Desires are what can most easily ruin us, lovely.
Simona PanovaTag: love passion romantic easy difficult romance relationships danger hurt sin desires mystery suspense girl desire impossible boy wish gothic supernatural young-adult relationship longing mysterious dangerous lovely sins thirst want in-love forbidden sinful forbidden-love yearn sexy loved gothic-romance passionate easily goth freya impossible-love cardew forbid
The fall of man did not introduce evil; it placed us on the wrong side of it, under its rule, needing rescue.
N.D. WilsonTag: christianity sin bible
I thought speakers didn't believe in sin," said a sullen boy.
Andrew smiled. "You believe in sin, Styrka, and you do things because of that belief. So sin is real in you, and knowing you, this speaker must believe in sin.
Tag: sin
Why had he committed this terrible sin? Everything in the world was insignificant compared to what he had lost. Everything in the world is insignificant compared to the truth and purity of one small man – even the empire stretching from the Black Sea to the Pacific Ocean, even science itself.
Then he realized that it still wasn't too late. He still had the strength to lift up his head, to remain his mother's son.
And he wasn't going to try to console himself or justify what he had done. He wanted this mean, cowardly act to stand all his life as a reproach; day and night it would be something to bring him back to himself. No, no, no! He didn't want to strive to be a hero – and then preen himself over his courage.
Every hour, every day, year in, year out, he must struggle to be a man, struggle for his right to be pure and kind. He must do this with humility. And if it came to it, he mustn't be afraid even of death; even then he must remain a man.
'Well then, we'll see,' he said to himself. 'Maybe I do have enough strength. Your strength, Mother...
Tag: kindness sin heroism guilt mothers
He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.
John CalvinTag: sin glory-of-god
The author says people are guilty of "wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck.
T.H. WhiteIn the irresistible logic of guilt, one evil leads to another, one sin is developed out of another. There is nothing abrupt, nothing casual in the process. The road to sin is smooth, because an army of transgressions has passed over it. When such a development takes place, the community is filled with consternation. Men meet each other and say, "Have you heard what has happened? Mr. A. has turned out a defaulter. Mr. B. has been robbing his bank. How could he have done it?" Alas! he did it long ago, when he took the first step, when he diverged a very little way from the path of right. After that, every other step was easy, natural, and logical.
James Freeman ClarkeTag: sin consequences slippery-slope
One gives way to the temptation, only to rise from it again, afterwards, with a great eagerness to reestablish one's dignity, as if it were a tombstone to place on the grave of one's shame, and a monument to hide and sign the memory of our weaknesses. Everybody's in the same case. Some folks haven't the courage to say certain things, that's all!
THE STEP-DAUGHTER: All appear to have the courage to do them though.
Tag: sin temptation redemption dignity
Hypocrisy versus authenticity among men is not always so black and white, and as is righteousness, humility is often self-proclaimed. The Church is most definitely supposed to be a hospital for the spiritually, emotionally, mentally, and physically sick, hurting, and broken individual, yet ironically, many of its critics are those who ran away and permanently denounced its members after they visited and felt that they were sneezed on.
Criss JamiTag: humility grace church authenticity mercy sin forgiveness hypocrisy sickness apologetics critics righteousness
Either the Bible will keep you from sin or sin will keep you from the Bible.
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