Edwin Louis Cole Quotes

The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature.

It is a proof of our natural bias to evil, that gain is slower and harder than loss in all things good; but in all things bad getting is quicker and easier than getting rid of.

The beast for me is greed. Whether you read Dante, Swift, or any of these guys, it always boils down to the same thing: the corruption of the soul.

The priests, either from indulgence or carelessness, have allowed the wicked to give loose reins to their lusts

Man loves his own ruin. The cup is so sweet that though he knows it will poison him, yet he must drink it. And the harlot is so fair, that though he understands that her ways lead down to hell, yet like a bullock he follows to the slaughter till the dart goes through his liver. Man is fascinated and bewitched by sin.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap.

The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.

We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.

Bad company corrupts good character.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

And it is to rock the soul and lead the person to immorality, corruption - to forget their prayers, to forget their God. And thus the world has partaken of the spirit of the Negro race, accepting their ways.

Evil changes everybody!

When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.

The moral fiber of the American people is beset by rot and decay

... the sin of drunkenness which is the root of all sins.

The King, long in the habit of drowning his cares in wine, plunges deeper and deeper; the Queen cries out but, but sins on.

What is the cause of the great overflow of Vice in this age

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.

Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

Of all vices take heed of drunkenness; other vices are but fruits of disordered affections--this disorders, nay, banishes reason; other vices but impair the soul--this demolishes her two chief faculties, the understanding and the will; other vices make their own way--this makes way for all vices; he that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

How easily the routine of sin establishes itself.

It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.

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