John Piper (John Stephen Piper) Quotes
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
Samuel Butler -
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 -
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 -
To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
Saint Ignatius -
The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.
Harold Warner -
The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance.
Paul Washer
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Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.
R. C. Sproul -
Sin is cosmic treason
R. C. Sproul -
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.
Christina Aguilera -
I don't know what to say, except it's Christmas and we're all in misery.
Beverly D'Angelo -
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
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If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn't be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.
Kanye West -
What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.
Alphonsus Liguori -
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 -
Like the wind that carries one ship east and another west, the law of autosuggestion will lift you up or pull you down according to the way that you set your sails of thought.
Napoleon Hill -
No partnership matters more. The relationship with the one you marry provides 90 percent of your happiness and 90 percent of your misery.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin, As sweet as clover-honey in its cell; Love is the password whereby souls get in To Heaven--the gate that leads, sometimes, to Hell.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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I'll tell you, I've seen the lightning flash. I've heard the thunder roll. I felt sin-breakers dashing, trying to conquer my soul. But I heard the voice of Jesus saying still to fight on.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Just like Marilyn Monroe is a lot of girls' idol, that's how I feel about Dorothy Dandridge. And she any Marilyn were very close friends. She went through a lot, and people told her that she couldn't do certain things, but she didn't let that bother her. She said in her mind that she was going to do them and that nothing was impossible, and she did it. It was so sad... She died from drugs, and drinking as well.
Janet Jackson -
Sin carries in it its own misery.
John Piper