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.

  

  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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• 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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  • Seeing

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

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Life
  • Sin
  • Against

• Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure
  • Sin

• Sin is cosmic treason

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Sin
  • Cosmic
  • Treason

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Women
  • Power

• It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Truth
  • Amazing

• The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Life
  • Sin
  • Burden

• Vanity: my favorite sin.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Sin
  • 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
  • Power
  • Fear
  • Effort

• Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse.

  

  Umar
  • Pain
  • Sin
  • Inspiring

• The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • God
  • 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
  • Doubt
  • Sin
  • Rebirth

• 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
  • Poverty
  • Sin
  • Shame

• The sin that now rises to memory as your bosom sin, let this first of all be withstood and mastered. Oppose it instantly by a detestation of it, by a firm will to conquer it, by reflection, by reason, and by prayer.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Prayer
  • Memories
  • Sin

• There was the man who seemed to be attempting to decieve his ball and lull it into a false sense of security by looking away from it and then making a lightning slash in the apparent hope of catching it off its guard.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Hope

• When I perform, I lose myself. I'm in total control of that stage. I don't think about anything. I know what I want to do from the moment I step out there and I love every minute of it.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Control
  • Stage

• The most effective executive branch officials try to help legislators develop explanations for the votes they are being asked to take.

  

  Robert Zoellick
  • Trying
  • Helping
  • Vote

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

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Sin
  • Untouchability
  • Divine Biiks