Strong passions are the precious raw material of sanctity. Individuals that have carried their sinning to extremes should not despair or say, “I am too great a sinner to change,” or “God would not want me.” God will take anyone who is willing to love, not with an occasional gesture, but with a “passionless passion,” a “wild tranquility.” A sinner, unrepentant, cannot love God, any more that a man on dry land can swim; but as soon as he takes his errant energies to God and asks for their redirection, he will become happy, as he was never happy before. It is not the wrong things one has already done which keep one from God; it is the present persistence in that wrong.
Fulton J. SheenTags: sin catholicism catholic catholic-spirituality passions
People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.
Anne PerryThe harsh reality is that my flesh must die not so much because of what it does, but because of what it is.
Kelly MinterSin is man's, last attempt to perfection.
Anthony LiccioneTags: sin perfection attempt
The established church of the town of Mansoul has the Devil for its archbishop. Sin has enclasped our nature as a boa constrictor encircles its victim, and when it has maintained its hold for twenty, forty, or sixty years, I hope you are not so foolish as to think that holy things will easily get the mastery.
Charles Haddon SpurgeonTags: sin
Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.
Charles Haddon SpurgeonSin has sprung from a royal though evil stock, and if it be in the heart, it will struggle for the throne.
Charles Haddon SpurgeonNow they are lovers. The first, wild courses are ended. They have founded their domain. A satanic happiness follows.
James SalterTags: happiness love sex sin knowing
Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the
sinful.
Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.
Fulton J. SheenTags: atheism sin scepticism immorality
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