A Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Die:   To stop sinning suddenly. — © Ambrose Bierce
Die: To stop sinning suddenly.
Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.
If turning from your sins means to stop sinning, then people can only be saved if they stop sinning. And it is unlikely that anyone has ever been saved, since we don't know anyone who has ever stopped sinning.
Praying men stop sinning and sinning men stop praying.
Why do people stop developing, or, like they stop the way you can rate their, psychologically, their development? Where they stop, and just from being children to maybe stopping at a very adolescent age, and they stay there until they die. Physically die. I mean, they react adolescently. They don't change. They don't develop. They don't — it's that continual read, that process which is is the total threat for the ego.
The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.
Wouldn't it be great if people could get to live suddenly as often as they die suddenly?
it's not until you become seriously ill and you nearly die and you're at home for 6 months, that you suddenly stop to realize that this isn't the way I intended it to be in the beginning. Everything that you've done falls away and start wondering why you went through all that rock business stuff.
If we make provision for sinning tomorrow, we will be sinning tomorrow.
Transgressive to me means breaking the rules and sinning. I don't see myself as breaking the rules and sinning. I'm really interested in what it means to be female.
When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
Any kind of horror video game where I'm the first-person player and I'm... I suddenly stop caring about the video game dude, and I'm like, I really don't want him to die,' and then the minute he dies, it upsets me. I can't play those games.
When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.
Instead of tryig to stop thought when you meditate, focus your attention on love. Suddenly you'll find your thoughts are slacking. Light is everywhere and suddenly there is no thought.
For me personally, I have a fear of, 'If I stop, I'm going to die.' If I stop doing the things that are enriching to me or creatively exciting to me or if I stop creating, then I feel stagnant. If something isn't growing, it's dying.
I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.
It's hard when people die, but there's something about when people die suddenly.
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