education would be devoted to encouraging and refining the love of the beautiful, but a pathologically misguided moralism instead turns such longing into a sin against the high goal of making everyone feel good, of overcoming nature in the name of equality. ... Love of the beautiful may be the last and finest sacrifice to radical egalitarianism.”

Source: Love and Friendship

“The scapegoat upon whom the sins of the people are periodically laid, may also be a human being.”

People Humans May Human Beings Sin Scapegoat

Author:James G. Frazer

“Carefully purify your conscience from daily faults; suffer no sin to dwell in your heart; small as it may seem, it obscures the light of grace, weighs down the soul, and hinders that constant communion with Jesus Christ which it should be your pleasure to cultivate.”

Should Heart May Soul Light Seems Suffering Jesus Christ Sin Pleasure Grace Conscience Jesus Christ Constant Faults Communion Hinder

Book:Spiritual Progress

Source: Spiritual Progress

“God indeed tempteth no man; but yet we ask, in this petition, that he would keep and preserve us, lest the devil, the world, and our own flesh delude and draw us away from the true faith, and throw us into superstition, distrust, despair, and other grievous sins and wickedness; and that, if we should be tempted therewith even to the highest degree, we still may conquer, and at last triumph over them.”

Ifs Men World Should May Stills Lasts Asks Sin Despair Degrees Highest Draws Devil Flesh Conquer Triumph Preserves Superstitions Distrust Tempted Wickedness Petitions True Faith

Book:Martin Luther's Table Talk

Source: Martin Luther's Table Talk

“In the beginning the Gods made man, and fashioned the sky and the sea, And the earth's fair face for man's dwelling-place, and this was the Gods' decree: "Lo, We have given to man five wits: he discerneth folly and sin; He is swift to deride all the world outside, and blind to the world within: So that man may make sport and amuse Us, in battling for phrases or pelf, Now that each may know what forebodeth woe to his neighbor, and not to himself.”

Knows Men World May Made Earth Faces Given Sports Sin Five Sea Sky Fairs Blind Neighbor Wit Phrases Folly Woe Dwelling Decree Dwelling Place

Book:The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection

Source: The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection

“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

“There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned.”

Wells May Lying Order Found Sin

Book:Dr. Wortle's School: Trollope's Works

Source: Dr. Wortle's School: Trollope's Works

“For what accords better and more aptly with faith than to acknowledge ourselves divested of all virtue that we may be clothed by God, devoid of all goodness that we may be filled by him, the slaves of sin that he may give us freedom, blind that he may enlighten, lame that he may cure, and feeble that he may sustain us; to strip ourselves of all ground of glorying that he alone may shine forth glorious, and we be glorified in him?”

Giving May Sin Virtue Goodness Blind Filled Shining Slave Cures Acknowledge Glorious Enlightening Accord Lame

Book:The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)

Source: The Institutes Of The Christian Religion (Annotated Edition)

“Dear friends, have you begun to sing the "new song? " Loved ones are singing it in the heavenly home, and we may sing it here; and by and by we shall join them, gaze with them on the risen, glorified Lord, and our voices will mingle in the "new song" "unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever".”

May Home Song Voice Sin Lord Blood Singing Glory Dear Heavenly Loved Ones Dominion Risen Dear Friend New Songs Heavenly Home

Author:Abbott Eliot Kittredge

“Some people understand the charity of our Lord and are saved by it; others, relying on this mercy and kindness, continue in their sins, thinking that it may be theirs whenever they wish. But this is not so, for then they are too late and are taken in their sins before they expect it, and so damn themselves.”

People Thinking May Wish Sin Lord Kindness Taken Late Mercy Charity Saved Damn Too Late Our Lord

Book:The Ladder of Perfection

Source: The Ladder of Perfection

“You are born supernaturally through faith, by the grace of God, into the kingdom of righteousness; but you are born a little babe, that is all; and if you make any progress from that point on, it must be by work, by sacrifice, by the practice of Christian virtues, by benevolence, by self-denial, by resisting the adversary, by making valiant war for God and against sin; and on no other basis, am I authorized in giving you a hope that you may come to manhood in Christ Jesus.”

“I think then I may safely conclude and I firmly believe that American slavery is not only not a sin but especially commanded by God through Moses and approved by Christ through His Apostles.”

Thinking Believe May Christ Sin Slavery Moses Apostles Approved American Slavery

Book:Cotton is king

Source: Cotton is king

“A man may as certainly miscarry by his seeming righteousness and supposed graces, as by gross sins; and that is, when a man doth trust in these as his righteousness before God, for the satisfying His justice, appeasing His wrath, procuring His favor, and obtaining his own pardon.”

Men May Justice Sin Grace Favors Righteousness Satisfying Gross Wrath Pardon Seeming Obtaining

Book:An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners, in a Serious Treatise

Source: An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners, in a Serious Treatise

“Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all God's commandments, making conscience even of little sins and little duties.”

May Littles Christian Sin Duty Conscience Commandments Dominion

Author:Joseph Alleine

“Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.”

May Faces Sin Prove Your Face Fear Not Sins Not

Author:Moses

“If you feel sincerely sorry on account of your sins, and believe that Christ is able and willing to forgive you, the work is done. You may trust with all the confidence of a child who confesses his fault, and casts himself into his father's arms. This is faith; a simple trust in the power and willingness of the Father to forgive, for the sake of what Christ the Son has done.”

Ifs Feels Believe May Children Done Able Father Christ Sin Simple Willing Son Arms Accounts Forgiving Faults Sorry Sake Casts Willingness Sincerely

Author:Samuel I. Prime

“You may say, 'God doesn't hate anybody. God is love.' No, my friend. You need to understand something. Jesus Christ taught, the prophets taught, the apostles taught this: that apart from the grace of God revealed in Jesus Christ our Lord the only thing left for you is the wrath, the fierce anger of God because of your rebellion and your sin.”

Needs May Hate Jesus Left Christ Sin Lord Grace Taught My Friends Jesus Christ Prophet Rebellion Fierce Wrath Grace Of God Our Lord Apostles God Is Love

Author:Paul Washer

“Christians tell me that they have a higher destiny than the lower animals, because Homo Sapiens can reason. But the Bible tells me that this gift of reason, which they call god-given, may be the match that lights the fires of hell for all who dare to use it, since whatever is not of faith is sin.”

May Reason Use Light Christian Given Sin Animal Destiny Hell Fire Atheism Higher Dare Positive Atheism Homo Sapiens

Author:Ruth Hurmence Green

“The whole of education should be designed so as to occupy a boy's free time in cultivation of his body. He has no right to loaf about idly; but after his day's work is done, he ought to harden his young body, so that life may not find him soft when he enters it. No one should be allowed to sin at the expense of posterity, that is, of the race.”

Should May Done Whole Body Young Sin Race Boys Ought Expenses Posterity Cultivation Free Time

Author:Adolf Hitler

“So preach that those who do not fall out with their sins may fall out with thee.”

May Fall Sin Thee

Author:Martin Luther

“The word synergy comes from the Greek sin-ergo, meaning, to work together. It describes a mutually supportive atmosphere of trust, where each individual element works towards its own goals, and where the goals may be quite varied; nevertheless, because all elements of a synergetic system support one another, they also support the whole.”

May Whole Together Individual Goal Sin Support Elements Atmosphere Greek Working Together Nevertheless Supportive Synergy

Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“If we could make up our minds to spare our friends all details of ill health, of money losses, of domestic annoyances, of altercations, of committee work, of grievances, provocations, and anxieties, we should sin less against the world's good-humor. It may not be given us to add to the treasury of mirth; but there is considerable merit in not robbing it.”

Ifs World Should Mind May Given Loss Sin Anxiety Add Ill Details Complaining Merit Spares Committees Treasury Grievance Mirth Annoyance Robbing Provocation Good Humor Ill Health

Book:Compromises

Source: Compromises

“Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.”

May Soul Grows Sin Fire Divine Fruit Envy Subtle Bitterness Divine Love Acid Fluid Iniquity

Author:Hosea Ballou

“Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.”

Firsts May Remember Sin Stones Casts Remember When Slander

Author:Hosea Ballou

“The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.”

Men Humans May Mean Ends Whole Suffering Loss Sin Divine Harm Substance Reaching Maxims Human History

Book:Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man

Source: Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man

“People who carry a musical soul about them are, I think, more receptive than others. They smile more readily. One feels in them a pleasant propensity toward the lesser sins, a pleasing readiness also to admit the possibility that on occasion they may be in the wrong--they may be mistaken.”

People Thinking Feels May Soul Sin Possibility Musical Occasions Pleasant Mistaken Readiness Receptive Propensity Smile More

Author:Catherine Drinker Bowen

“Motherhood, to be sure, receives a great deal of sentimental adulation, but only if it is committed in accordance with rules which have been prescribed by a predominantly masculine society. Per se it is accorded no respect whatever. When it results from a sexual relationship which has been duly sanctioned by organized society, it is holy, no matter how much it may transgress the rules of decency, health, or common sense. Otherwise it is a sin meriting social ostracism for the mother and obloquy for the child - an ostracism and obloquy, significantly enough, in which the father does not share.”

“Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.”

Ifs May Done Beautiful Spirit Sin Kindness Good Work

Book:Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen

Source: Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen

“Everybody, whether or not he puts the question vocally, wants to know whether life has any meaning, what his relation is to 'whatever gods there be,' why he is here, what his destiny is, how sin and pain may be overcome, whether prayer matters, what lies beyond death for himself and his loved ones.”

Knows Want May Matter Pain Lying Prayer Sin Destiny Overcoming Relation Loved Ones

Author:Georgia Harkness

“You cannot stay the shell in its flight; after it has left the mortar, it goes on to its mark, and there explodes, dealing destruction all around. Just as little can you stay the consequences of a sin after it has been committed. You may repent of it, you may even be forgiven for it, but still it goes on its deadly and desolating way. It has passed entirely beyond your reach; once done, it cannot be undone.”

Way May Littles Has Beens Stills Done Left Sin Goes On Consequence Destruction Mark Committed Flight Shells Forgiven Repent Undone Mortar

Book:Moses the Law-giver

Source: Moses the Law-giver

“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

“Some well-meaning Christians tremble for their salvation, because they have never gone through that valley of tears and of sorrow, which they have been taught to consider as an ordeal that must be passed through before they can arrive at regeneration. To satisfy such minds, it may be observed, that the slightest sorrow for sin is sufficient, if it produce amendment, and that the greatest is insufficient, if it do not.”

Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan

“Sins may be forgiven through repentance, but no act of wit will ever justify them.”

May Sin Wit Justify Repentance Forgiven

Author:Thomas Sherlock

“At war a Russian man puts on a white shirt. He may live in sin, but he dies like a saint.”

Men May War Dies Sin White Saint Shirts White Shirts

Book:A Writer At War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945

Source: A Writer At War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945

“Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from Sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?”

Men Heart May Soul Winning Christ Sin Lord Break Plans Broken Pardon Happy Day

Author:Oscar Wilde

“While God is not the author of evil and He never prompts or condones sin, nothing occurs without His sovereign oversight. Others may choose to do evil deeds and God's people may suffer in the short term, but He will transform the evil intentions of evil people into opportunities for the enrichment of those in His care.”

People May Care Suffering Evil Opportunity Term Sin Intention Deeds Sovereign Short Term Prompts Evil People Enrichment Oversight

Book:Jesus: The Greatest Life of All

Source: Jesus: The Greatest Life of All

“You and your sins must separate or you and your God will never come together. No one sin may keep you; they must all be given up, they must be brought out like Canaanite kings from the cave and be hanged up in the sun.”

May Together Given Sin Sun Kings Gods Will Caves Given Up

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“Do not allow darkness and gloom to enter into your hearts. I want to give you a rule by which you may know that the spirit which you have is the right spirit. The Spirit of God produces cheerfulness, joy, light and good feelings. Whenever you feel gloomy and despondent and are downcast, unless it be for your sins, you may know it is not the Spirit of God which you have. Fight against it and drive it out of your heart. The Spirit of God is a spirit of hope; it is not a spirit of gloom.”

“Grieve only if you have committed a sin, but even in this case do not grieve too much, otherwise you may become desperate.”

Ifs May Soul Sin Cases Too Much Committed Grieving Desperate

Author:Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

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