David Novak Quotes

The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.

God may not accept a person to forgive him his sins, without an atonement, else he must give free license to sin both in angels and men, and then sin were no sin, and our God were no God.

You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.

I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.

God will not forgive us if we fail.

God created a good world that was subjected to futility because of the sinful, treasonous choice of the first human beings.

If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

Many without punishment, but none without sin.

We have a generation of people who think they can stand before the judgment seat of God despite their sins.

Then the old man's face hardened. "What about you young man?" he asked flatly. "Would you like to get what you deserve?" Jones let that question hang in the air for a moment, then sighed, shook his head, and said "Me? I surely don't want what I deserve. I'm hoping for mercy, not justice.

Only when we understand the holiness of God will we understand the depth of our sin.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

There's no such thing as an original sin.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

We have no choice but to be guilty. God is unthinkable if we are innocent.

We are responsible for actions performed in response to circumstances for which we are not responsible.

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.

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.