Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes

Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.

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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

• The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Real
  • Fact
  • Invention

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

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Single
  • Sin
  • Reward

• 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
  • Religious
  • Woman
  • Sin

• 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

• Sin is cosmic treason

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Sin
  • Cosmic
  • Treason

• We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Thinking
  • Age
  • Today

• 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

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

  

  Umar
  • Pain
  • Sin
  • Inspiring

• 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

• 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

• Part of the sin of Pride is a subtle but deep racism.

  

  K. P. Yohannan
  • Deep
  • Pride
  • Sin

• 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.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Soul
  • Heaven
  • Sometimes

• 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

• 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.

  

  C. J. Chivers
  • Important
  • War
  • Question

• Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.

  

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • Feeling
  • Painting
  • Intelligence

• In the Israelite encampment, even though there were iniquities, sins, and wickedness, God did not see any of them because the blood of bulls and goats, which they offered up to the Lord daily, covered the children of Israel. How much more true that is for us today, we who are washed clean forever by the blood of the Lamb of God, Jesus Christ, our beautiful Savior.

  

  Joseph Prince
  • Children
  • Beautiful
  • Jesus

• I don't have feathers, but I feel like a bird sometimes.

  

  Yves Rossy
  • Feel
  • Bird
  • Feathers

• Variety is the condition of harmony.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Harmony
  • Condition
  • Variety

• What we pluralists have to do is to say to the people standing on the faith line, particularly the young ones, no, pluralism is the wish of the creator. It is the greatest opportunity for humanity.

  

  Eboo Patel
  • Opportunity
  • Faith
  • Humanity

• The way I see it is, each man has to be accountable for himself. But to sit here and blame everything on him, from an outside perspective, that's wrong. Because it's never one man out there. It's an 11-man game.

  

  Ellis Hobbs
  • Game
  • Wrong
  • Blame

• Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Sin
  • Invention
  • Patent