55 Quotes About Original-sin

In a garden long ago, the two majestic beings God had created used their capacities for purposes other than reflecting the goodness of their Creator. Adam and Eve commandeered their design to worship themselves instead of God. Their children and grandchildren have been doing the same ever since.

Satan’s inquisitiveness would eventually be inherited by the offspring of Adam and Eve. The inquisitiveness was the original sin.

No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification by faith, in more strong, more clear and express terms, than Arminius has done.

Few know it, but the Devil rewards insurrection. After all, rebellion is the original sin, and he did conceive it.

The search for a policy to overcome original sin is not a coherent political project.

If there is any original sin it is the human propensity for self-torment.

If there is any original sin, it is the human propensity for self-torment.

I have found that this is pretty radical notion for anyone who was raised with a strong Christian background. Within that religious tradition there is an emphasis on original sin, which dictates that we area bacically not good at all but must work for our salvation. Within the Buddhist tradition we are saying the opposite: actually you are basically good. You are basically wise. You are basically kind. You just need to discover that truth and develop confidence in it.

In his natural perversion, a man wants to lie with a hooker, wed a virgin, and keep both.