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Quotes About Iniquity

When the Head and members are despised, then the whole Christ is despised, for the whole Christ, Head and body, is that just man against whom deceitful lips speak iniquity.
~ St. Augustine of Hippo
envy is the one deadly sin that no American can ever admit to...
~ Michael Gruber
As it says in Job—"They that plow iniquity and sow mischief shall reap the same.
~ Brad Thor
When iniquity sits in the judgement seat, good men must take their appeals to a higher court.
~ Stephen R. Lawhead
Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity.
~ Edward Rutherfurd
Down there,' he said, 'are people who will follow any dragon, worship any god, ignore any iniquity. All out of a kind of humdrum, everyday badness. Not the really high, creative loathesomeness of the great sinners, but a sort of mass-produced darkness of the soul.
~ Terry Pratchett
Who will rise up against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? —Psalms 94:16
~ Katherine Kurtz
3 Maccabees 2:4-5 Thou didst destroy those who aforetime did iniquity, among whom were giants trusting in their strength and boldness, bringing upon them a boundless flood of water. Thou didst burn up with fire and brimstone the men of Sodom, workers of arrogance, who had become known of all for their crimes, and didst make them an example to those who should come after.[43] [notice "making an example for those after" that is also referenced in Jude 7]
~ Brian Godawa
Let us go whither the omens of the Gods and the iniquity of our enemies call us. The die is now cast." XXXIII.
~ Suetonius
from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
~ Ken Johnson
Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
~ C. S. Lewis
In all things preserve integrity; and the consciousness of thine own uprightness will alleviate the toil of business, soften the hardness of ill-success and disappointments, and give thee an humble confidence before God, when the ingratitude of man, or the iniquity of the times may rob thee of other rewards.
~ Barbara Paley
It [gaming] is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief.
~ George Washington
Born in inquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.
~ Thorstein Veblen
For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
~ St. Jerome
Wherever you are, somebody's inflicting horror on another human being. It's just that there are some environments where it's easier to get away with it.
~ Val McDermid
You who are Prejudice, Abuse, Ignominy, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, Fanaticism, beware of the wide-eyed urchin. He will grow up.
~ Victor Hugo
Whoever you may be, if your name is Prejudice, Abuse, Ignorance, Oppression, Iniquity, Despotism, Injustice, Fanaticism, Tyranny, beware of the gaping gamin. The little fellow will grow up.
~ Victor Hugo
Sin is the only heritage of the natural man...
~ James Baldwin
Iniquity shall be increased above that which now thou see, or that thou hast heard long ago.
~ Compton Gage
Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
~ C. S. Lewis
But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.
~ Thomas Browne
Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my own iniquity; let's even smile a little. After all, there is no harm in smiling.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
What are the present governments of Europe, but a scene of iniquity and oppression? What is that of England? Do not its own inhabitants say, It is a market where every man has his price, and where corruption is common traffic, at the expense of a deluded people? No wonder, then, that the French Revolution is traduced.
~ Thomas Paine