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“If people are innately saddled with certain sins and flaws, like selfishness, prejudice, sort-sightedness, and self-deception, then political reform would seem to be a waste of time.”

People Ifs Self Seems Political Certain Sin Waste Prejudice Reform Deception Selfishness Flaws Wasting Time Self Deception Political Reform

Author:Steven Pinker

“Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.”

Ifs Sin Waste Comfortable Uncomfortable Leisure Righteous Idleness

Book:The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

Source: The diaries of Sylvia Townsend Warner

“The talents lost--the moments run To waste--the sins of act, of thought, Ten thousand deeds of folly done, And countless virtues cherish'd not.”

Done Moments Running Lost Sin Virtue Talent Thousand Ten Waste Deeds Folly Cherish

Book:Matins and vespers: with hymns and occasional devotional pieces

Source: Matins and vespers: with hymns and occasional devotional pieces

“In zen, it is a cardinal sin to waste time. To waste time is to squander the here and now, which, if you think about it, is all that we have.”

Ifs Thinking Time Sin Waste Wasting Time Here And Now Cardinals

Author:Philip Toshio Sudo

“The further you go in writing the more alone you are. Most of your best and oldest friends die. Others move away. You do not see them except rarely, but you write and have much the same contact with them as though you were together at the café in the old days. You exchange comic, sometimes cheerfully obscene and irresponsible letters, and it is almost as good as talking. But you are more alone because that is how you must work and the time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you feel you have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.”

Ifs Feels Writing Sometimes Together Moving Dies Sin Talking Waste Letters Committed Contact Comic Irresponsible Old Days Obscene No Forgiveness Oldest Friends

Author:Ernest Hemingway

“To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.”

Action Sin Waste Shots Unnecessary Casualties

Book:Seven Pillars of Wisdom & The Evolution of a Revolt (Complete Edition with Original Illustrations and Maps): Lawrence of Arabia's Account and Memoirs of the Arab Revolt and Guerrilla Warfare during World War One

Source: Seven Pillars of Wisdom & The Evolution of a Revolt (Complete Edition with Original Illustrations and Maps): Lawrence of Arabia's Account and Memoirs of the Arab Revolt and Guerrilla Warfare during World War One

“A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.”

Men May Earth Sin Grief Waste Tragedy

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Hatred is always a sin, my mother told me. Remember that. One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk. I was struck by that and meant to try it, but knew I shouldn’t waste the milk.”

Trying Soul Remember Mother Black Sin White Waste Hatred Spread Your Soul Milk Ink

Book:A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994

Source: A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994

“Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue.”

Men Love Hate Order Sin Virtue Strange Waste Female Good Man Thirst Ugliness Bad Man Female Power

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.”

Ifs Sin Waste Committed No Forgiveness

Book:Conversations with Ernest Hemingway

Source: Conversations with Ernest Hemingway

“God wastes nothing - not even sin. The soul that has struggled and come through is enriched by it's experiences, and Grace does not merely blot out the evil past but in the most literal sense "makes it good."”

Doe Soul Inspiration Past Faith Evil Sin Grace Waste Christian Inspirational Literal

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers