Poverty, disease, sorrow, imprisonment and other evils are the fruits borne by the tree of one's own sins.
We find or invent the cleverest means of attributing our sins to anything or anyone outside of ourselves.
The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner.
The faith in Christ that saves us from our sins involves an internal transformation that has external implications.
Deadly little Miho. She won't let you feel a thing unless she wants you to. She twists the blade. He feels it.
I know that elections must be limited only to those who understand that the Arabs are the deadly enemy of the Jewish state, who would bring on us a slow Auschwitz - not with gas, but with knives and hatchets.
Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
The Friday before winter break, my mom packed me an overnight bag and a few deadly weapons and took me to a new boarding school.
Christ, having sacrificed himself once, is to eternity a certain and valid sacrifice for the sins of all faithful.
Government never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins.
Certainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.
Personally, I say, "Out of the frying pan and into the deadly pit filled with sharks who are wielding chainsaws with killer kittens stapled to them." However, that one's having a rough time catching on.
To be convinced in our hearts that we have forgiveness of sins and peace with God by grace alone is the hardest thing.
I'm a big fan of Steven Seagal early films. On Deadly Ground, I'll watch that anytime it comes on. That's one of the reasons I wanted to work with him. I remember that he's got a great eye for photography. There was a lot that I learned from that.
Trying to make it from the bottom. His sins
Feeling as hard as Vince Carter's knee cartilage is.
A few atoms added here, subtracted there, is all it takes to make the difference between male and female sex characteristics, between a harmless molecule and a deadly addictive one.
No matter the severity of suffering we experience in this life, it will always be less that what we have deserved for our sins
Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.
AIDS today in Africa is claiming more lives than the sum total of all wars, famines and floods and the ravages of such deadly diseases as malaria ... We must act now for the sake of the world.
Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.
Someone who seeks to travel the path of Allah should begin with a sound repentance from all his sins.
He gave me a severe look over his spectacles and said, as if he thought the words were deadly venom and might kill me, "You are an untidy person.
O jealousy, Thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom Preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue Of my flesh check to haggard sallowness, And drinks my spirit up!
As our city and country begin the long, rocky road of recovery from COVID, we still must avoid the pitfalls of another deadly public health crisis: gun violence.
Now, I have to - in my defense, I have the say that general knowledge of the deadly nature of cigarettes was not primarily in my mind and nor was it on these poor cowboys, who - many of whom who've died of emphysema since we were shooting.
Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.
I will but confess the sins of my green cloak to my grey friar's frock, and all shall be well again.
The more beautiful the skin is, the more deadly it is. That's what Will's like. All that pretty face and whatnot just hides how twisted up and rotten he is on the inside.
Welcome to the truth of our world-a massive seed shot out to the stars, filled with deadly children. A seed designed to slay everything it touches.
For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast, And breathed in the face of the foe as he passed; And the eyes of the sleepers waxed deadly and chill, And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!
You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing.
The only way to really cure what's on the inside is understanding that Jesus Christ died for our sins.
Sins may be forgiven through repentance, but no act of wit will ever justify them.
Search your hearts, and see if you are like God. I have searched mine, and feel to repent of all my sins.
Paris is a city that liberates you as a woman from all your sins that you think you are guilty of; it washes away all of that, and you are free.
Dweller in yon dungeon dark, Hangman of creation, mark! Who in widow weeds appears, Laden with unhonoured years, Noosing with care a bursting purse, Baited with many a deadly curse?
Indian believes they ain't but two sins... bein a coward... and turnin agin yer own kind.
Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.
I have long feared that my sins would return to visit me. And the cost is more than I can bear.
Your conscience is no defense against you sins; however, it can unfortunately deny you the pleasure of enjoying them.
Modern cyberspace is a deadly festering swamp, teeming with dangerous programs such as 'viruses,' 'worms,' 'Trojan horses' and 'licensed Microsoft software' that can take over your computer and render it useless.
The CCP has become the political incarnation of the deadly coronavirus, infecting the world with illegal trade practices, arm twisting smaller nations, debt - a.k.a death - traps and sinister imperialist ambition.
If you want a job, do what I did: work for other people for 50 years; but the odds of you getting swallowed up by the blasphemous godless, decadent, deadly spirit of today's show business are thousands to one.
The risks of transporting deadly nuclear waste, the environmental justice impacts and the long-term health effects of both these projects are untenable...We cannot afford to be silent on these important issues.
History has shown that a government's redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector's creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
Nothing is more deadly to achievement than the belief that effort will not be rewarded, that the world is a bleak and discriminatory place in which only the predatory and the specially preferred can get ahead.
The greatest burden in the world is superstition, not only of ceremonies in the church, but of imaginary and scarecrow sins at home.
Because God's justice is inexorable, it is hard to obtain forgiveness for sins committed with complete deliberation.
It is not the constant thought of their sins, but the vision of the holiness of God that makes the saints aware of their own sinfulness.
The 'Godfather I' and 'II,' those were real straight movies in my life. At the same time, so is 'Five Deadly Venoms,' if we go into kung-fu movies.
Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.
Jealousy ... is an affliction of the spirit which, unlike some sins of the flesh, gives no one any pleasure.
What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear. What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer.
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
I knew racial discrimination at its worst in the 1930s. I lived with the humility of it but I never lost my sense of humor. Humor is the escape valve from the deadly reality of adversity.
No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.
We trample the blood of the Son of God underfoot if we think we are forgiven because we are sorry for our sins.
He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart.
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