Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it. (Isaiah 13:9)
Sin Quotes
Sin cannot tear you away from him (Christ), even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many murders.
It is all over with priests and gods when man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the forbidden as such – it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, seed of all sin, the original sin. This alone is morality. ‘Thou shalt not know’ – the rest follows.
No man treats a car as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin; he does not say ‘you are a wicked motorcar and I shall not give you any more petroleum until you go.’ He attempts to find out what […]
First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it.
In some sort of crude sense which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
Sin is geographical.
We are too Christian really to enjoy sinning, and too fond of sinning really to enjoy Christianity. Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.
Lust, Pride, Sloth, and Gluttony, or, as we call them these days, “getting in touch with your sexuality,” – “raising your self-esteem,” – “relaxation therapy,” and “being a recovered bulimic.”
The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.
