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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Vanity: my favorite sin.
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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.
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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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The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
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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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Lying is the greatest of all sins.
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I believe that one of the secret engines that allows cinema to work, and have the marvelous power over us that it does, is the fact that for thousands of years we have spent eight hours every night in a 'cinematic' dream-state, and so are familiar with this version of reality.
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Maybe a nation that consumes as much booze and dope as we do and has our kind of divorce statistics should pipe down about "character issues."
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Independent publishing gives everyone a voice, and those with a voice to which people inherently want to listen will find a way to the top.
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Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.
