Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes
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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 -
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 -
To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
Saint Ignatius -
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 -
The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.
Harold Warner -
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 -
The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.
Harold B. Lee -
Vanity: my favorite sin.
Al Pacino -
The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent.
J. C. Ryle -
It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.
Anselm of Canterbury -
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 -
While we are committing sin we may, perhaps, succeed in putting away all thought of God, and persuade ourselves that, because we have forgotten Him, therefore He neither sees nor regards us. But when He comes forth for judgment this delusion is no longer possible: there is no escape: there may not even be delay: we must, however unprepared, meet Him face to face.
G. H. Pember -
To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'
Francis Bacon -
Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.
Florynce Kennedy -
Sin will pluck on sin.
William Shakespeare
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Even if the project requires you to have all the ducks in a line, I can't do that. I don't create way.
Erykah Badu -
The secret to being successful is to find a way to bring yourself through, even in your stories. People are looking for the essence of your truth. When you can bring your own truth to it, that's when it works.
Oprah Winfrey -
No use wishing now for any other sin.
Elvis Costello