Quotes about Original sin

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One of the effects of original sin is an instinctive prejudice in favour of our own selfish desires. We see things as th — Thomas Merton, No Man Is an Island
when the serpent breathed the poison of his pride, the desire to be as God, into the hearts of our first parents, that t — Andrew Murray, Humility
I have found that this is pretty radical notion for anyone who was raised with a strong Christian background. Within tha — Lodro Rinzler, Walk Like a Buddha: Even if Your Boss Sucks, Your Ex Is Torturing You, and You're Hungover Again
if everything that is happening in the world is traceable to our inability to understand what is happening in the world. — Gerald Hausman, The American Storybag
No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification by faith, in more s — John Wesley
The rising influence of lay piety is particularly marked upon the Mariological controversies of the late medieval period — The Intellectual Origins of the European Reformation
A man treats his own faults as original sin and supposes them scattered everywhere with the seed of Adam. He supposes th — G.K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America
Before eating from the tree of knowledge, Adam and Eve had no notion of Good and evil.They were kicked out of paradise, — Haroutioun Bochnakian, The Human Consensus and The Ultimate Project Of Humanity