Cornelius Plantinga Quotes
Recalling and confessing our sin is like taking out the garbage: once is not enough.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.
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The worst sin against stewardship is to waste your life.
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Sin is cosmic treason
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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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Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.
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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.
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Drive-in, you guzzle gin, commit a little mortal sin.
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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.
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One night she told me to put out the garbage. I told her "you cooked it, you take it out".
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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.
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It is a sin to be silent when it is your duty to protest.
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Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.
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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.
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It's silly not to hope. It's a sin he thought.
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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.
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There are no distant places any longer: the world is small and the world is one.
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We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.
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About a month ago, he didn't come to school and we had subs, and we were all wondering what was going on. We tried asking the school and they wouldn't tell us any information.
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Money alone can't bring you happiness, but money alone has not brought me unhappiness. I won't say my previous husbands thought only of my money, but it had a certain fascination for them.
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Recalling and confessing our sin is like taking out the garbage: once is not enough.
