Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Samuel Butler
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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.
Kajol
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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.
W. H. Auden
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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.
Iris DeMent
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To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
Saint Ignatius
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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.
Barbara G. Walker
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The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.
Harold Warner
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The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.
R. C. Sproul
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It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.
Oswald Chambers
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The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.
Harold B. Lee
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Vanity: my favorite sin.
Al Pacino
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The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent.
J. C. Ryle
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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.
Saint Augustine
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It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.
Anselm of Canterbury
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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.
Oscar Wilde
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Drive-in, you guzzle gin, commit a little mortal sin.
Jimmy Buffett
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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.
Jim Elliot
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It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.
Abraham Lincoln
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In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso would be a Christian must also be a a nonconformist. Any Christian who blindly accepts the opinions of the majority and in fear and timidity follows a path of expediency and social approval is a mental and spiritual slave.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Truth is too important to kill it in the streets for the sake of peace.
R. C. Sproul
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A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.
Isaac Watts
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No use wishing now for any other sin.
Elvis Costello