Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.

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• Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

  

  Samuel Butler
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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.

  

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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.

  

  Barbara G. Walker
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• The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.

  

  Harold Warner
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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.

  

  Valerie Plame
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• The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.

  

  R. C. Sproul
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• Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.

  

  R. C. Sproul
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• Sin is cosmic treason

  

  R. C. Sproul
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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.

  

  Christina Aguilera
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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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  • Truth
  • Amazing

• 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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  • Favorite
  • Vanity

• All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, averice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape.

  

  Angus Wilson
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  • Fear
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• Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse.

  

  Umar
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  • 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.

  

  J. C. Ryle
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  • Blood
  • Sin

• 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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  • Sin
  • Rebirth

• It is the same with everything else, with food, with pleasures, with sleep; with everything there is a limit to what is necessary. After this "sin" begins. This is something that must be grasped, a "sin" is something which is not necessary.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff
  • Food
  • Sleep
  • Sin

• Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul. Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not things, and is one of the blackest qualities sin begets in the soul.

  

  William Penn
  • Soul
  • Hate
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• It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Men
  • Women
  • Femininity

• We know that death never skips or spares anybody and that no one ever returns. And yet we go on like the blind, who see as little at midday as in the pitch-dark night. We do not take these examples to heart; we do not realize that today or tomorrow our turn will come.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Heart
  • Death
  • Night

• Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Sin
  • Untouchability
  • Divine Biiks