Sinful Tendencies Quotes

Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.

I think we have a sin problem in the world. It's so easy to say we have a race problem, but we got a sin problem.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

A few vices are sufficient to darken many virtues.

One of the problems with compromise in one area of Scripture is where do you stop compromising? If Christians accept the idea of human evolution, then why not accept the idea that our sinful tendencies are really just evolved tendencies?

Man’s will is free to follow his inclinations, but fallen man’s inclinations are always and invariably away from God.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.

All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide.

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

The depraved nature of man is well known. He has a natural bias toward his own interest, which will prevail ... unless checked.

Sin and the devil will always find helpers in our hearts.

Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to burn the world. Earth would become an hell; for future rewards when put off to a great distance, would cease to encourage, and future punishments to alarm.

"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."

Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious to the divine wrath and producing in us those works which the scripture calls 'works of.

There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.

Everybody has a sinful nature pulling them at every turn.

Our minds are affected by sin. Our hearts are affected by sin. Our wills are affected by sin. Our bodies are affected by sin.

Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world; therefore it is always to be mortified.

The first step towards attaining a higher standard of holiness is to realize more fully the amazing sinfulness of sin.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

Sin will pluck on sin.

Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.