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
  • Laziness

• 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

• You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Giving
  • Enough
  • Invention

• When you see a condemned man on his way to the gallows, it moves you to pity. If you could do something to free him, you would do it. Well, brothers and sisters, when I see a person in mortal sin, I see someone drawing nearer with every step to the gallows of hell. And seeing him in this unhappy state, I happen to know the way to free him: that he be converted to God, ask God's pardon, and make a good confession. Woe betide me if he does not.

  

  Anthony Mary Claret
  • Drawing
  • Sin
  • Hell

• Keep in mind that when sin is viewed superficially, it is dealt with superficially.

  

  Erwin W. Lutzer
  • Sin
  • Dealt
  • Viewed

• I believe each person is more creative than he or she has ever imagined.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Believe
  • She
  • Persons

• It's good to be successful and have financial status but if you're only gonna live for the money, you're only gonna reach a certain status and I'm in there for greatness and peace of mind.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Live
  • Money
  • Financial Status

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

  

  Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Sin
  • Invention
  • Patent