#sinner

The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth. ↗

— William Gurnall

#come #comes #devil #falls #fly

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#insights #many #saint #sinners #stem

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture. ↗

— Elbert Hubbard

#manufacture #saves #science #seeks #sinners

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ. ↗

— Martin Luther

#christ #more #rejoice #sin #sinner

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.' ↗

— George McGovern

#clergyman #father #hate #love #said

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#men #only #righteous #sinners #think

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#find #finds #heaven #sinners #tongue

By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#before #born #bring #children #disobedience

The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#being #felt #had #i #like

Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot be too little exposed to temptation, or too little acquainted with vice, or anything connected therewith – It must be, either, that you think she is essentially so vicious, or so feeble-minded that she cannot withstand temptation, - and though she may be pure and innocent as long as she is kept in ignorance and restraint, yet, being destitute of real virtue, to teach her how to sin is at once to make her a sinner... ↗

— Anne Brontë

#men #sin #sinner #stereotypes #weakness