“No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.” SaidSinPracticeSubjectsCatholicMortalsReliefHomosexualityDamnationForthcomingCatholic FaithMortal Sin Author:James McGreevey
“Something is funny, most of all, because it's true, and because the velocity of insight into this truth exceeds our normal standards. Something is funny because it's outside our accepted boundary of decorum. Something is funny because it defies our expectations. Something is funny because it offers a temporary reprieve from the hardship of seeing the world as it actually is. Something is funny because it is able to suggest gently that even the worst of our circumstances and sins is subject to eventual mercy.” WorldAbleSinSeeingWorstSubjectsCircumstancesOffersNormalStandardsExpectationsMercyInsightAcceptedBoundariesHardshipTemporaryExceedSeeing The WorldVelocityDecorumReprieve Author:Steve Almond
“But the present life should never be hated, except insofar as it subjects us to sin, although even that hatred should not properly be applied to life itself.” ShouldSinSubjectsHatredHatedPresent Life Book:Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life Source: Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life
“The prostitute is the scapegoat for everyone's sins, and few people care whether she is justly treated or not. Good people have spent thousands of pounds in efforts to reform her, poets have written about her, essayists and orators have made her the subject of some of their most striking rhetoric; perhaps no class of people has been so much abused, and alternatively sentimentalized over as prostitutes have been but one thing they have never yet had, and that is simple legal justice.” PeopleHas BeensMadeCareJusticeSinSimpleEffortClassWrittenOne ThingSubjectsPoetTreatedReformPoundsGood PeopleRhetoricEssayistsScapegoatOrators Author:Alison Roberta Noble Neilans
“It were better for a man to be subject to any vice than to drunkenness; for all other vanities and sins are recovered, but a drunkard will never shake off the delight of beastliness.” MenSinSubjectsVicesDelightVanityShakesDrunkennessDrunkards Author:Walter Raleigh
“Most people think that there is a monarchy, where God is the king and we are the subjects, and the subjects are inferior to this invisible king. But not only are we inferior, we are also stained by sin, and therefore, untrustworthy.” PeopleThinkingSinSubjectsKingsInvisibleInferiorsMonarchyUntrustworthy Author:Wayne Dyer
“When God calls a man, He does not repent of it. God does not, as many friends do, love one day, and hate another; or as princes, who make their subjects favourites, and afterwards throw theminto prison. This is the blessedness of a saint; his condition admits of no alteration. God's call is founded upon His decree, and His decree is immutable. Acts of grace cannot be reversed.God blots out His people's sins, but not their names.” PeopleMenDoeChristianHateNamesSinGraceConditionsSubjectsOne DayBlessingPrisonSaintChristian LifeRepentDecreeMany FriendsAlterationsChastisementBlessedness Book:All Things for Good Source: All Things for Good
“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.” MeanIdeasWholeFactsFormChristReligiousSinChristianityGraceSubjectsObjectsFollowingTheologyAbstractConceptionDiscipleshipSuperfluousAdherenceForgiveness Of SinsFollowing Christ Author:Dietrich Bonhoeffer