#sin

Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else. ↗

For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#healing #heartbreak #love #self-esteem #sincerity

But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin including homosexuality and lying, and to me lying is just as b ad as homosexuality, and we've allowed this sin to run rampant in our nation. ↗

— Reggie White

#against #allow #allowed #because #bible

My confession begins," Father S said, "as the confessions of many men begin - with three words" "Father forgive me?" Michael hazarded a guess. Father S signed. "I met Eleanor. ↗

— Tiffany Reisz

#the-original-sinners #tiffany-reisz #forgiveness

Since I got married my wife doesn't really let me wear anything that I used to because she says I have no taste at all. ↗

— Dominic West

#because #got #i #married #me

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so. ↗

— George Whitefield

#against #appearance #christians #duty #evil

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself. ↗

— Rebecca West

#humanity #itself #more #never #than

That fateful stretch of road has since been dubbed the Highway of Death. ↗

— John Whitehead

#death #dubbed #highway #road #since

I'm no hillbilly singer. ↗

— Elvis Presley

#i #singer

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet? ↗