#sinners

You are everywhere. In my head, in my dreams. You are who I want. You make me feel and I—sometimes I like it, sometimes I don’t, but you make me feel and after twenty years, that alone is enough for me to want things. Unattainable things. With you. From you. ↗

— Avril Ashton

#brooklyn-sinners #kane-ashby #syren-rua #dreams

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 Manning

#forgive #ragamuffin #sin #sinners #forgiveness

Hate the sin, love the sinner. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#love #religion #sin #sinners #love

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#insights #many #saint #sinners #stem

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#manufacture #saves #science #seeks #sinners

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints. ↗

— Abigail Van Buren

#hospital #museum #saints #sinners

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#find #finds #heaven #sinners #tongue

Saints need sinners. ↗

— Alan Watts

#saints #sinners

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you. ↗

— Martin Luther

#conscience #feelings #lord #more #preaches

By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#before #born #bring #children #disobedience