Great Throughts Treasury

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Edwin Lewis

What did Resurrection mean but victory over death and therefore victory over sin and therefore evidence of a new power at work in the world and therefore the opening of the gates of a new life?

Death | Evidence | Life | Life | Power | Sin | Work | World |

Laurenti Magesa

The worst type of sin, in fact the only “mortal sin” which has enslaved man for the greater part of history, is the institutionalized sin. Under the institution, vice appears to be, or is actually turned into, virtue. Apathy toward evil is thus engendered; recognition of sin becomes totally effaced; sinful institutions become absolutized, almost idolized, and sin becomes absolutely moral.

Apathy | Evil | History | Man | Mortal | Sin | Virtue | Virtue | Vice |

C. C. Martindale

If the opposing sides are Christian, they share the sin of caricaturing their Faith; if the one side is Christian, and the other is not, Christians sin gravely if they are the aggressors.

Faith | Sin |

Robert M. Linder, fully Robert Mitchell Linder

Supported by the authority of all institutions, parenthood has come to amount to little more than a campaign against individuality. Every father and every mother trembles lest an offspring, in act or thought, should be different from his fellows; and the smallest display of uniqueness in a child becomes the signal for the application of drastic measures aimed at stamping out that small fire of noncompliance by which personal distinctness is expressed. In an atmosphere of anxiety, in a climate of apprehension, the parental conspiracy against children is planned.

Anxiety | Anxiety | Authority | Children | Conspiracy | Display | Father | Individuality | Little | Mother | Thought | Child |

Abraham Lincoln

Fourscore and seven years ago our father brought forth upon this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Father | Liberty | Men |

Jean Mouroux

To put the temporal in the place of God, when done with full deliberation, is the sin of pride in all its gravity.

Deliberation | God | Pride | Sin |

William Penn

If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.

Evil | Man | People | Sin |

Llewelyn Powys

It is the stupidity of our minds that prevents us from seeng existence as a mystery wilder than the dreams of Devil or God.

Devil | Dreams | Existence | God | Mystery | Stupidity |

Creole Proverbs

When the Devil goes to mass he hides his tail.

Devil |

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, fully Sir or Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

It is not God that is worshipped but the group or the authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority and not violation of integrity.

Authority | Disobedience | God | Integrity | Sin | God |

Jacques Rivière

What is the dogma of original sin but a means of making the things of the flesh enter a spiritual system?

Dogma | Means | Sin | System |

Red Jacket, aka Sagoyewatha NULL

We are told that your religion was given to your forefathers and has been handed down from father to son. We also have a religion which was given to our forefathers and has been handed down to us, their children. We worship in that way. It teaches us to be thankful for all the favors we receive, to love each other, and to be united. We never quarrel about religion.

Children | Father | Love | Receive | Religion | Worship |

Muriel Spark, fully Dame Muriel Sarah Camberg Spark

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

Love | Sin |

Ignatius E. Smith

The pleasure of sin is of short duration… It operates on a law of diminishing returns. The more often it is repeated, the more familiar with its face, the less pleasure sin gives.

Law | Pleasure | Sin |

Ignatius E. Smith

Sin is disappointing. Whoever got out of sin half as much pleasure as he expected?

Pleasure | Sin |