#sins

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man. ↗

— Konrad Lorenz

#condemned #correspond #harmless #inclinations #least

The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot take two steps without turning around to inspect your footsteps, you are getting nowhere fast. ↗

— Corey Taylor

#seven-deadly-sins #life

I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal. ↗

— Olivier Martinez

#all day #being #big #big deal #cousins

Grace gave her a gentle smile. "You know what the answer is, don't you? Chocolate. It's always the answer, no matter the question. ↗

— Suzanne Wright

#humor #humor

Here comes Monseiur Le Beau. Rosalind: With his mouth full of news. Celia: Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young. Rosalind: Then shall we be news-crammed. Celia: All the better; we shall be the more marketable. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#celia #cousins #humor #plays #rosalind

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything. ↗

— Malcolm Muggeridge

#been #beings #believe #believing #century

The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins. ↗

— Saint Patrick

#i #lord #opened #recall #should

The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches; perhaps, however, with no strict consistency. ↗

— Robert Rainy

#been #certain #church #churches #consistency

I think that a good Left is a party that always thinks about the future and doesn't care much about our past sins. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#always #care #future #good #i

O [Roman] people be ashamed; be ashamed of your lives. Almost no cities are free of evil dens, are altogether free of impurities, except the cities in which the barbarians have begun to live... Let nobody think otherwise, the vices of our bad lives have alone conquered us... The Goths lie, but are chaste, the Franks lie, but are but are generous, the Saxons are savage in cruelty...but are admirable in chastity...what hope can there be [for the Romans] when the barbarians are more pure [than they]?" -Salvian ↗

— William J Federer

#barbarians #dual-meaning #evil #evil-men #evil-people