Quotes About Original sin

But that we are so totally depraved, is a truth which no one ever truly learned by being only told it.

Stories have haunted us and followed us from our beginning," Samuel said. "We carry them along with us like invisible tails—the story of original sin and the story of Cain and Abel. And I don't understand either of them. I don't understand them at all but I feel them.

Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon.

We are not accountable for the sins of "Adam".

What was the world's first computer? An Apple. Eve gave one to Adam.

What, then, can we do? We must return to the moral and spiritual foundations of our country and grapple with the consequences of our original sin.

The first time I saw my father-in-law's cotton, I though of the Original Sin, gardening being the root of the South's downfall.

There is so much good in a garden, if you don't count what happened to Adam and Eve.

The invitation on her face was as old as Eve. As potent as original sin.

Beginning with sin instead of creation is like trying to read a book by opening it in the middle: You don't know the characters and can't make sense of the plot.

The Bible says we were dead in our "trespasses and sins" (Eph. 2:1) and "were by nature children of wrath" (2:3, emphasis added). In other words, we were born physically alive but spiritually dead. We had neither the presence of God in our lives nor the knowledge of His ways.

As good heirs of the Bible, we think that a great misfortune necessarily follows a great infraction. In this respect the intellectual caste, in our world, is the penitential class par excellence, continuing the role of the clergy under the Old Regime. We have to call its members what they are: officials of original sin.

As some theologians have commented, if we're convinced that the starting point for our individual lives, or for the human project in general, is marked "original sin" rather than "original blessing," it's going to be all the more difficult to move on.

Pues el delito mayor del hombre es haber nacido.

We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name "Jesus" means: 'God saves'.

Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.

Your first father sinned, and your spokesmen rebelled against Me.

Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.