R. C. Sproul 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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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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Artists should always think of themselves as cosmic instruments for storytelling.
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The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.
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There is no question that what we are seeing - the horrible advance of ISIS - goes back, if you will, to the original sin of the invasion of Iraq.
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Advocating the expansion of the powers of the state is treason to mankind, goddamnit!
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The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.
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There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.
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Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.
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I love red and I think it's more than just a color: It evokes an emotion. When you wear red, it makes you feel empowered and sexy. For me, sin is all about temptation and the power of seduction. Red Sin is a combination of those elements to make women feel irresistible.
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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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Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.
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There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.
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I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.
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Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought.
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Down you go, but all the while you feel suspended and buoyed as you somersault in slow motion like a somnolent tumbler pigeon, and sprawl supine on the eiderdown of the air, or lazily turn to embrace your pillow, enjoying every last instant of soft, deep, death-padded life, with the earth's green see-saw now above, now below, and the voluptuous crucifixion, as you stretch yourself in the growing rush, in the nearing swish, and then your loved body's obliteration in the Lap of the Lord.
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Sin is cosmic treason
