Sinning Quotes - Page 5

• No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.

  Daniel Defoe

  Men, Evil, Design

  Daniel Defoe (2016). “The Complete Adventures of Robinson Crusoe – 3 Books in One Volume (Illustrated): The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe & Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe”, p.568, e-artnow

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• There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.

  Henry James

  Beauty, Beautiful, Useless Things

  Henry James (2016). “Italian Hours”, p.192, Youcanprint

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• It is hard to carry a full cup without spilling, and a full estate without sinning.

  Thomas Watson

  Cups, Wealth, Estates

  Thomas Watson (1838). “A body of practical divinity, consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster: with a suppl. of some sermons on several texts of Scripture”, p.452

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• My Paradise: With Christ. Not sinning. No pain. New earth. Precious in that order.

  John Piper

  Pain, Order, Earth

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• Fatherhood has taught me when it's too quiet my kids are usually sinning. God the Father knows the same. Are you praying?

  Mark Hart

  Father, Kids, Taught

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.35, Franciscan Media

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• It is impossible to get anywhere without sinning against reason.

  Albert Einstein

  Impossible, Reason

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• If we make provision for sinning tomorrow, we will be sinning tomorrow.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Tomorrow, Provision, Ifs

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• When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.

  Timothy Keller

  Pride, Trying, Use

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• My aim is to lay bare and proclaim the crying and horrible guilt of the bloody doctrine of persecution as one of the most seditious, destructive, blasphemous, and bloodiest in any or all the nations of the world, notwithstanding the many fine veils, pretenses, and colors of not persecuting Christ Jesus, but heretics; not God's truth or servants, but blasphemers and seducers; not persecuting men for their conscience, but for sinning against their conscience; and like specious reasonings to justify the cruelty of intolerance.

  Roger Williams

  Jesus, Men, Color

  Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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• If God wanted to create life and create humans, it would be slightly odd that he should choose the extraordinarily roundabout way of waiting for 10 billion years before life got started and then waiting for another 4 billion years until you got human beings capable of worshipping and sinning and all the other things religious people are interested in.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Years, People

  Source: inters.org

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• Jesus Himself was criticized. He wasn't a glutton and drunkard, but He was accused of being those things. Why? Because He went to parties where people ate and drank, and some people probably were at those parties who were drunkards and gluttons. But you don't have to be sinning just because you're in in an environment of happiness.

  Randy Alcorn

  Jesus, Party, People

  Source: www.patheos.com

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