Original Sin Quotes

• Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.

  Karen Armstrong

  Christian, Jesus, Sin

  "Atoms and Eden: Conversations on Religion and Science". Book by Steve Paulson. Oxford University Press, p. 63, October 5, 2010.

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

  Fran Lebowitz

  Women, People, Original Thought

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Jan 14, 2011

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• Original sin is in us like our beard. We are shaved today and look clean; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long as we live.

  Martin Luther

  Spring, Long, Doe

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Years, Doctrine, Sin

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

  Peter Kreeft

  Done, Sin, Originals

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• Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious to the divine wrath and producing in us those works which the scripture calls 'works of.

  John Calvin

  Wrath, Soul, Scripture

  John Calvin (2009). “Institutes of the Christian Religion Vol. 1: Translated from the Original Latin, and Collated With the Author's Last Edition in French”, p.229, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer.... An instrument strung, but preferring to play itself because it thinks it knows the tune better than the Musician

  C. S. Lewis

  Mother, Pride, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Merit, Action

  Saint Thomas (Aquinas) (2015). “Nature and grace: selections from the Summa theologica”, p.109, Aeterna Press

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• 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

  Charles Hodge

  Men, Class, Age

  Charles Hodge (1872). “Systematic Theology”, p.238

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Christian, Orthodoxy, Sin

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name "Jesus" means: 'God saves'.

  Peter Kreeft

  Jesus, Mean, Self

  Peter Kreeft (2000). “Prayer for Beginners”, p.36, Ignatius Press

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

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Men, Perfection, Sin

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

  R. C. Sproul

  Heart, Loss, Desire

  R. C. Sproul (2016). “What is Reformed Theology?: Understanding the Basics”, p.95, Baker Books

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Atheism, Doctrine, Asceticism

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• 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.

  Max Lucado

  Grateful, Believe, Garden

  "An Interview With Max Lucado". Interview with David Jones, thebrinkonline.com.

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

  Susan Sarandon

  School, Originality, Sin

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• It is an end with priests and gods, if man becomes scientific. Moral: science is the thing forbidden in itself - it alone is forbidden. Science is the first sin, the germ of all sin, original sin. This alones is mortality: Thou shalt not know.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Firsts, Germs

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• 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.

  Thomas Campbell

  Writing, Wish, Maids

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  Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

  Helen Hayes

  Birthday, Courage, Growing Up

  "Showcase". Book by Roy Newquist, 1966.

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• I don't believe in "original sin." I don't believe in "guilt." I don't believe in villains or heroes - only right or wrong ways that individuals have taken, not by choice but by necessity or by certain still-uncomprehended influences in themselves, their circumstances, and their antecedents. This is so simple I'm ashamed to say it, but I'm sure it's true. In fact, I would bet my life on it! And that's why I don't understand why our propaganda machines are always trying to teach us, to persuade us, to hate and fear other people on the same little world that we live in.

  Tennessee Williams

  Hate, Hero, Believe

  Tennessee Williams, John S. Bak (2009). “New Selected Essays: Where I Live”, p.85, New Directions Publishing

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

  Richard Bach

  Limits, Sin, Messiah

  Richard Bach (2007). “Messiah’s Handbook”, p.167, Jaico Publishing House

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• Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all as if in sleep - not conscious of what he is doing, not conscious of what he is saying, not conscious of all that surrounds him. He moves surrounded in a dark cloud of unawareness. According to Gautama the Buddha, this is the original sin: to live unconsciously, to act out of unconsciousness. In fact, the word 'sin' comes from a root which means forgetfulness. Sin simply means that we are not conscious, aware, alert, that we don't have any inner light to guide us.

  Rajneesh

  Moving, Mean, Sleep

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

  Jose Bergamin

  Sin, Poet, Thinker

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• Come away, my dear brethren, fly, fly, fly for your lives to Jesus Christ; fly to a bleeding God, fly to a throne of grace; and beg of God to break your heart; beg of God to convince you of your actual sins; beg of God to convince you of your original sin; beg of God to convince you of your self-righteousness; beg of God to give you faith, and to enable you to close with Jesus Christ.

  George Whitefield

  Jesus, Heart, Self

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• 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.

  Steve Coogan

  Believe, Men, Years

  "Steve Coogan Doesn't Believe in Fairies". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.

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