Elvis Costello Quotes

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.

Humanity is the sin of God.

Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that humans are punished for the sin of the first human pair but, rather, that humans seem inevitably to copy the sin of the first human pair.

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

I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.

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

Nor can the Apostle mean that Eve only sinned; or that she only was Deceived, for if Adam sinned willfully and knowingly, he became the greater Transgressor.

That so called "original sin" does not know any racial discrimination.

An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

Temptation has been here ever since the Garden of Eden.

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.

This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.

We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.

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.

Because of total depravity, you and I were desperate for God's grace before we were saved. Because of total depravity, you and I remain desperate for God's grace even after we're saved.

The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

In the West, people don't have any real problems. It's all based on bad conscience, a very Christian notion. I don't have any bad conscience. If there's a God that created us, if I am bad, it's his fault.

I don't believe in devils. Indifference and misunderstandings can create evil situations. Most of the time, people who appear to be evil are really victims of evil deeds.

The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.

But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.

The doctrine of free will is always in danger of robbing God of his honor

Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.