Quotes with sin-concealing

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  • Friedrich Nietzsche A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Samuel Johnson A vow is a snare for sin.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bill Hybels Prayer busters (causes of unanswered prayer) are prayerlessness, unconfessed sin, unresolved relational conflict, selfishness, uncaring attitudes, and inadequate faith.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • William Hazlitt Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering the weaknesses of others.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • William Shakespeare If it be a sin to covet honor I am the most offending soul alive.
    Henry V
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Molière It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • St. John of the Cross Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.
    St. John of the Cross
    Spanish mystic, a Roman Catholic saint, a Carmelite friar and a priest (1542 - 1591)
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  • Dwight L. Moody The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Katherine Anne Porter The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own -even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Abbott Eliot Kittredge Throw away the Old Testament! What part of it will you throw away? That which I do not understand? Take down then yonder blood-stained cross; for there is a love there which passeth knowledge, and a Divine hatred of sin which shook the solid earth.
    Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
    Abbott Eliot Kittredge
    American minister (1834 - 1912)
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  • George Gurdjieff A ''sin'' is something which is not necessary.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • Marcus Aurelius A man does not sin by commission only, but often by ommission.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Henrik Ibsen A marriage based on full confidence, based on complete and unqualified frankness on both sides; they are not keeping anything back; there's no deception underneath it all. If I might so put it, it's an agreement for the mutual forgiveness of sin.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Billy Sunday A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!
    As quoted in ""Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ" by William Thomas Ellis
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Mary Baker Eddy A wicked mortal is not the idea of God. He is little else than the expression of error. To suppose that sin, lust, hatred, envy, hypocrisy, revenge, have life abiding in them, is a terrible mistake. Life and Life's idea, Truth and Truth's idea, never make men sick, sinful, or mortal.
    Mary Baker Eddy
    American founder of the Christian Science Church (1821 - 1910)
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  • Henry David Thoreau After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Rebecca West All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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