Erwin W. Lutzer Quotes

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

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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
  • Moment
  • Difficulties
  • Dealt

• 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

• 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
  • American
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• 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
  • Woman
  • Religious
  • 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 can bring pleasure, but never happiness.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Happiness
  • Pleasure
  • Sin

• Sin is cosmic treason

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Sin
  • Cosmic
  • Treason

• 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

• 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

• He [man] knows that when he is not what he ought to be; when he does what he ought not to do; or omits what he ought to do, he is chargeable with sin.

  

  Charles Hodge
  • Sin
  • Omits
  • Chargeable

• 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

• A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Men
  • Sin
  • Doe

• 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
  • God
  • Thought
  • Sin

• 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
  • Sin
  • Anger
  • Oracles

• You stopped looking for the truth...I'd guess that's a sin we've all been guilty of.

  

  William Kent Krueger
  • Sin
  • Guilty

• Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Sin
  • Knowing
  • Life is

• Is not that state a warning and a judgment for our heavy sins as a nation?

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • History
  • Sin
  • Judgment

• People who are obsessed are raw with God; they do not attempt to mask the ugliness of their sins or their failures. Obsessed people don't put it on for God; He is their safe place, where they can be at peace.

  

  Francis Chan
  • People
  • Christian
  • Sin

• We are truth-speakers, we men of Gondor. We boast seldom, and then perform, or die in the attempt. "Not if I found it on the highway would I take it," I said. Even if I were such a man as to desire this thing, and even though I knew not clearly what this thing was when I spoke, still I should take those words as a vow, and be held by them.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Desire
  • Perform
  • Highway

• First restrain, next blockade, lastly destroy.

  

  Aron Nimzowitsch
  • Destroy
  • Restrain
  • Blockade

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

  

  Erwin W. Lutzer
  • Sin
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