A Quote by Elbert Hubbard

I am not sure just what the unpardonable sin is, but I believe it is a disposition to evade the payment of small bills.

Elbert Hubbard

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Elbert Hubbard
American - Writer
June 19, 1856 - May 7, 1915

Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit.

Rebecca West

'What is the Unpardonable Sin' asked the lime-burner 'It is a sin that grew within my own breast', replied Ethan Brand 'The sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God'.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude.

Brigham Young

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

Marilyn Monroe

When a sinner has any just sense of his condition, as alienated from a holy God, he will not be apt to think of the unpardonable sin.

Ichabod Spencer

Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.

Dorothy L. Sayers

When you have committed an action that you cannot bear to think about, that causes you to writhe in retrospect, do not seek to evade the memory: make yourself relive it, confront it repeatedly over and over, till finally, you will discover, through sheer repetition it loses its power to pain you. It works, I guarantee you, this sure-fire guilt-eradicator, like a homeopathic medicine - like in small doses applied to like. It works, but I am not sure that it is a good thing.

Mary McCarthy

...the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.

Galen Starr Ross

I am not a fan of people who abuse service staff. In fact, I find it intolerable. It’s an unpardonable sin as far as I’m concerned, taking out personal business or some other kind of dissatisfaction on a waiter or busboy.