Hosea Ballou Quotes

Perhaps [transgression] is like a flash of lightning in the night which, from the beginning of time, gives a dense and black intensity to the night it denies, which lights up the night from the inside, from top to bottom, yet owes to the dark the stark clarity of its manifestation, its harrowing and poised singularity.

I love British cursing - the cadence of it, the joy in the sound of the words, and the vulgarity of it.

I learned from my father how to swear right and how to string it together for optimum effect/affect. I use it like karate. I bring it out when it's needed.

The next thing I would mention, and warn you against, is profaneness. This you know is forbidden by God.

Lying is the greatest of all sins.

I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.

Jesus is just a word I use to swear with.

Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.

I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language!

Let us consider that swearing is a sin of all others peculiarly clamorous, and provocative of Divine judgment.

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

Oh, by the way, I tend to use a lot of profanities. I do that for a reason: I like it.

It's a sin to swear.

... a mortal sin.

Are you ready to have your mind blown? Sometimes Ron Howard uses swear words.

People say I use foul language. I learnt swear words only from my father and YGP.

Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God.

My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.

Anything done against faith or conscience is sinful.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.

I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. There are worse things in life than being called a Lady.

I have so much respect for people that are my elders. You aren't going to hear me cursing around people that are 60 and 70 years old.

So that every Crime is a sinne; but not every sinne a Crime.

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.