Sin Quotes - Page 38

• I do not believe God is responsible for my sins, some people may. But I believe that my own weaknesses are father-filtered and just as much as God touched Jacob's hip and he walked with a limb the rest of his life, that I have certain emotional weaknesses that are there to keep me dependent on God.

  Rick Warren

  Father, Believe, Emotional

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper - TRANSCRIPT" by Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• Read the genealogy of Jesus, and you have to see how the four women in that genealogy God used their sins for His glory.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Four, Glory

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper". Interview with John Piper, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• What we can't do in heaven is sin and witness. And obviously God didn't leave us here to sin.

  Rick Warren

  Heaven, Witness

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper - TRANSCRIPT" by Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• The Bible portrays God as entering into covenants with people which, when broken, causes him grief and sorrow. The biblical prophet Hosea and God's using him as an illustration of how much Israel's idolatry costs God emotionally points to God's vulnerability. But also the incarnation of God in Jesus Christ who, even as God the Son, suffered for our sins, points to God's vulnerability.

  Roger E. Olson

  Jesus, Grief, Biblical

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. So to confess is to breathe in and to ask God to forgive me of my sins. And as we breathe out we breathe out the impure air and breathe in the pure air. I would say the pure air is knowing that God has forgiven us of our sins.

  Vonette Bright

  Air, Knowing, Forgive Me

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Often the Jesus-focused churches are leaning towards a 'social gospel' interpretation of the kingdom, and the 'Paul' churches are talking about being saved from sin and going to heaven. But when we understand both Jesus and Paul in their historical contexts within the first-century Jewish world, the issues become both more complex and ultimately (I believe) more clear.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Believe, Talking

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• I think Syriza and Podemos are very, very different from Sinn Féin in many ways, and so I wouldn't put all three together. I would say that Syriza and Podemos are movements which have come out of mass struggles. In the case of Podemos, directly out of tariqaliextremehuge mass movements in Spain, which started with the occupation of the square. In Greece, as a response to what the EU was doing there, punishing it endlessly, for the sins of its ruling elite.

  Tariq Ali

  Struggle, Thinking, Squares

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When I started going to church, my first memories are of the minister getting up and accusing us of being full of sin, though he didn't say why; then they would pass the collection plate, and I got it in my mind that this had to do with purification of the soul, that we were being invited to buy expiation from our sins. So I gave it all up. It was too nonsensical.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Memories, Soul, Mind

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• The most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of sin and divine punishment, it's warped and brainwashed countless millions.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Punishment, Church, Crime

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• It would be impossible to calculate the psychic damage concepts of sin has inflicted on generations of children who might have grown up into healthy, happy. productive, zestful human beings but for the burden of antisexual fear and guilt ingrained in them by the Church. This alone is enough to condemn religion.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Children, Psychics, Healthy

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• I believe that pain can be a rite of passage into learning. I believe that the worse thing that can happen is the sin of banality and comfort. Those things are in my movies, but also my movies are quite the fruit of somebody who defines himself as an agnostic.

  Guillermo del Toro

  Pain, Believe, Comfort

  Source: hollywoodchicago.com

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• I don't feel like I have a lot to offer in terms of an authoritative voice on a lot of political issue. I don't know how to fix the economy, or how to increase the number of jobs. That is not where I spent my life and thought and meditation. I guess I would like to think that the topics that I am discussing - the Gospel, the forgiveness of sins and the defeat of death - goes up river to all problem.

  Max Lucado

  Jobs, Thinking, Voice

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• There are certainly statistics which show that most people who become sociopaths, who become homicidal, who become child- abusers, have had a history of incredible suffering. This is what we call the transmission of family sin, in which these unconscious patterns get carried on for generations in a legacy of pain. When they are not brought to awareness and worked through, each generation just automatically enacts them.

  Connie Zweig

  Children, Pain, People

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• In Catholicism, you learn to worship a superior god that creates, who organizes and creates. And when you do novels, you have this illusion that you are following the model of the creator, that you are playing the creator who has to organize that. It is a vice and a sin, and I like to sin. I'm a vicious person.

  Carmen Boullosa

  Vices, Worship, Illusion

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Debt - like sin - implies that one party in the transaction didn't live up to expectations, at least in the moment, and has done something wrong.

  David Graeber

  Party, Expectations, Done

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• People don't have an ongoing relation unless it's a form of debt because everything is an exchange, so ongoing relationships are incomplete exchanges, and therefore one party is probably to blame - more likely than not, both are. Sociality itself seems to become like a matter of sin, and inherently wrong.

  David Graeber

  Party, People, Ongoing

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• As a Christian when I watched the people in Katrina they lost everything. I'm not just speaking about the Black people, I'm talking about White, Chinese, Oriental, whoever lost stuff. My heart went out to 'em. I said as a Christian it would be a sin before God for me to wear my gold around people, flashing it in their face and they don't have nothing. So I said never again would I wear my gold, I want people to know I have a heart of gold and not the gold around my neck.

  Mr. T

  Christian, Heart, Talking

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• I think the Buddhist ethic is clearer and more systematic in some ways. The Buddhist notion is that our chief problems are greed, hatred and delusion. Well, delusion is not much mentioned in the Christian tradition. In the West, we have underplayed the idea that our moral and spiritual troubles have to do with a lack of clarity or insight because original sin has dominated so much of our thinking. We tend to think that our troubles are caused by insufficient will power.

  Ninian Smart

  Christian, Spiritual, Buddhist

  Source: www.scottlondon.com

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• I don't know if there's any secret recipe. Just a lot of hard work. Pay attention to your constituents. I always had a great Iowa staff that did all my great constituent service work. And I found that people would forgive me for a lot of my "liberal sins" because I paid attention to the home front.

  Tom Harkin

  Home, Hard Work, People

  Source: progressive.org

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• Prayer offered without faith by a person that doesn't truly believe God exists will not be effective. Sin in our lives that we refuse to confess will also render our prayers ineffective.

  Anne Graham Lotz

  Prayer, Believe, God Exists

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I think that one thing that America is guilty of is not ever apologizing for the greatest sin of the country, which is slavery.

  Harry Lennix

  Country, Thinking, Slavery

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The concept of 'purgatory' is in Catholic Church dogma, and most black people are not Catholic - mostly their Christian realities focus on heaven or hell. Purgatory is for the expiation of sin, the fact that you are there, and not in hell, means you'll eventually work your way to heaven. The experience of this play, 'Small oak tree', and its psychological architecture, relies on its knowledge of that. Many black people believe that this life, within itself, is a way to work out whatever obligations we have, in order to get to a better place.

  Harry Lennix

  Christian, Believe, Mean

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• A real dictator usually isn't interested in money or women, just pure power. But Putin - I don't know about women, but it looks like he definitely likes money quite a bit. He's painted himself into a corner; he has committed so many sins and crimes, he has no choice but to hold on to power. No matter how he leaves, his policies will definitely be condemned as bad and wrong, and everything will be blamed on him, just as he now blames Yeltsin. It could be done by someone who, at this moment, is professing boundless love for Putin.

  Vladimir Voinovich

  Real, Choices, Done

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• God promises the Holy Spirit to us who believe in Christ, and the Spirit guides us in understanding. But within this life our understanding is limited, and contaminated by sin. Just because a person feels Spirit-led does not mean that he is. Pride remains, and our hearts easily deceive us.

  Vern Poythress

  Believe, Heart, Mean

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Sometimes differences arise partly from incomplete information. We are finite. And we should admit that there are cases of uncertainty. But often the differences become exacerbated because of sinful inclinations underneath the surface, which incline us to prefer our own ideas and not to submit to what is less comfortable. We must be cautious about accusing anyone else of sin. We don't know people's hearts. But we must also avoid being naïve about the subtlety of sin and the corrupting effects of sin on the mind - our own minds, not only the mind of the other fellow.

  Vern Poythress

  Heart, Mind, Sometimes

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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