Cornelius Plantinga Quotes

Recalling and confessing our sin is like taking out the garbage: once is not enough.

Cornelius Plantinga

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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
  • Home
  • Sin
  • Visit

• 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
  • Sin
  • Paradise
  • Return

• To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Single
  • Sin
  • Reward

• 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
  • Question
  • Sin
  • Seeing

• Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Sin
  • Natural

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

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Life
  • Sin
  • Against

• 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

• Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.

  

  I. L. Peretz
  • Sin
  • Ugliness

• The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Sick
  • Dying
  • Sin

• Drive-in, you guzzle gin, commit a little mortal sin.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Sin
  • Dating
  • Gin

• Confession basically means saying the same thing about your sin as God says. So if you say you want to develop integrity, but you're not willing to face the rough parts and confess them, you won't get there.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • God
  • Mean
  • Integrity

• One night she told me to put out the garbage. I told her "you cooked it, you take it out".

  

  Jack Roy
  • She
  • Night
  • Told

• 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

• It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Sin
  • Silent
  • Protest

• Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.

  

  Aristotle
  • Time
  • God
  • Power

• 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
  • God
  • Thought
  • Sin

• It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Sin
  • Silly

• 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

• This sin weighs heavily upon the Body of Christ and will call down the judgment of God. In Germany there is an even greater sin weighing upon us Christians and that is the crime our nation has committed against Israel, God's chosen people. Six million Jews were killed; because of this the wrath of God is upon us. As Christians we are especially to blame. For when the terrible crime occurred and millions of Jews were tortured with inhuman cruelty and killed at the hands of German people, the Church in our country remained silent. The Christians did not stand up as the Danes did and protest the injustice. With the exception of a number of individuals the church members were not driven by the desire to help the Jews at all costs. Nor did they ring the church bells the night the synagogues were burnt down. The Church gave no reaction - an indication that she was dead. Because we were silent, we heaped guilt upon ourselves, and we were struck by the judgment that later descended upon our nation. Our churches were destroyed. Germans were killed by the thousands in bombings. Refugees thronged the streets, and the Iron Curtain divided our country.

  

  Basilea Schlink
  • Church
  • Sin
  • Crime

• I don't want to live life too cautiously. I mean, you can step off a curb and twist your ankle.

  

  Rickie Fowler
  • Step
  • Your
  • Ankle

• What I do usually is read the book first, for pleasure, to see if my brain starts connecting with it, as a movie. And then, if I say yes, I read it again, only this time I take a pen and, inside the book, I say, "Okay, this is a scene. I don't need this. I'm going to try this. I'm not going to take this." And then, I use that book like a bible and each chapter heading, I write a menu of what's in that chapter, in case I ever need to reference it. And then, I start to outline and write it. I get in there and it starts to evolve, based on having re-read it again.

  

  Richard LaGravenese
  • Writing
  • Pleasure
  • Evolve

• Recalling and confessing our sin is like taking out the garbage: once is not enough.

  

  Cornelius Plantinga
  • Sin
  • Garbage
  • Recalling