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

• 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

• Ugliness is the greatest of all sins.

  

  I. L. Peretz
  • Sin
  • Ugliness

• 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 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

• Except a man fear the Lord, he is unable to renounce sin.

  

  Ambrose
  • Fear
  • Sin
  • Renounce

• A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.

  

  Douglas Jerrold
  • Time
  • World
  • Morning

• We have an army far better adapted to attack than to defend. Let us fight at advantage before we are forced to fight at disadvantage.

  

  J. E. B. Stuart
  • War
  • Fighting
  • Army

• Don't be afraid to face the facts, and never lose your ability to ask the questions: Why? and How?

  

  Immanuel Velikovsky
  • Facts
  • Face
  • Afraid

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

  

  Cornelius Plantinga
  • Sin
  • Garbage
  • Recalling