#sins

How then can we deal with our tendency toward worldliness? It is *not* by determining that we will not be worldly, but by committing ourselves to becoming more godly. ↗

— Jerry Bridges

#jerry-bridges #respectable-sins #worldliness #respect

This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#fancy #raisins #terrible #wordplay #bad

You're a bad person, Ellie," he said without a trace of irony. "I'm not bad. The world is bad and I'm just trying to survive in it. ↗

— Karina Halle

#sins-needles #artists

He grinned. “I was trying to remember all the deadly sins the other day,” he said. “Greed,envy, gluttony, irony, pedantry…” “I’m pretty sure irony isn’t a deadly sin.” “I’m pretty sure it is.” “Lust,” she said. “Lust is a deadly sin.” “And spanking.” “I think that falls under lust.” “I think it should have its own category,” said Jace. “Greed, envy, gluttony, irony, pedantry, lust, and spanking. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#lust #pedantry #spanking #dead

It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable. ↗

— Molière

#sin

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins. ↗

— Karl Barth

#back #case #christian #forgiveness #looking

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins. ↗

— Mark Twain

#martyrdom #multitude #sins

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#condemnation #cure #more #sins #than

Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins. ↗

— Bryan Clay

#aunts #cousins #full #grandparents #house

It is better to do one's own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#better #defective #does #duty #follow