Jimmy Carter Quotes

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.

I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God recognizes I will do this and forgives me.

Today's man of the world proclaims that sin, and his enterprising in sin, are a part of modern living, but it is not modern. It goes back to Adam and Eve - to desire and the temptation to know - to experience evil.

I don't just commit sin. Apart from God, I am sinful. My problem is not just what I do; it's who I am without His nature.

Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.

There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

Gluttony and Lust are the only sins that abuse something that is essential to our survival.

We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners.

The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.

There is the seed of all sins--of the vilest and worst of sins--in the best of men.

The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats the Fall.

The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake: a voracious appetite, inflamed with eroticism, demanding more indulgence more often until a degenerative spiral captures the soul and drags us on a never ending descent into deeper patterns of immorality and illicit behaviour... Lust goes beyond the sexual. Lust can show itself in a variety of forms: covetousness, gluttony, drunkeness, power hunger, or unbridled ambition, to name a few

The very concept of sin comes from the Bible. Christianity offers to solve a problem of its own making! Would you be thankful to a person who cut you with a knife in order to sell you a bandage?

I am a Catholic. Basically, the Catholic religion is 'If it feels good - stop.'

As we mature personally, as our families mature, and as our churches mature, we need the doctrine of sin more, not less; and we need to keep growing in rightly understanding and applying this doctrine. Be assured that this is no less true if you're a pastor or teacher or ministry worker. There's no pastoral privilege in relation to sin. There's no ministry exemption from the opposition of the flesh. There's only a heightened responsibility to oppose sin and to weaken the flesh, as an example to the flock.

There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut.

Original sin reassures us that our slip was not the first.

According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride.

Alright, let's admit it, we Jews killed Christ - but it was only for three days.

Sin scorches us most after it comes under the scrutinizing light of God's forgiveness and not before

All the seven deadly sins are peccadilloes but without three of them, Pride, Lust, and Sloth, poetry might never have been born.

Make this man a saint now, OK?