Nikolai Berdyaev Quotes

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

Allah hates disbelievers.

Every sect is a certificate that God has not plainly revealed his will to man. To each reader the Bible conveys a different meaning.

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

Classical theology defines sin as 'rebellion against God.' The answer is not incorrect as much as it is shallow and insulting to the human being. Every person deserves to be treated with dignity even if he or she is a 'rebellious sinner'.

Laughing has always been considered by theologians as a crime.

You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand." He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?

Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.

All hurricanes are acts of God because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God and they were recipients of the judgment of God for that.

Theologians consider that it was the sin of pride, the sinful thought conceived in an instant: non serviam: I will not serve. That instant was his [Lucifer's] ruin.

The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.

Not only commission makes a sin. A man is guilty of all those sins he hateth not. If I cannot avoid all, yet I will hate all.

Science takes things apart to see how they work. Religion puts things together to see what they mean.

He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of all; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience.

Original sin is not only the violation of a positive command … but … attempts … to abolish fatherhood, destroying its rays which permeate the created world, placing in doubt the truth about God who is Love and leaving man with only a sense of the master-slave relationship.

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

Peoples which bastardize themselves, or let themselves be bastardized, sin against the will of eternal Providence.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness. That promise enslaves us until we believe that God is more to be desired than life itself (Psalm 63:3). Which means that the power of sin's promise is broken by the power of God's.

Pardon, we beseech Thee, all our offences of omission and commission; and grant that in all our thoughts, words, and actions, we may conform to Thy known will manifested in our consciences, and in the revelations of Jesus Christ our Saviour.

It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community.

Word to God, we murderers.

Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand.

We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.

Farsighted theologians are now working to mine the eternal metal from the teachings of Jesus and to forge it for all time.