Iniquity Quotes - Page 3

• Though we are commanded to 'wash ourselves', to 'cleanse ourselves from sins', to 'purge ourselves from all our iniquities', yet to imagine that we can do these things by our own efforts is to trample on the cross and grace of Jesus Christ. Whatever God works in us by his grace, he commands us to do as our duty. God works all in us and by us.

  John Owen

  Jesus, Effort, Grace

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• It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.

  George Washington

  Brother, Children, Father

  George Washington (1847). “The Writings of George Washington: pt. II. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American revolution: (v. 3) June, 1775-July, 1776. (v. 4) July, 1776-July] 1777. (v. 5) July, 1777-July, 1778. (v. 6) July, 1778-March, 1780. (v. 7) March, 1780-April, 1781. (v. 8) April, 1781-December, 1783”, p.374

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• We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  God, Successful, Hypocrisy

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• False religion may prevail, iniquity may abound, the love of many may wax cold, the cross of Calvary may be lost sight of, and darkness, like the pall of death, may spread over the world; the whole force of the popular current may be formed to overthrow the people of God; but in the hour of greatest peril the God of Elijah will raise up human instrumentalities to bear a message that will not be silenced.

  Ellen G. White

  Sight, People, Darkness

  Ellen G. White (2015). “Prophets and Kings”, p.148, Simon and Schuster

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• In regeneration, the mind is enlightened in the knowledge of spiritual things... The will is renewed... The will is cured of its utter inability to will what is good. While the opening of the prison to them that are bound is proclaimed in the gospel , the Spirit of God comes to the prison-door; opens it; goes to the prisoner, and, by the power of his grace, makes his chains fall off; breaks the bond of iniquity, wherewith he was held in sin so as he could neither will nor do anything truly good; brings him forth into a large place.

  Thomas Boston

  Spiritual, Fall, Doors

  "Select Works of Thomas Boston: With a Memoir of His Life and Writings".

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• Val- I’m on Bourbon– (Acheron) I will not venture down that street of crass iniquities and plebeian horror, Acheron. It is the cesspit of humanity. (Valerius)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Humanity, Venture, Horror

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.91, St. Martin's Press

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• One must be patient like the earth. What iniquities are being perpetuated on her! Yet she quietly endures them all.

  Sarada Devi

  Earth, Patient, Endure

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• Our Father awaits us with great zeal and desire, and with love He will see us returning from afar, and He will look upon us with compassionate eyes, and we shall be dear to Him, and He will fall on our neck running and embrace us and kiss us with His Holy Love. He will not reproach us, and He will no longer remember our sins and iniquities, and all the holy angles and all His elect will begin to rejoice over us.

  Tikhon of Zadonsk

  Love, Running, Peace

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• Downstairs in the lounge, by the third pillar from the left, there sits an old lady with a sweet, placid, spinsterish face and a mind that has plumbed the depths of human iniquity and taken it all as in the day's work....where crime is concerned, she's the goods.

  Agatha Christie

  Sweet, Taken, Mind

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• And now, Anubis, I find you in this den of iniquity, this morass of questionable behavior, this...this--' 'School?

  Rick Riordan

  School, Anubis, Behavior

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• What is it to bring the man out of his sepulchre if you leave him dead? Why lead him into the light if he is still blind? We thank God, that he who forgives our iniquities also heals our diseases.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Light, Forgiving

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “All of Grace (Authentic Original Classic): An urgent Word with Those Who Are Seeking Salvation by the Lord Jesus Christ”, p.69, Destiny Image Publishers

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• God's justice stands forever against the sinner in utter severity. The vague and tenuous hope that God is 'too kind' to punish the ungodly has become deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. It hushes their fears and allows them to practice all pleasant forms of iniquity while death draws everyday nearer and the command to repent goes unregarded. As responsible moral beings, we dare not so trifle with our eternal future.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Practice, Justice, Forever

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1965). “The Knowledge of the Holy”, p.95, Fig

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• The proof of my Jewishness is that iniquities done by Israel pain me much more than iniquities perpetrated by any other country.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Country, Pain, Israel

  Interview with Marcelo Dimentstein, Alberto Senderey, Andy Spokoiny and Shira Shnitzer, leatid.org. February 2009.

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• God has nothing to say to the self-righteous. Unless you humble yourself before Him in the dust, and confess before Him your iniquities and sins, the gate of heaven, which is open only for sinners, saved by grace, must be shut against you forever.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Humble, Self, Dust

  Dwight L Moody (1897). “God's Good News”, p.36, Moody Publishers

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• Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin is forgiven.

  Isaiah

  Taken, Lips, Sin

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• Prayerless souls are Christless souls, Christless souls are Graceless souls and Graceless souls shall soon be damned souls. See your peril, you that neglect altogether the blessed privilege of prayer! You are in the bonds of iniquity, you are in the gall of bitterness. God deliver you, for Hisname's sake!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Prayer, Blessed, Soul

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• Numberless have been the systems of iniquity contrived by the great for the gratification of this passion in themselves; but in none of them were they ever more successful than in the invention and establishment of the canon and the feudal law.

  John Adams

  Success, Passion, Law

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.449

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• Loyalty is a word which has worked vast harm; for it has been made to trick men into being "loyal" to a thousand iniquities, whereas the true loyalty should have been to themselves - in which case there would have ensured a rebellion, and the throwing off of that deceptive yoke.

  Mark Twain

  Loyalty, Men, Should Have

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• Whatsoever then you have well in this world, when you recollect to have done any thing good, be very fearful about it, lest the prosperity granted you be your recompense for the same good. And when you behold poor men doing any thing blameably, fear not, seeing that perhaps those whom the remains of the slightest iniquity defiles, the fire of honesty cleanses.

  Pope Gregory I

  Honesty, Men, Fire

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• Our profession is good, if practiced in the spirit of it; it is damnable fraud and iniquity when its true spirit is supplied by a spirit of mischief-making and money catching.

  Daniel Webster

  Law, Spirit, Catching

  Daniel Webster, Edwin David Sanborn (1857). “The Private Correspondence of Daniel Webster”, p.222, Little, Brown

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• All writers on the science of policy are agreed, and they agree with experience, that all governments must frequently infringe the rules of justice to support themselves; that truth must give way to dissimulation, honesty to convenience, and humanity itself to the reigning of interest. The whole of this mystery of iniquity is called the reason of state.

  Edmund Burke

  Honesty, Government, Giving

  Edmund Burke (1858). “The Inherent Evils of All State Governments Demonstrated; Being a Reprint of ... “A Vindication of Natural Society.” With Notes and an Appendix, Etc”, p.17

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• Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Religious, People, Purpose

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Plain Tales from the Hills: Rudyard Kipling Collection – 40+ Short Stories (The Tales of Life in British India): In the Pride of His Youth, Tods' Amendment, The Other Man, Lispeth, Kidnapped, Cupid's Arrows, A Bank Fraud, Consequences, Thrown Away, Watches of the Night, The Gate of a Hundred Sorrows…”, p.44, e-artnow

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• Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.

  Josiah Stamp

  Banking, Usury, Sin

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• War in men's eyes shall be A monster of iniquity In the good time coming. Nations shall not quarrel then, To prove which is the stronger; Nor slaughter men for glory's sake; - Wait a little longer.

  Charles Mackay

  War, Eye, Men

  Charles Mackay (1846). “Voices from the Crowd: And Other Poems”, p.23

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• In the Israelite encampment, even though there were iniquities, sins, and wickedness, God did not see any of them because the blood of bulls and goats, which they offered up to the Lord daily, covered the children of Israel. How much more true that is for us today, we who are washed clean forever by the blood of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, our beautiful Savior.

  Joseph Prince

  Beautiful, Jesus, Children

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