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.
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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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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.
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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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Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.
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Sin is cosmic treason
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The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.
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Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse.
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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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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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A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.
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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.
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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.'
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You stopped looking for the truth...I'd guess that's a sin we've all been guilty of.
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Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.
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Perhaps no sin so easily besets us as a sense of self-satisfied superiority to others.
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Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.
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The doctrine that man is infinitely tough and resourceful and not easily cheated of his freedom to sin.
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The act of taking the first step is what separates the winners from the losers.
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I think you are the best you can be when you feel free, when you feel open. So I think keeping that mentality, keeping positive, is key.
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We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born.
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Keep in mind that when sin is viewed superficially, it is dealt with superficially.
