Browsing Quotes With Tag: sin (24)
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Most of us are loaded with Original Sin, but a surprising number of us – not me, God knows – are loaded with Original Virtue. Ain’t that sweet?
Speaker: Kurt VonnegutSource: If This Isn't Nice, What Is?Posted: 27 Jun 2014 at 2:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Satan need not get everyone to be like Cain or Judas . . . He needs only to get able men . . . to see themselves as sophisticated neutrals.
Speaker: Neal A. MaxwellSource: Deposition of a Disciple (1976), 88Posted: 03 Jan 2013 at 7:38 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Guilt is to the Spirit what pain is to the body. If you are playing basketball and come down on an ankle, you feel pain. The message is that you had better quit doing this behavior. You are going to damage yourself. If you are doing something wrong spiritually, you feel guilt. The message is that you had better stop this or you will further damage yourself spiritually—and you may even die spiritually if you don’t stop.
Speaker: Todd B. ParkerPosted: 07 May 2012 at 11:28 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Sin is not harmful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.
Speaker: Benjamin FranklinSource: http://findquotes.com/Posted: 02 Jul 2009 at 11:25 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
And secondly, a teenager who pretends to be an adult is still a teenager. If you imagine that getting high at a party and sleeping around is going to propel you into a state of full adulthood, that’s like you thinking that dressing up as an Indian is going to make you an Indian. And thirdly, it’s a really weird way of looking at life to want to become an adult by imitating everything that is most catastrophic about adulthood… Where I’m concerned, just seeing my mother shooting up with her anti-depressants and sleeping tablets has been enough to inoculate me for life against that sort of substance abuse. Lastly, teenagers think that they’re adults when in fact they’re imitating adults who never really made it into adulthood and who are running away from life. It’s pathetic.
Speaker: Muriel BarberySource: the Elegance of the HedgehogPosted: 25 Jun 2009 at 7:54 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who believe themselves sinners; the sinners who believe themselves righteous.
Speaker: Blaise PascalPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:20 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Prayer keeps a man from sin, and sin keeps a man from prayer.
Speaker: Brigham YoungPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is one thing to be tempted,
And another thing to fall.Speaker: William ShakespearePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 3:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Whoever else suffers, every sin is against God, for it tends to frustrate the program and purposes of the Almighty. Likewise, every sin is committed against the sinner, for it limits his progress and curtails his development.
Speaker: Spencer W. KimballPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
[Satan] is a master at making sin appealing to the undecided… when you really understand who you are, it will not be difficult to resist Satan’s temptations.
Speaker: Richard G. ScottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:41 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
No one of us is less treasured or cherished of God than another… He loves each of us – insecurities, anxieties, self-image, and all – He cheers on every runner, calling out that the race is against sin, not against each other.
Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 12:23 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When we understand who God is, who we are, how He loves us, and what His plan is for us, fear evaporates. When we get the tiniest glimpse of these truths, our concern over worldly things vanishes. To think we actually fall for Satan’s lies that power, fame, or wealth is truly important is laughable – or would be were it not so sad.
Speaker: John H. GrobergPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 10:52 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Have you noticed how Satan works to capture the mind and emotions with flashing images, blaring music, and the stimulation of every physical sense to excel? He diligently strives to fill life with action, entertainment, and the stimulation so that one cannot ponder the consequences of his tempting invitations.
Speaker: Richard G. ScottPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:46 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Please spare me your speeches about ‘that’s just the way I am.’ I’ve heard that from too many people who wanted to sin and call it psychology.
Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
For anyone out there seeking the courage to repent and change, I remind you that the Church is not a monastery for the isolation of perfect people. It is more like a hospital provided for those who wish to get well.
Speaker: Jeffrey R. HollandPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:15 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I am convinced that in the long run no one can hurt another without the other’s consent; that is, hurt him in a deeply significant, personal, internal sense. This is because we always have the power to choose a response to what someone else does to us. This may be the reason why failure to forgive someone else is a greater sin than that which he has done to us. That is, it causes more damage to the unforgiving one – a damage in the mind and heart – than that caused by what the other person may do to him externally.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We simply can’t repent of our sins unless we repent of sinning. Unless we change our lifestyle by rooting gout of our nature these deeply-embedded habits and dispositions, we will continue on in a self-deceiving circular process of making and breaking resolutions to change and improve. In other words, we need to change our method of changing ourselves. We need a power source to help us, one which is stronger and more penetrating than the strength and depth of these habits.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:52 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
We are exhausted far more from the tension of internal disharmony – not doing what we know we should – than from hard, unremitting work. And, naturally, the very effort to escape such tension – pleasure-seeking, self-indulgence, escapism – produces more tension.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:47 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A good percentage of those who left the Church in this dispensation went out confessing the sins of others – and in the name of God, at that.
Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Despair is a greater sin than any of the sins which provoke it.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:42 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!