“But I would like to think for a moment about a man who in the morning teaches his students that a false attribution of a Watteau drawing or an inaccurate transcription of a fourteenth-century epigraph is a sin against the spirit and in the afternoon or evening transmits to the agents of Soviet intelligence classified, perhaps vital information given to him in sworn trust by his countrymen and intimate colleagues. What are the sources of such scission? How does the spirit mask itself?” ThinkingMenDoeMomentsSpiritGivenSinTeachMorningCenturyInformationStudentsSourceDrawingAgentsEveningIntimateMaskAfternoonSovietColleaguesTransmitCountrymenAttributionEpigraphsTranscription Book:George Steiner: A Reader Source: George Steiner: A Reader
“Women have traditionally been either put on pedestals or damned as the source of all sexual temptation and sin. These are two sides of the same coin, since both place women in a nonhuman role. Playboy has opposed these warped sexual values and, in so doing, helped women step down from their pedestals and enjoy their natural sexuality as much as men.” MenTwoValuesEnjoyWomenSidesNaturalSinStepsRolesSourceSexualityTemptationCoinsMen WomenTwo SidesPedestalPlayboy Author:Hugh Hefner
“Worship is the submission of all our nature to God. It is the quickening of conscience by His holiness; the nourishment of mind with His truth; the purifying of imagination by His Beauty; the opening of the heart to His love; the surrender of will to His purpose - and all of this gathered up in adoration, the most selfless emotion of which our nature is capable and therefore the chief remedy for that self-centeredness which is our original sin and the source of all actual sin.” MindHeartSelfPurposeImaginationSinEmotionSourceWorshipCapableConscienceOriginalsSurrenderOpeningChiefsHolinessSelflessRemedySubmissionHis LoveAdorationNourishmentOriginal SinPurifyingSelf CenterednessCenterednessQuickeningWorship Music Book:Readings in St. John's Gospel ... Source: Readings in St. John's Gospel ...
“The urge to distribute wealth equally, and still more the belief that it can be brought about by political action, is the most dangerous of all popular emotions. It is the legitimation of envy, of all the deadly sins the one which a stable society based on consensus should fear the most. The monster state is a source of many evils; but it is, above all, an engine of envy.” ShouldStillsStatesActionPoliticalEvilBeliefFearWealthSinEmotionDangerousDangerSourceEnvyMonstersUrgesEnginesStableConsensusPolitical ActionDeadly Sins Author:Paul Johnson
“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.” MeanHas BeensChristianSufferingNationsCausesChristSinAtheismTeachingEffectsCrimeSourceConsequenceForgivingCommittedPositive AtheismDoctrineChiefsSinnerForgivenImmoralImmoralityPerniciousPremiumIniquityChristian NationForgiveness Of SinsNo Forgiveness Author:John Remsburg