A Quote by Douglas Coupland

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

Douglas Coupland

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Commandments Conflict Deadly Deadly Sins Seven Seven Deadly Sins Sins Ten Ten Commandments

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Douglas Coupland
Canadian - Novelist
Born: December 30, 1961

These are the Seven Deadly Sins: Avarice, Envy, Pride, Gluttony, Lust, Anger, Sloth. These are the seven deadly sins: venality, paranoia, insecurity, excess, carnality, contempt, boredom.

Martin Amis

You know, it's ironic to me that Christians want to keep the Ten Commandments in our schools, because Christianity has abrogated four of the Ten Commandments. For example, the Sabbath day according to the Ten Commandments is Saturday, not Sunday. And the reason is because God rested, not because Jesus was resurrected.

Alan Dershowitz

The seven deadly sins of the Christian Church are: greed, pride, envy, anger, gluttony, lust, and sloth. Satanism advocates indulging in each of these "sins" as they all lead to physical, mental, or emotional gratification.

Anton Szandor LaVey

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

Joseph Epstein

Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.

Tom Robbins

But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.

Edward Abbey

A belief in God is vitally important, not just in show business, but stability in life. You know, to recognize deity is the most important thing that you can do. I mean, it comes to the Ten Commandments. They weren't ten suggestions. They were Ten Commandments.

Donny Osmond

Of the seven deadly sins, surely it is pride that most commonly afflicts the gardener.

Michael Pollan

The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

George Bernard Shaw

Do you advocate the Ten Commandments as a guide to the good life? Then I can only presume that you don't know the Ten Commandments.

Richard Dawkins

Before we become too arrogant with the most deadly of the seven deadly sins, the sin of pride, let us remember that the two great wars of this century, wars which cost twenty million dead, were fought between Christian nations praying to the same God.

Richard M. Nixon

Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

Oscar Wilde

Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin.

John Stott

I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.