#original sin

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody. ↗

— Desmond Harrington

#anything #original #original sin #pay #repentance

There's no such thing as an original sin. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#original sin #sin #such #thing

Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#born #both #could #happened #like

Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word. ↗

— Willard Van Orman Quine

#object #original #original sin #sign #sin

Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly. ↗

— Malcolm Bradbury

#christians #corruption #grow #innocent #old

An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin. ↗

— Thomas Campbell

#dear #excepting #how #i #maid

When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#absolutely #baptism #baptized #because #believe

The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

#affect #basically #claims #did #doctrine