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![Søren Kierkegaard](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651453632i/6172._UX200_CR0,41,200,200_.jpg)
“God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.”
― The Journals of Kierkegaard
― The Journals of Kierkegaard
![Ambrose Bierce](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1183231430i/14403._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Redemption, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religions, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.”
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
― The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
![Fulton J. Sheen](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1291388965i/2412._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.”
― Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
― Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary
![Dante Alighieri](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1651440425i/5031312._UX200_CR0,51,200,200_.jpg)
“I felt for the tormented whirlwinds
Damned for their carnal sins
Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.”
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Damned for their carnal sins
Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.”
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![John Steinbeck](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1182118389i/585._UX200_CR0,19,200,200_.jpg)
“I remember clearly the deaths of three men. One was the richest man of the century, who, having clawed his way to wealth through the souls and bodies of men, spent many years trying to buy back the love he had forfeited and by that process performed great service to the world and, perhaps, had much more than balanced the evils of his rise. I was on a ship when he died. The news was posted on the bulletin board, and nearly everyone recieved the news with pleasure. Several said, "Thank God that son of a bitch is dead."
Then there was a man, smart as Satan, who, lacking some perception of human dignity and knowing all too well every aspect of human weakness and wickedness, used his special knowledge to warp men, to buy men, to bribe and threaten and seduce until he found himself in a position of great power. He clothed his motives in the names of virtue, and I have wondered whether he ever knew that no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love. A bribed man can only hate his briber. When this man died the nation rang with praise...
There was a third man, who perhaps made many errors in performance but whose effective life was devoted to making men brave and dignified and good in a time when they were poor and frightened and when ugly forces were loose in the world to utilize their fears. This man was hated by few. When he died the people burst into tears in the streets and their minds wailed, "What can we do now?" How can we go on without him?"
In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, mo matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror....we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”
― East of Eden
Then there was a man, smart as Satan, who, lacking some perception of human dignity and knowing all too well every aspect of human weakness and wickedness, used his special knowledge to warp men, to buy men, to bribe and threaten and seduce until he found himself in a position of great power. He clothed his motives in the names of virtue, and I have wondered whether he ever knew that no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love. A bribed man can only hate his briber. When this man died the nation rang with praise...
There was a third man, who perhaps made many errors in performance but whose effective life was devoted to making men brave and dignified and good in a time when they were poor and frightened and when ugly forces were loose in the world to utilize their fears. This man was hated by few. When he died the people burst into tears in the streets and their minds wailed, "What can we do now?" How can we go on without him?"
In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, mo matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror....we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”
― East of Eden
![Brennan Manning](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1201097024i/27405._UX200_CR0,34,200,200_.jpg)
“The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show compassion; but that He cannot and will not have a relationship with pretenders in the Spirit.”
― The Ragamuffin Gospel
― The Ragamuffin Gospel
![Thornton Wilder](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206548453i/44061._UX200_CR0,45,200,200_.jpg)
“Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.”
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![Alistair Begg](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1401684785i/387751._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be published in heaven as a miracle that the Lord Jesus should set His heart's love upon people like us.”
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![Oscar Wilde](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1673611182i/3565._UX200_CR0,15,200,200_.jpg)
“Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
![Yevgeny Yevtushenko](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1267717630i/24320._UX200_CR0,9,200,200_.jpg)
“How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people's sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing.”
― Stolen Apples
― Stolen Apples
![E.A. Bucchianeri](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1517071693i/2798990._UX200_CR0,11,200,200_.jpg)
“If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.”
― Faust: My Soul be Damned for the World, Vol. 1
― Faust: My Soul be Damned for the World, Vol. 1
![Peter Kreeft](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1208974531i/4939.jpg)
“Our only qualification for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness. 'Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous but the sinners.' (Mk 2:17). Similarly, on an infinitely lower level, this book is for empty hearts, not full ones.”
― Making Sense Out of Suffering
― Making Sense Out of Suffering
![Abhijit Naskar](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1535400350i/13720247._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Ain’t No Sinner (The Sonnet)
When we think ourselves weak,
We become weak.
When we think ourselves sinner,
We become sinner most meek.
Yes we are fundamentally cruel and divisionistic,
Yes the evil in us is stronger than our good.
That's because our ancestors survived through cruelty,
They didn't have much scope to practice their good.
But we ain’t our ancestors in our way of life,
We don’t have to watch out for predators in every bush.
Then why do we still behave like predators ourselves,
Why don’t we break this tribalistic tradition of ambush!
No more cruelty either on ourselves or on those around!
Embolden your backbone into a fountain of kinship unbound.”
― The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
When we think ourselves weak,
We become weak.
When we think ourselves sinner,
We become sinner most meek.
Yes we are fundamentally cruel and divisionistic,
Yes the evil in us is stronger than our good.
That's because our ancestors survived through cruelty,
They didn't have much scope to practice their good.
But we ain’t our ancestors in our way of life,
We don’t have to watch out for predators in every bush.
Then why do we still behave like predators ourselves,
Why don’t we break this tribalistic tradition of ambush!
No more cruelty either on ourselves or on those around!
Embolden your backbone into a fountain of kinship unbound.”
― The Gentalist: There's No Social Work, Only Family Work
“He eagerly suffered for us when we were failing, as orphans. Will he cross his arms over our failures now that we are his adopted children?
His heart was gentle and lowly toward us when we were lost. Will his heart be anything different toward us now that we are found?
While we were still...He loved us in our mess then. He'll love us in our mess now. Our very agony in sinning is the fruit of our adoption. A cold heart would not be bothered. We are not who we were.”
― Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
His heart was gentle and lowly toward us when we were lost. Will his heart be anything different toward us now that we are found?
While we were still...He loved us in our mess then. He'll love us in our mess now. Our very agony in sinning is the fruit of our adoption. A cold heart would not be bothered. We are not who we were.”
― Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
![Shannon L. Alder](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1647739446i/1391130._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The only thing that pisses people off more than stating the truth is using Jesus to state it for you.”
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“While the law condemns anyone who breaks it, God loves sinners, even those who actively reject Him and disobey His laws. God’s moral law is much like the other laws that He created to govern the universe; it is inherently true.”
― Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
― Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
![Paul the Apostle](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1676650203i/20483201._UX200_CR0,26,200,200_.jpg)
“Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the worst. But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an example for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life.”
― 1 Timothy
― 1 Timothy
![Criss Jami](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620861879i/4860176._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“I agree that every saint has a past, but not that every sinner has a future. In this life we see a great many sinners dying precisely and directly because of sin.”
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“Kids are not born sinners, they are born innocent and will become whatever you project to them.
Stop projecting sin to them.”
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Stop projecting sin to them.”
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![Swami Vivekananda](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1301591370i/80592._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg)
“Hate not the most abject sinner, look not to his exterior. Turn thy gaze inward, where resides the Paramatman. Proclaim to the whole world thee, with trumpet voice, "There is no sin in thee, there is no misery in thee; thou art the reservoir of omnipotent power. Arise, awake, and manifest the Divinity within!”
― Thoughts on the Gita
― Thoughts on the Gita
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