#original sin

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

— Elvis Costello

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

— Fran Lebowitz

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

— Desmond Harrington

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Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it. ↗

— Reinhold Niebuhr

#achieving #capable #conceiving #him #his

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it. ↗

— Helen Hayes

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Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world. ↗

— Charles Hodge

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The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

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