Sin Quotes - Page 34

• I've seen so many horrible and awful results and consequences of people practicing alcoholism. It's murder, I've seen that. I've seen a lot of suicides, a lot of strange sins.

  Malachy McCourt

  Suicide, People, Awful

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

  Frank Dane

  Preacher, Ifs, Available

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• The most devastating thing though that biology did to Christianity was the discovery of biological evolution. Now that we know that Adam and Eve never were real people the central myth of Christianity is destroyed. If there never was an Adam and Eve there never was an original sin. If there never was an original sin there is no need of salvation. If there is no need of salvation there is no need of a Savior. And I submit that puts Jesus, historical or otherwise, into the ranks of the unemployed. I think that evolution is absolutely the death knell of Christianity.

  Frank Zindler

  Jesus, Real, Thinking

  "Why evolution hurts the church" by David Catchpoole, creation.com. October 26, 2014.

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• Envy makes people lonely, and brings them great suffering. It is horrible stuff to have in our flesh, and it is a sin we need to take deadly seriously.

  Esther Smith

  Lonely, People, Envy

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• To raise children you must have love and a wholesome understanding, and that is why a parent should pray fervently for their own salvation, so that their own sin does not get in the way. We can be saved from irritation and anger! Children can quickly sense if their parents are irritated, and then the children can be easily provoked and react stubbornly.

  Esther Smith

  Children, Irritation, Parent

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• The basis of Sufism is consideration of the hearts and feelings of others. If you haven't the will to gladden someone's heart, then at least beware lest you hurt someone's heart, for on our path, no sin exists but this.

  Javad Nurbakhsh

  Hurt, Heart, Feelings

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• The primary message of the Christian Church is that we were born in sin and we need to be rescued; we cannot rescue ourselves, so God comes to our rescue, pays the price of our sin and transforms us through the death of Jesus.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christian, Jesus, Pay The Price

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• I don't see Jesus as rescuing the fallen; I see Jesus as expanding the potential of life.
  The primary reason the old idea of rescuing the fallen is no good is that there never was a time when we fell from perfection into sin.

  John Shelby Spong

  Life, Religious, Jesus

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• There never was a time when we were created perfect and fell into sin and needed to be rescued. We are evolving people; we are not fallen people. We are not a little lower than the angels. We're a little higher than the apes. It's a very different perspective.

  John Shelby Spong

  Angel, People, Perfect

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• In my book, The Sins of Scripture, I traced the development of tribal religion, which included ideas like God's killing the Egyptians because they hated the chosen people. Then a God of love finally appears in the Book of Hosea, about the 8th century. A God of justice appears in the Book of Amos in the late 8th century or early 7th century.

  John Shelby Spong

  Book, Ideas, People

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• Some parts of the Bible are dreadful. In fact, my working title for The Sins of Scripture was "The Terrible Text of The Bible."

  John Shelby Spong

  Titles, Scripture, Facts

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• The Sins of Scripture is an interesting title; most people don't put sins and scripture together in the same title. It jars people.

  John Shelby Spong

  People, Interesting, Together

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• I always had a problem with original sin; I always had a problem with the exclusivity of the church and a lot of the things that the nuns taught me.

  Susan Sarandon

  Church, Taught, Problem

  Interview with George Saunders, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 27, 2016.

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• There is a great deal of sin that comes from homosexuals who believe their homosexuality is a sin.

  Andrew Solomon

  Believe, Homosexuality, Deals

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• One has to weigh all of one's values always in relative terms. On the upside, you get people who are not acting on their homosexual attraction, who are avoiding the sin of practicing homosexuality. On the downside, you have destroyed marriages, traumatized children, and dead people who have taken their own lives.

  Andrew Solomon

  Children, Taken, People

  Source: andrewsolomon.com

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• The American and the British armies liberated camps, there wasn't a single order of the day: Let's go and liberate the camp. They stumbled upon the camps. Same thing with the Russians, I asked the Colonel who liberated Auschwitz, they didn't, there wasn't a priority. But I feel that that was a mistake, it was a sin because they could have saved so many people and they didn't.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mistake, Army, Order

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• I'm very happy with the outcome of the vote ... I totally, totally support equal marriage in law. I don't want anybody in society feeling second best. I don't believe that being gay is a sin.

  Stephen Crabb

  Believe, Gay, Law

  "Brexit: Crabb and Fox out of Tory race after May wins first round of voting - As it happened" by Andrew Sparrow, Claire Phipps and Ben Quinn, www.theguardian.com. July 5, 2016.

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• Terrorism is one of the cardinal sins that the Koran threatens with hellfire.

  Fethullah Gulen

  Terrorism, Cardinals

  "Meet Fethullah Gülen, the World’s Top Public Intellectual". Foreign Policy Interview, foreignpolicy.com. August 4, 2008.

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• People say that envy is a deadly sin, but I disagree. I love watching a person do something that I can't. I find it to be incredibly motivating.

  Jonathan Sadowski

  People, Envy, Persons

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The greatest sin is fear and giving up.

  Nas

  Giving Up, Giving

  "Interview with Nas | The legendary rapper on never giving up and chasing your dreams". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I grew up in the Baptist Church, and going to church with my father; I remember being 8 years old, trying to determine whether I was really ready to give up sin, and for days I agonized.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Giving Up, Father, Years

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• God says, "Come out of her my people, that you be not partakers of her sins and her plagues, for her sins have reached unto heaven." We don't need the Democratic Party. We don't need the Republican Party. We can get a little from both of them, but Elijah Muhammad said we need to form our own political machine.! A machine that works for the oppressed: The oppressed Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, White.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Party, Yellow, White

  "The Breakfast Club Interview with the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan". www.finalcall.com. July 5, 2016.

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• I deal daily with chronic pain and, at times, my pain feels like a lemon that God "squeezes," revealing my sour attitude, peevish spirit, and tendency to complain or grumble. Did not God use my pain to expose my sin, I might - like many of us - not be aware of the sin of which I'm capable.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Pain, Attitude, Complaining

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• We've got to remember that the core of Christ's plan is to rescue us from sin. Our pain, poverty, and broken hearts are not his ultimate focus. True, he cares about these things, but they're merely symptoms of the real problem.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Pain, Real, Heart

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• God lets us continue to feel much of sin's sting through suffering while we're heading for heaven. This constantly reminds us of what we're being delivered from; exposing sin for the poison it is.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Heaven, Suffering, Poison

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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