Transgression Quotes

• The longer men sin, the more easily they can; for every act of transgression weakens conscience, stupefies intellect, hardens hearts, adds force to bad habits, and takes force from good example. And, surely, there is nothing in such associations; as wicked affinities will insure to the sinner in the future state, to incline him to repentance.

  Edward Thomson

  Heart, Men, Wicked

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• The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied.

  Haile Selassie

  Men, Rights, Justice

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 6 October 1963

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• Let us learn how the love of Christ, received into the heart, triumphs gradually but surely over all sin, transforms character, turning even its weakness into strength, and so, from the depths of transgression and the very gates of hell, raises men to God.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Heart, Character, Men

  Alexander Maclaren (1873). “Sermons preached in Manchester”, p.76

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• Justice prevails over transgression when she comes to the end of the race.

  Hesiod

  Race, Justice, Literature

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• There is no sin or transgression, pain or sorrow, which is outside of the healing power of His Atonement.

  C. Scott Grow

  God, Christian, Spiritual

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• Let us look upon a crucified Christ, the remedy of all our miseries. His cross hath procured a crown, his passion hath expiated our transgression. His death hath disarmed the law, his blood hath washed a believer's soul. This death is the destruction of our enemies, the spring of our happiness, and the eternal testimony of divine love.

  Stephen Charnock

  Happiness, Death, Christian

  "Christ Our Passover".

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• If you break a discipline once, the next transgression becomes much easier.

  Gil Blake

  Discipline, Next, Break

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• Transgressions are to be understood and corrected, not dwelt upon or agonized over.

  Barbara Ann Kipfer

  Understood

  Barbara Ann Kipfer (2009). “863 Buddhist Ways to Conquer Life's Little Challenges”, p.112, Ulysses Press

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• God turns on its head one form of evil - suffering - in order to defeat another form of evil - that is, our transgressions. It happened at the cross, and it occurs in the lives of followers of Christ every day.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Order, Evil, Suffering

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• Pain involves the violation or transgression of the border between inside and outside, and it is through this transgression that I feel the border in the first place

  Sara Ahmed

  Pain, Borders, Firsts

  Sara Ahmed (2014). “Cultural Politics of Emotion”, p.35, Edinburgh University Press

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• Not only does the Atonement of Jesus Christ overcome the effects of the Fall of Adam and make possible the remission of our individual sins and transgressions, but His Atonement also enables us to do good and become better in ways that stretch far beyond our mortal capacities.

  David A. Bednar

  Jesus, Fall, Way

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• Anna Karenina is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. Its gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, its the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Falling In Love, Children, Husband

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• No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.

  Eric Hoffer

  Motivational, Book, Thinking

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• It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God,. to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits , and humbly to implore his protection and favor... beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed

  George Washington

  Thanksgiving, Wise, Grateful

  Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, Issued by President George Washington, at the request of Congress, on October 3, 1789

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• That which of all things unfits man for the reception of Christ as a Savior, is not gross profligacy and outward, vehement transgression, but it is self-complacency, fatal self-righteousness and self-sufficiency.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Men, Self, Complacency

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• Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Beauty, Vices, Coercion

  "The Limits of State Action". Book by Wilhelm von Humboldt. Chapter 8, 1792.

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• Is not all creation a transgression?

  Gilbert Simondon

  Creation

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• In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.

  Hannah Arendt

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Character

  Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.241, University of Chicago Press

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• There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.

  Herman Melville

  Order, Law, Winking

  Herman Melville (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Herman Melville (Illustrated)”, p.2012, Delphi Classics

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• The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.

  Henry James Sumner Maine

  Religious, Divine, Penalties

  Henry Sumner Maine, Sir, J. H. Morgan (2000). “Ancient Law”, p.14, Beard Books

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• Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain. At its best, this music draws attention to complex dimensions of ghetto life ignored by most Americans. Indeed, gangsta rap's in-your-face style may do more to force America to confront crucial social problems than a million sermons or political speeches.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Rap, Ghetto, Gangsta

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• Grace can pardon our ungodliness and justify us with Christ's righteousness; it can put the Spirit of Jesus Christ within us; it can help us when we are down; it can heal us when we are wounded; it can multiply pardons, as we through frailty multiply transgressions.

  John Bunyan

  Jesus, Grace, Spirit

  John Bunyan (1850). “The Riches of Bunyan”, p.89

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• Was it not most meet that a woman should first see the risen Saviour? She was first in the transgression; let her be first in the justification. In yon garden she was first to work our wo; let her in that other garden be the first to see Him who works our weal. She takes first the apple of that bitter tree which brings us all our sorrow; let her be the first to see the Mighty Gardener, who has planted a tree which brings forth fruit unto everlasting life.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Easter, Garden, Apples

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• I cannot see him. I cannot have a relationship with my father and be morally consistent... I lived with all these adopted children, so they are my family. To say Soon-Yi was not my sister is an insult to all adopted children.

  Ronan Farrow

  Children, Father, Insult

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• Without a knowledge of the gospel plan, transgression seems natural, innocent, even justified.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Justified, Innocent, Natural

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