Redemption, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religions, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.
Ambrose BierceTags: humor murder eternity sin understanding mystery redemption deity deliverance doctrine holy-religions penalty sinners
I felt for the tormented whirlwinds
Damned for their carnal sins
Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.
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God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
Søren KierkegaardTags: god saints redemption sinners
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
Nelson MandelaTags: saints sin sinners atonement
Hate the sin, love the sinner.
Mahatma GandhiTags: love hate religion sin sinners
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
Thornton WilderTags: morality virtue sinners vice
How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people's sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing.
Yevgeny YevtushenkoTags: poetry sinners sins confessor russian
The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show compassion; but that He cannot and will not have a relationship with pretenders in the Spirit.
Brennan ManningTags: compassion sin sinners forgive ragamuffin
A grave and dark-clad company," quoth Goodman Brown.
Nathaniel HawthornePrevarication, how divine! I always did get along better with sinners.
Karen ChanceTags: sinners karen-chance
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