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May 28, 2012 by kevinstilley

Sin – select quotes

All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
~ W.H. Auden

Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it, and the farther we go, the more we have to come back.
~ Isaac Barrow

I preach deliverance to others, I tell them there is freedom, while I hear my own chains clang.
~ John Bunyan

If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance; for the want of repentance after one has sinned makes the heart harder and harder.
~ John Bunyan

It is partly because sin does not provoke our own wrath that we do not believe that sin provokes the wrath of God.
~ R. W. Dale

If you desire to undertake a devout life, you must not only cease to sin, but also cleanse your heart from all affections to sin. . . . Souls that are recovered from the state of sin, and still retain these affections . . . eat without relish, sleep without rest, laugh without joy, and drag themselves along rather than walk. They do good, but with such a spiritual heaviness that it takes away all the grace from their good exercises.
~ Francis de Sales, in Introduction to the Devout Life

The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.
~ Epicurus

Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but forbidden because it is hurtful.
~ Benjamin Franklin

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
~ Thomas Fuller

Among the people there are killers who have not yet shed blood, and thieves who have stolen nothing, and liars who have so far told the truth.
~ Kahlil Gibran

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
~ Thomas Jefferson

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or the guilt of sin.
~ C.S. Lewis

The greatest truth we can ever be told is that our old self has gone. I can deal with the body of sin only as I realize that my old self has gone, and I have a new self. This is the most striking and amazing truth… Understand that the old man is not there. The only way to stop living as if he were still there is to realize that he is not there.”
~ D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

In short, a man must be free from the sin he is, which makes him do the sin he does.
~ George MacDonald

We are all too Christian to really enjoy sinning, and all too fond of sin to really enjoy Christianity.
~ Peter Marshall

The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.
~ Dwight L. Moody

Pleasure is the bait of sin.
~ Plato

Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
~ William Shakespeare

If a man confesses his sins before his Maker what labor does he leave to the Satan? The Satan can do nothing but depart.
~ Talmud, Zohar, ii

To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.
~ Leo Tolstoy

A sin takes on new and real terror when there seems to be a chance that it is going to be found out.
~ Mark Twain

We ought to hate sin like we hate the death of a loved one.
~ Thomas Watson

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May 25, 2012 by kevinstilley

Ethics & Morality – select quotes

Whatever is, is right.
~ Democritus

Tell me what a person believes and I’ll tell you what he’ll do.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

To expect Christian conduct from a person who is not born again is heresy.
~ D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
~ T.S. Eliot, in Murder In the Cathedral

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
~ Edward Roscoe Murrow

The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end.
~ Leon Trotsky

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October 17, 2010 by kevinstilley

Temptation – select quotes

For every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered most by flies.
~ Francis of Sales

The hell to be endured hereafter . . . is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way. Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state. We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be none. The drunken Rip van Winkle in Jefferson’s play excuses himself for every fresh dereliction by saying, ‘I won’t count this time!’ Well, we may not count it, and a kind Heaven may not count it, but it is being counted none the less. Down among his nerve-ends and fibers the molecules are counting it, registering it, and storing it up to be used against him when the next temptation comes.”
~ William James, in Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life’s Ideals, page 77

Temptation is not a sin; it is a call to battle.
~ Erwin Lutzer

It is easier to stay out, than to get out.
~ Mark Twain

To what may the Yetzer ha-Ra [Evil Impulse] be compared? To a man who comes to a door, opens it, and if no one halts him, enters as if he were an invited guest. If no one still objects, he gives orders as if he were the master of the house.
~ Talmud, Zohar, v, 267b

Walk by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh.
~ The Bible, Galatians 5:16

Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Draw near to God and he will draw near to you.
~ The Bible, James 4:7-8a

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