Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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I'd love sloth. I wish sloth would come home and visit me once in a while. I don't consider laziness a sin at all.
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Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
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Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.
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To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
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Since St. Augustine announced that Eve - and, hence, collective woman - was responsible for original sin, rabid sexism has been a major pillar of patriarchal religious tradition.
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The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.
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The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.
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It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.
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The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent.
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Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.
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It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.
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Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.
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Drive-in, you guzzle gin, commit a little mortal sin.
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I do not know how to make a man think seriously about sin and judgment, and must look to the work of the Holy Spirit for any hint of such a working.
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It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.
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This sin weighs heavily upon the Body of Christ and will call down the judgment of God. In Germany there is an even greater sin weighing upon us Christians and that is the crime our nation has committed against Israel, God's chosen people. Six million Jews were killed; because of this the wrath of God is upon us. As Christians we are especially to blame. For when the terrible crime occurred and millions of Jews were tortured with inhuman cruelty and killed at the hands of German people, the Church in our country remained silent. The Christians did not stand up as the Danes did and protest the injustice. With the exception of a number of individuals the church members were not driven by the desire to help the Jews at all costs. Nor did they ring the church bells the night the synagogues were burnt down. The Church gave no reaction - an indication that she was dead. Because we were silent, we heaped guilt upon ourselves, and we were struck by the judgment that later descended upon our nation. Our churches were destroyed. Germans were killed by the thousands in bombings. Refugees thronged the streets, and the Iron Curtain divided our country.
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I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.
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In American culture we are supposed to take a pill when we're depressed or in grief as opposed to actually feeling.
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At the present time, the alternative is not between change or no change, but between change for the better and change for the worse.
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No use wishing now for any other sin.
