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Source: The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators: Comprehending a Life of the Poet, and an Enlarged History of the Stage

“Old Khayyám, say you, is a debauchee;If only you were half so good as he!He sins no sins but gentle drunkenness,Great-hearted mirth, and kind adultery.But yours the cold heart, and the murderous tongue,The wintry soul that hates to hear a song,The close-shut fist, the mean and measuring eye,And all the little poisoned ways of wrong.”

Ifs Way Heart Kind Mean Littles Soul Eye Hate Song Sin Half Cold Tongue Gentle Fists Adultery Hearted Drunkenness Measuring Mirth Cold Heart

Author:Omar Khayyam

“Religion and science have nothing to do with each other, they're about different things, science is about the way the world works and religion is about [...] miracles. [...] And in any case, if you ask most ordinary people in church or in a mosque why they believe, it's almost certainly got something to do with the belief that God does wonderful things, that God intervenes, that God heals the sick, that God answers prayers, God forgives sins.”

“Integrity... does not mean sinless, but it does describe a person who by God's grace "sin less."”

Mean Persons Doe Sin Grace Integrity God's Grace

Author:Sam Storms

“Thou shalt not, it is said, make unto thee any graven image of God. The same commandment should apply when God is taken to mean the living part of every human being, the part that cannot be grasped. It is a sin that, however much it is committed against us, we almost continually commit ourselves--Except when we love.”

Love Should Humans Mean Said God Human Beings Sin Taken Committed Commit Thee God Love Commandments God Image

Book:Max Frisch: Novels, Plays and Essays

Source: Max Frisch: Novels, Plays and Essays

“To be justified means more than to be declared "not guilty." It actually means to be declared righteous before God. It means God has imputed or charged the guilt of our sin to His Son, Jesus Christ, and has imputed or credited Christ's righteousness to us.”

Mean Jesus Christ Sin Son Jesus Christ Guilt Guilty Righteousness Righteous Justified Not Guilty

Book:Transforming Grace

Source: Transforming Grace

“We all end up living secret lives. We create what we are willing to admire and admiring what we shouldn't confess to the secret ofour own sin, our own insufficiency, our own sadness. We all end up taking our secrets into the world and handing them over to strangers, only to realize it's often too late to claim them back. The very nature of time passing is sad beyond words. Memories mean they're gone.”

World Mean Ends Time Realizing Memories Sin Secret Gone Sadness Willing Late Claims Stranger Passing Admire Passings Too Late Time Passing Time Passes Secret Life Admiring Insufficiency

Author:Alexander Theroux

“Grace is not against good works! It simply does not bless on the basis of good works. We receive blessing from God based solely on the merits of His Son--blessings freely given to us in Christ and nowhere else. The completeness that is in Christ mean deliverance from trying to 'be good' and 'do right' in order to be accepted by God.”

“Repentance means a change of mind. Formerly, I thought sin as a pleasant thing, but now I have changed my mind about it. Formerly, I thought the world an attractive place, but now I know better. Formerly I regarded it miserable business to be a Christian, but now I think differently. Once I thought certain things delightful, now I think them vile. Once I thought other things utterly worthless, now I think them most precious. That is a change of mind, and that is repentance.”

Thinking Knows World Mind Mean Christian Certain Sin Changed Miserable Attractive Pleasant Repentance Delightful Worthless I Have Changed Pleasant Things Mind Changing

Author:Watchman Nee

“To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged.”

Feels May Mean Choices Sin Remains Guilt Guilty Ethical

Author:W. H. Auden

“This fact, that the opposite of sin is by no means virtue, has been overlooked. The latter is partly a pagan view, which is content with a merely human standard, and which for that very reason does not know what sin is, that all sin is before God. No, the opposite of sin is faith.”

Knows Humans Mean Doe Has Beens Reason Facts Sin Views Virtue Standards Opposites Latter Pagan Overlooked

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Non-co-operation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented.”

Mean Helping Sin Accepting Operations Sinner Refusal

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“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

“The Holy Spirit acts mystically through the spiritual father, and then when you go out from your spiritual father, the soul feels her renewal. But if you leave your spiritual father in a state of confusion, this means that you did not confess purely and did not forgive your brother all of his sins from your heart.”

Ifs Inspirational Feels Heart Mean Soul States Christian Spiritual Spirit Father Religious Sin Brother Holy Forgiving Confusion Holy Spirit Orthodox Renewal Your Brother

Author:Silouan the Athonite

“We have such a law: If you forgive, it means that God has forgiven you; but if you do not forgive your brother, it means that your sin remains with you.”

Ifs Inspirational Mean Christian Law Religious Sin Brother Remains Forgiving Orthodox Forgiven Your Brother

Author:Silouan the Athonite

“Abide in Jesus, the sinless One - which means, give up all of self and its life, and dwell in God's will and rest in His strength. This is what brings the power that does not commit sin.”

Giving Mean Doe Self Christian Jesus Sin Giving Up Gods Will Commit Abiding

Author:Andy Murray

“By salvation I mean not barely according to the vulgar notion deliverance from hell or going to heaven but a present deliverance from sin a restoration of the soul to its primitive health its original purity a recovery of the divine nature the renewal of our souls after the image of God in righteousness and true holiness in justice mercy and truth.”

Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley

“Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness. That promise enslaves us until we believe that God is more to be desired than life itself (Psalm 63:3). Which means that the power of sin's promise is broken by the power of God's.”

Believe Heart Mean Sin Duty Broken Promise Satisfied Power Of God Psalms

Book:Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God

Source: Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God

“Don't ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future.”

Thinking Mean Past Sin Our Future Our Past Your Future Your Past No Hope

Author:John Piper

“The assurance of His total forgiveness of our sins through the blood of Christ means we don't have to play defensive games anymore. We don't have to rationalize and excuse our sins. We can call sin exactly what it is, regardless of how ugly and shameful it may be, because we know that Jesus bore that sin in His body on the cross.”

Knows May Mean Play Body Games Jesus Christ Sin Blood Forgiveness Crosses Excuse Ugly Bores Assurance Shameful Rationalize

Author:Jerry Bridges

“Discipleship means adherence to Christ and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An abstract theology, a doctrinal system, a general religious knowledge of the subject of grace or the forgiveness of sins, render discipleship superfluous, and in fact exclude any idea of discipleship whatsoever, and are essentially inimical to the whole conception of following Christ....Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.”

“Following Jesus means taking up one's own cross to accompany him on his path, an uncomfortable path that is not one of success or earthly glory, but which leads to true freedom, the freedom from selfishness and sin.”

Mean Jesus Sin Path Glory Crosses Following Selfishness Uncomfortable Accompany Following Jesus True Freedom

Author:Pope Francis

“Augustine says that we may, out of our dead sins, make stepping stones to rise to the heights of perfection. What did he mean by that? He meant that the memory of our falls may breed in us such a humility, such a distrust of self, such a constant clinging to Christ as we could never have had without the experience of our own weakness.”

May Mean Self Fall Christ Memories Sin Humility Weakness Stones Perfection Constant Height Distrust Clinging Stepping Stones Augustine

Author:James Stalker

“We have resorted to every means to win back the position that Adam lost. We have tried through education, through philosophy, through religion, through governments to throw off our yoke of depravity and sin. All our knowledge, all our inventions, all our developments and ambitious plans move us ahead only a very little before we drop back again to the point from which we started. For we are still making the same mistake that Adam made - - we are still trying to be king in our own right, and with our own power, instead of obeying God's law.”

“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.”

Heart Mean Long Hard Spirit Grows Religious Sin Grace Mercy Abuse Harder Neglect Customs Theologian Puritan

Author:Richard Baxter

“To obtain salvation we must tremble at the thought of being lost, and tremble not so much at the thought of hell, as of sin, which alone can send us thither. He who dreads sin avoids dangerous occasions, frequently recommends himself to God, and has recourse to the means of keeping himself in the state of grace. He who acts thus will be saved; but for him who lives not in this manner it is morally impossible to be saved.”

Mean States Lost Sin Hell Grace Impossible Dangerous Salvation Saved Occasions Dread Recourse

Book:The Saint Alphonsus de Liguori Collection [30 Books]

Source: The Saint Alphonsus de Liguori Collection [30 Books]

“And speaking of sex, the Immaculate Conception does not mean Jesus was conceived in the absence of sex. It means Mary was conceived without Original Sin. That's all it has ever meant. And according to the tabloids, Mary is apparently the only one who can make such a claim. The Jesus thing is called virgin birth.”

Mean Doe Jesus Sex Sin Birth Claims Originals Absence Conception Mary Virgins Tabloids Original Sin Immaculate Virgin Birth Immaculate Conception

Book:The Best of Brain Droppings

Source: The Best of Brain Droppings

“Every day I get a choice. I can choose to go God's way or I can choose to go my own way or Satan's way or if I walk out of this door I don't know that I blame myself if my choice. .. because the bottom line is I want what I want what I want. ... People ask me what the greatest sin is. I feel the greatest sin is to want to be God: Pride, I want my own way. What it means to be a follower of Jesus Christ - give as much of yourself as you understand to as much of Jesus as you understand at that moment.”

People Ifs Knows Way Want Giving Feels Mean I Can Moments Choices Asks Jesus Christ Lines My Own Sin Walks Doors Pride Jesus Christ Blame Bottom Ask Me Satan That Moment Followers Bottom Line

Author:Rick Warren

“Thus the call to follow Christ always means a call to share the work of forgiving men their sins. Forgiveness is the Christlike suffering which it is the Christian's duty to bear.”

Men Mean Christian Suffering Christ Sin Share Duty Bears Forgiving

Book:The Cost of Discipleship

Source: The Cost of Discipleship

“I think it's for me with regards to this issue I believe in justification at the point of salvation; I believe in sanctification at the point of salvation. That doesn't mean that we don't continue to mature as believers in Christ. But I believe that we are justified and we are sanctified. But sin resides, the power of sin resides in our flesh. It will always try us and it was always tempt us and therefore we always need to be submitting our mind, will and emotions to the lordship of Jesus Christ.”

“If you talk about sin, you don't have to use the first person singular, but speak out of that part of yourself which knows what it means to become estranged from people you love. Speak in your own voice about things that you in your own life have in one way or another experienced.”

People Ifs Knows Way Firsts Mean Persons Use Speak Voice Sin One Way First Person Speaks Out

Author:Frederick Buechner

“Sin is one thing but instinctive reaction or passion is another. These are our reactions: pride, anger, sexual indulgence, hate, greed, and so on. The corresponding sins are the gratification of these passions: when a man acts and brings into corporeal reality those works which were suggested to him by his desires. It is impossible to exist without desires arising, but not to give way to them is by no means impossible.”

Men Way Giving Mean Reality Christian Desire Hate Passion Sin Impossible One Thing Pride Greed Reactions Orthodox Gratification Indulgence Orthodox Christian Corresponding

Book:Discourses and Sayings

Source: Discourses and Sayings

“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.”

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