126 Quotes About Depravity
- Author Charles H. Spurgeon
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Sin has sprung from a royal though evil stock, and if it be in the heart, it will struggle for the throne.
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- Author Blaise Pascal
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Knowing God without knowing our wretchedness leads to pride. Knowing our wretchedness without knowing God leads to despair. Knowing Jesus Christ is the middle course, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.
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- Author George Eliot
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How can a man’s candour be seen in all its lustre unless he has a few failings to talk of? But he had an agreeable confidence that his faults were all of a generous kind—impetuous, arm-blooded, leonine; never crawling, crafty, reptilian.
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- Author Philip Zaleski
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The unavoidable harshness of life surprised none of them, for they were Christians one and all, believing that they inhabited a fallen world, albeit one filled with God's grace.
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- Author Amy Astorga
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I could never understand the purpose of my kind. They are cruel, heartless beings. And the way they obtain legs is even crueler still. But what can be said about a being who is heartless even though they possess one?
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- Author Mea McMahon
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It is too easy to call the church political. The nature of fallen people is political. And they happen to make up the church. So the church is innately political. This cannot be helped. But it can be navigated if not always stomached.
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- Author Arthur C. Clarke
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As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.
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- Author Dean Koontz
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Only the human monster knew beauty and rejected it, knew truth and disdained it, knew peace and did not prefer it, unlike the tiger and the wolf who knew not.
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- Author H.W. Brands
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One with God is always a majority. But many have been burned at the stake while the boats were being counted. Thomas Reed
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