A Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

Ambrose Bierce

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Success Against Fellows Our Sin Success Is

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Ambrose Bierce
American - Journalist
June 24, 1842 - 1914

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

Rebecca West

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

Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that sin shrivels the rationality. When you sin with the heart or the emotions, that sin shrivels the emotions. When you sin with the will, that sin destroys and dissolves your willpower and your self-control. Sin is the suicidal action of the self against itself. Sin destroys freedom because sin is an enslaving power.

Timothy Keller

Our first problem is that our attitude towards sin is more self-centred than God-centred. We are more concerned about our own "Victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sin grieve the heart of God. We cannot tolerate failure in our struggle with sin chiefly because we are success oriented, not because we know it is offensive to God.

Jerry Bridges

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

Germaine Greer

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

Emma Goldman

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

Thomas Huxley

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

Truman Capote

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

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