Quotes
Quotes about Sin
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me, If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea.
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead; It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
"Hope" is the thing with feathers- That perches in the soul- And sings the tunes without the words- And never stops- at all- .
Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.
Round-hoofed, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eye, small head, and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong, Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide: Look what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on so proud a back.
Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord; Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing instant in prayer; Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
At worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.
W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say "hullo." Say "hullo" and "how d'ye do," "How's the world a-usin' you?" . . . . W'en you travel through the strange Country t'other side the range, Then the souls you've cheered will know Who you be, an' say "hullo."
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
We are all just monkeys in business suits running around pretending to be executives.
Humanity is the sin of God.
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
He saw a cottage with a double coach-house, A cottage of gentility! And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility.
God hath sworn to lift on high Who sinks himself by true humility.
If I could be a bird, I'd be a Flying Purple People Eater because then people would sing about me and I could fly down and eat them because I hate that song.
I love to go to the schoolyard and watch the children jump and scream, but they don't know I'm using blanks.
I think a good gift for the President would be a chocolate revolverâ¦and since he is so busy, you'd probably have to run up to him real quick and give it to him.
Humor is not a postscript or an incidental afterthought; it is a serious and weighty part of the world's economy. One feels increasingly the height of the faculty in which it arises, the nobility of things associated with it, and the greatness of services it renders. - Oscar Firkins: Memoirs and Letters.
My mother was awarded the Serbian medal of freedom for raising 3 dysfunctional Croatian sons.
An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. â¢Michael Korda We ought to see far enough into a hypocrite to see even his sincerity. â¢G. K. Chesterton Often a noble face hides filthy ways. â¢Euripides The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.
Their only labour was to kill the time; And labour dire it is, and weary woe, They sit, they loll, turn o'er some idle rhyme, Then, rising sudden, to the glass they go, Or saunter forth, with tottering steps and slow.
Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
