Erwin W. Lutzer Quotes
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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
T. S. Eliot -
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 -
Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.
Iris DeMent -
To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.
Saint Ignatius -
Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.
R. C. Sproul -
Sin is cosmic treason
R. C. Sproul
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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 -
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 -
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 -
A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.
J. G. Holland -
While we are committing sin we may, perhaps, succeed in putting away all thought of God, and persuade ourselves that, because we have forgotten Him, therefore He neither sees nor regards us. But when He comes forth for judgment this delusion is no longer possible: there is no escape: there may not even be delay: we must, however unprepared, meet Him face to face.
G. H. Pember
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To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'
Francis Bacon -
You stopped looking for the truth...I'd guess that's a sin we've all been guilty of.
William Kent Krueger -
Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
William Osler -
Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.
Mahatma Gandhi -
What a state of society is this in which freethinker is a term of abuse, and in which doubt is regarded as sin?
William Winwood Reade
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among the few who are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are that are saved.
Benedict Joseph Labre -
...those who break the law should be loved more and not less for their sin, for if we do not forgive then is sin added to sin and the end is death.
Elizabeth Goudge -
You have a drug that helps people to be in the present, instead of being locked in the past.
Bessel van der Kolk -
Keep in mind that when sin is viewed superficially, it is dealt with superficially.
Erwin W. Lutzer