Beginning a short series on sin: Sin is nothing else than that the creature willeth otherwise than God willeth, and contrary to Him. ... Theologia Germanica March 10, 1998 Continuing a short series on sin: I inquired what iniquity was, and found it to be no substance, but the perversion of the will, turned aside from Thee, O God, the Supreme, towards these lower things. ... The Confessions of St. Augustine March 11, 1998 Continuing a short series on sin: In case our sins have been public and scandalous, both reason and the practice of the Christian Church do require that when men have publicly offended they should give public satisfaction and open testimony of their repentance.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES God may not accept a person to forgive him his sins, without an atonement, else he must give free li... JOHN WYCLIFFE Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Virgin Mary Continuing a short series on prayer: T... ST. TERESA Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Continuing a series on the person of Jesus: Jesus Christ suffered and died to sanctify death and s... BLAISE PASCAL Continuing a short series on the Bible: A man who is well-grounded in the testimonies of the Scr... ST. JEROME Continuing a short series on sin: Evil is the soul's choice of the not-God. The corollary is that ... DOROTHY L. SAYERS Commemoration of Martin Luther, Teacher, Reformer, 1546 Continuing a short series on prayer: I h... MARTIN LUTHER Continuing a short series on forgiveness: With this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, ... CHARLES SIMEON The Christian does not avoid sin to achieve salvation, but rather salvation brings him to a desire n... CRISS JAMI The self-centered regret which a man feels when his sin has found him out -- the wish, compounded of... JAMES DENNEY There must be a constant and increasing appreciation that though sin still remains it does not have ... JOHN MURRAY In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 Augustine shows clearly the religious characte... PAUL TILLICH Continuing a short series on forgiveness: "The law of Jehovah is perfect, restoring the soul" (P... JIM ELLIOT If you have read this far in the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans - and I certainly hope you have... LEMONY SNICKET Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Ab... JOHN TILLOTSON For in that perfect garden when one day entered sin, An animal was murdered for garments made o... JOYCE RACHELLE Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647 Continuing a short series on the Bi... J. I. PACKER Continuing a Lenten series on prayer: The primary object of prayer is to know God better; we and o... NOTEBOOKS Once the sin against God was the greatest sin; but God died, and these sinners died with him. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you "little lower than the ange... JOSEPH ALLEINE Feast of Nicholas, Bishop of Myra, c.326 We cannot understand the depth of the Christian doctrine... D. D. WILLIAMS Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics: A certain group of scholars, mostly ... G. I. BONNER You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Nothing cuts the nerve of the desire to pursue holiness as much as a sense of guilt. On the contrary... JERRY BRIDGES Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601 Beginning a short series on the Bible: ... ROBERT P. LIGHTNER I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON If a little sin from the beginning caused such great havoc to the world, and you think your little s... KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL Is freedom of thought and speech to become a mortal sin again?
Powerful personalities within the loc... EVARIST BARTOLO Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH [...]we must ask ourselves whether we have not often been deceiving ourselves with our confession of... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Repentance is necessary because it shows the person how evil their sin is. True repentance leads to ... NORM TOMLINSON We shouldn't determine what is sin and not. If God's word declares that it's a sin; then it is. The ... NORM TOMLINSON Never doubt God in the darkness what he has given us in the light. FRANCINE RIVERS God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he c... JOHN PIPER Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Abb... DANIEL D. WILLIAMS We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself,... C.S. LEWIS I learned the first rule of repentance: that repentance requires greater intimacy with God than with... ROSARIA CHAMPAGNE BUTTERFIELD Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you ha... CRAIG GROESCHEL The wrd of God will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Word of God. UNKNOWN Feast of Chad, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of Lichfield, Missionary, 672 Continuing a short series ... CHARLES WESLEY Its one thing to forsake sin and quiet another to be forsaken by sin because to abstain from sin whe... STEPHEN .R. ANYAEGBU Continuing a short series of testimonies on the Scriptures: In holy Scripture is fully contained... JAMES MONTGOMERY BOICE The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS God has made provision for our sin in Christ. So when we struggle to believe and obey, we should run... MATT CHANDLER I wondered how it could be that people could love God and hate one another. JULIE ORRINGER But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin inclu... REGGIE WHITE A day of grace is yet held out to us. Both North and South have been guilty before God; and the Chri... HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Continuing a short series on the Bible: Never was a book so full of incredible sayings -- everywh... AMY CARMICHAEL It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all. MOLI It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all. MOLIERE The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn't sin but wants t... CRISS JAMI I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA What is sin? It is the glory of God not honored. The holiness of God not reverenced. ... JOHN PIPER And she didn't once say anything about this being a sin. It used to be I got the word sin slapped in... HAN NOLAN My creed on the subject of slavery is short. Slavery per se is not sin. It is a social condition ord... SAMUEL MORSE The moment you have a self at all, there is a possibility of putting yourself first - wanting to be ... C.S. LEWIS Why is it that it is often easier for us to confess our sins to God than to a brother? God is holy a... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Feast of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Blessed Virgin Mary The fall was simply this, that so... ANDREW JUKES Continuing a short series on topics of Christian apologetics: In the rare cases where faith appea... E. L. MASCALL Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 If afore us were laid together all the pain... JULIANA OF NORWICH The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so ma... JOHANN ARNDT But that's not how God views the cross, Jake. His wrath wasn't an expression of the punishment sin d... WAYNE JACOBSEN AND DAVE COLEMAN Men perish with whispering sins--nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that the... JOHN DONNE It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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JOHN ROBERTS Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo... JOHN NOBLE Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s... DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th... JOHN ELWAY This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war... JOHN TYLER Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. JOHN LENNON Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. JOHN JAY Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. JOHN LOCKE High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ... JOHN MAYER When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. 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JOHN CLAYTON We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re... JOHN CLAYTON The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ... JOHN CLAYTON Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f... JOHN CLAYTON How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. JOHN BURROUGHS You wouldn't do something for a receiver to catch the ball if the quarterback couldn't throw... JOHN MADDEN I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'... ELTON JOHN The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ... JOHN LEGEND I have learned in fashion to be a little savage. JOHN FAIRCHILD Perhaps they thought I was on a fact-finding mission, never for one moment thinking that a man of my... 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JOHN WOODEN The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. JOHN MILTON I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i... JOHN GLENN The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir... JOHN HEYWOOD Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. JOHN HEYWOOD Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? JOHN HEYWOOD When all candles be out, all cats be grey. JOHN HEYWOOD Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. JOHN CIARDI It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad y... JOHN CIARDI What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ... JOHN CIARDI Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it! JOHN CIARDI A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students. JOHN CIARDI Poetry lies its way to the truth. JOHN CIARDI Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen. JOHN CIARDI Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character. JOHN CIARDI The day will happen whether or not you get up. JOHN CIARDI You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone. JOHN CIARDI Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav... JOHN CIARDI The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it. JOHN CIARDI With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ... JOHN CENA The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi... 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