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.
Kajol -
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 -
The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.
Barry Commoner -
To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
Saint Ignatius -
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 -
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
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Sin is cosmic treason
R. C. Sproul -
We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
Hans Kung -
The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.
Harold B. Lee -
Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse.
Umar -
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 -
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
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Part of the sin of Pride is a subtle but deep racism.
K. P. Yohannan -
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 -
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 -
Painting does not come from intelligence so much, as from sight and feeling and invention.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton -
The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.
Abraham Lincoln -
His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.
Ernest Hemingway
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Was ever poet so trusted before?
Samuel Johnson -
There are nights when you are lucky enough to tap into something about yourself that you are unaware of and can't possibly control, and somehow, at that moment, other people can view it or sense it or feel it.
Heather Watts -
Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.
Edwin Percy Whipple