Quotes
Quotes about Sin
When it was reported to General Washington that the army was frequently indulging in swearing, he immediately sent out the following order: The general is sorry to be informed that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing â a vice little known heretofore in the American army â is growing into fashion. Let the men and officers reflect 'that we can not hope for the blessing of heaven on our army if we insult it by our impiety and folly.'
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.
Vain? Let it be so! Nature was her teacher, What if a lovely and unsistered creature Loved her own harmless gift of pleasing feature. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.,
When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity- but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity. But I mean by "vanity" only that they appreciate their own worth. Without this kind of vanity they would not be great. And with vanity alone, of course, a man is nothing.
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
We do not despise all those who have vices, but we despise all those who have not a single virtue.
Many without punishment, none without sin.
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinnersâyour lecherous liars and your miserly drunkardsâwho dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
An isolated outbreak of virginity is a rash on the face of society. It arouses only pity from the married, and embarrassment from the single.
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.
And like a passing thought, she fled In light away.
I wonder if ever a song was sung but the singer's heart sang sweeter! I wonder if ever a rhyme was rung but the thought surpassed the meter! I wonder if ever a sculptor wrought till the cold stone echoed his ardent thought! Or, if ever a painter with light and shade the dream of his inmost heart portrayed!
My vocation is more in composition really than anything elseâbuilding up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Don't buy a single vote more than necessary.
Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and heart to this vote.
Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.
'Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.
A vow is a snare for sin.
No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country.
When it comes to finances, remember that there are no withholding taxes on the wages of sin.
