Original Sin Quotes

Original Sin Quote of the day

Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.

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

All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue.

True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.

The Original Sin which brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and dictatorship was the Federal Income Tax Amendment and its illegitimate child, Federal Aid.

Blood sin and desecration of the race are the original sin in this world and the end of a humanity which surrenders to it.

Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.

Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love.

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

The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility.

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.

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

I believe ingratitude is the original sin. I believe if Adam and Eve had been grateful for the garden of Eden they had, they would not have been so focused on the one tree they didn't have.

Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.

Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death.

Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.

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

The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.

Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.

The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology.

Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon.

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.

To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall?

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.

On parochial school I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.

By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.

All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.

Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.

Then be sure of one thing: The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have. The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

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

The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.

Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.

Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done."

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

There's no such thing as an original sin.

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.

There is no original sin. It's all been done before.

The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.

We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be.

All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.

Money is the original sin in politics and I am not sinless.

Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.

There is good and bad in all of us and the Church uses the idea of original sin to control us by saying that, if we do not obey the bishops, we will rot in Hell.

...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance.

The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin.

Tell me I'm a sinner I got news for you I spoke to God this morning and he don't like you! Don't you try and teach me no original sin; I don't need your pity for the shape I'm in

I always had a problem with original sin; I always had a problem with the exclusivity of the church and a lot of the things that the nuns taught me.

I like the fact that people come together who have shared values, but I don't believe that a man died 2,000 years ago and was crucified on a cross to save me from my original sin.

Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.