A Quote by Rebecca West

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

Rebecca West

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Rebecca West
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December 21, 1892 - March 15, 1983

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

Ambrose Bierce

All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

Saint Basil

God has decided the rules of life, whereby you don't trespass on anybody else's rights, and sin is something that upsets the balance of things. There are three types of sin: sin against yourself; sin against other people; and sin against God. People often sin against themselves and others and misbehave with God, too.

Cat Stevens

'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

Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.

Dorothy L. Sayers

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

Galen Starr Ross

Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin.

Theodore Roosevelt

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I grew up thinking there was one unpardonable sin – to be boring.

Germaine Greer

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

Emma Goldman

there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.

Truman Capote

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

Thomas Huxley

Man can sin against nature in two ways. First, when he sins against his specific rational nature, acting contrary to reason. In this sense, we can say that every sin is a sin against man's nature, because it is against man's right reason.

Thomas Aquinas

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

Rae Foley

The magnitude of the punishment matches the magnitude of the sin. Now a sin that is against God is infinite; the higher the person against whom it is committed, the graver the sin-it is more criminal to strike a head of state than a private citizen-and God is of infinite greatness. Therefore an infinite punishment is deserved for a sin committed against Him.

Thomas Aquinas

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