Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.
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Some might argue that the current generation seems uninterested in Christianity because they want to avoid issues like sin and repentance, but I don’t think that’s the case. I think people are hungry for Jesus, but they are starting to realize they have been fed a cheap American version, and they are rightly rejecting this counterfeit. Their rejection should be seen not as a rejection of Jesus, but a rejection of obscured versions of him. People are tired of being fed a watered-down version of Jesus. People are tired of an American Jesus. They want something that’s more…
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There is something glamorous to me in taking a bit of a beating and keeping on going.
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Still searching for those golden moments. They’re out there and I will find them. Plus, I have a great band and we all get along very well. It makes it fun to be on stage. Besides, I don’t know how to do anything else.
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In retrospect, I think maybe Audrey Hepburn was going to talk to me about doing something for UNICEF. I was so overwhelmed to just even be in her presence and I was very young, but it was really special and unforgettable.
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No use wishing now for any other sin.
