Ambrose Bierce Quotes About Sin

• DAY, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. This period is divided into two parts, the day proper and the night, or day improper - the former devoted to sins of business, the latter consecrated to the other sort.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Business, Night, Two

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

• Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Success, Thought Provoking, Sin

• IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Growth, Devil, Vices

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.95, 谷月社

• WALL STREET, n. A symbol for sin for every devil to rebuke. That Wall Street is a den of thieves is a belief that serves every unsuccessful thief in place of a hope in Heaven.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Success, Wall, Heaven

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.235, University of Georgia Press

• REDEMPTION, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin, through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned . . . . whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Understanding, Trying

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.194, University of Georgia Press

• IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time, Punishment, Mind

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.119, University of Georgia Press

• POCKET, n. The cradle of motive and the grave of conscience. In woman this organ is lacking; so she acts without motive, and her conscience, denied burial, remains ever alive, confessing the sins of others.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Pockets, Alive, Sin

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.166, 谷月社

• REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Faith, Punishment, Followers

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.181, 谷月社

• OSTRICH, n. A large bird to which (for its sins, doubtless) nature has denied that hinder toe . . . . The absence of a good working pair of wings is no defect, for, as has been ingeniously pointed out, the ostrich does not fly.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Ostriches, Wings, Bird

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.176, University of Georgia Press

• Christian - One who follows the teachings of Christ insofar as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, God, Christian

  Ambrose Bierce (2007). “Essential Bierce: A Selection of the Writings of Ambrose Bierce”, Heyday Books

• Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Children, Two

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.34, University of Georgia Press

• Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Retirement, Women, Judging

  Ambrose Bierce (1906). “The Cynic's Word Book”, p.57, Lulu.com

• A man who piously shuts himself up to meditate upon the sin of wickedness and to keep it fresh in his mind joins a brotherhood of awful examples.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Men, Brotherhood, Mind

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.32, 谷月社

• DELUGE, n. A notable first experiment in baptism which washed away the sins (and sinners) of the world.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Baptism, World, Firsts

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.43, 谷月社

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