Mark Twain Quotes About Sinners

• But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sympathy, Spiritual

  Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiographical Writings”, p.338, Penguin

• But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Brother, Prayer

  Mark Twain (1960). “The autobiography of Mark Twain: including chapters now published for the first time”

• Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Atheism, Saint

• No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Twenties, Firsts

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