Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes
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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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The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
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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.
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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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Sin is cosmic treason
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We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
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It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.
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The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.
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Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse.
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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.
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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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Part of the sin of Pride is a subtle but deep racism.
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Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin, As sweet as clover-honey in its cell; Love is the password whereby souls get in To Heaven--the gate that leads, sometimes, to Hell.
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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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Without question the AK-47 was a remarkable invention, and not just because it works so well, or because it changed how wars are fought, or because it proved to be one of the most important products of the 20th century.
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Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.
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The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.
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Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions.
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I look forward to strengthening the U.S.-U.N. partnership and working closely with Secretary of State Kerry towards our shared goals of peace, development, and human rights.
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Life had its seasons, and the season of letting go would always come, but there was something very beautiful in that, in the letting go. Leaves were always graceful as they floated away from the tree.
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Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.
