SIN

SIN - 1

But each one is tried by being drawn out and enticed by his own desire.  Then the desire, when it becomes fertile, gives birth to sin; in turn sin, when it has been carried out, brings forth death? – Disciple James – James 1:14, 15HOLY SCRIPTURES

I can resist everything except temptation. – Oscar Wilde

Character is what you are in the dark. – Dwight Moody

If you lie down with dogs, you’ll get up with fleas.  – Katherine Hepburn

Is the arousal of desires wrong?  Even legitimate desires of whatever nature, are sometimes difficult to satisfy.  For example, if one of your favorite foods is unavailable, you will probably not feel content if you constantly stare at pictures of it in magazines or books.  Likewise, a smoker trying to kick the habit will not increase his chances of doing so by spending time longingly watching other people smoke.  This only leads to frustration. – Viewpoint 

The mouth obeys poorly when the heart murmurs. – Voltaire

Sex is the thing that takes the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble. – John Barrymore.

Be good and you will be lonesome. – Mark Twain

As long as the house of the Holy Spirit remains a haven for criminals, the reputation of the church will remain in ruins. – Sinead O’Connor

Without forgiveness there is no future. – Desmond Tutu

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad.  Good pride represents our dignity and self-respect.  Bad pride is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.  – John C. Maxwell

Below the naval is neither religion nor truth. – Italian Proverb                    

Love is a law.  Desire is a snare. – Victor Hugo – THE MAN WHO LAUGHS

I desire to go to Hell, not to Heaven.  In Hell I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, but in Heaven are only beggars, hermits, monks and apostles. – Niccolo Machiavelli

I like restraint, if it doesn’t go too far. – Mae West

A habit is something you can do without thinking—which is why most of us have so many of them. – Frank A. Clark

Most people want to be delivered from temptation, but would like to keep in touch. – Robert Orien

Whatever begins in anger ends in shame. – Winston Churchill

SIN - 2

 “Above all things have intense love for one another,because love covers a multitude of sins.” – Apostle Peter – 1 Peter 4:8HOLY SCRIPTURES

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy.  God will forgive you, but the bureaucracy won’t. – Hymen Rickover                                             

I’m extremely concerned that Miley Cyrus thinks it’s cool being naked and licking sledgehammers in your videos.  You will obscure your talent by allowing yourself to be pimped, whether it’s the music business or yourself doing the pimping. – Sinead O’connor

Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret. – Alphra Behn

It says something about our times when we use the word ‘sinful’ to describe a really good dessert. – Unknown

“The wolves became lambs. Such transformations occur in the last agonies of life.  However different and imperfect the various sketches of religion are, even when belief is shapeless—there is a trembling of the soul.” – Victor Hugo – THE MAN WHO LAUGHS

If God didn’t exist, it would be necessary to invent Him. – Voltaire

From a religious point of view, if God thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people. – (Senator) Howard Dean

To sin by silence, when we should protest, make cowards out of men. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It has been said that when a human being stops believing in God, they believe in nothing.  The truth is much worse—they believe in anything. – Malcomb Muggeridge

Any time you got nothing to do, and lots of time to do it—come on up. – Mae West (to Cary Grant) – I’M NO ANGEL

People seldom do what they believe in.  They do what is convenient—then repent. – Bob Dylan

The wages of sin is death, but by the time they take taxes out, it’s just sort of a tired feeling. – Paula Poundstone

I did nothave sex with that woman! – Bill Clinton

No change of circumstance can change a defect in character. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is just a system for getting someone to call you darling after sex. – Julien Barnes

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that’s the essence of humanity. – George Bernard Shaw

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. – St. Augustine

SIN - 3

“For all have sinned and fell short of the glory of God.” – Apostle Paul – Rom. 3:23  – HOLY SCRIPTURES

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions. – Reinhold Niebuhr

Ignorance is not innocence but sin. – Robert Browning

The demand for porn, like the demand for drugs, is an addiction that feeds on the notion that there is no value above immediate self-gratification.  The root of the problem, likely, is people are addicted to an idea—that life is lived for personal pleasure alone.  – Charles Colson                  

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ. – Martin Luther

It wasn’t the apple in the tree that caused all the trouble.  It was the pair on the ground.-- Unknown

Saying I’m Christian and gay proves nothing. The question shouldn’t be, can a person be homosexual and still belong to God?  But rather, is homosexuality right or wrong according to the Bible? – Joe Dallas (Writer & former homosexual)

Have your spouse as the standard of beauty.  This is one of the great devastating effects of pornography; you lust after people and compare your spouse to them.  It’s impossible to be satisfied in your marriage if you don’t have a standard that is biblical; that standard is always your spouse. – Mark Driscoll

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality. – Mohandas Gandhi      

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle. – George Washington

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked man than it is loved by the good. – Buddha

Pornography tells lies about women.  But pornography tells the truth about men.  – John Stoltenberg

You know that look women get when they want sex?  Me neither. – Drew Carey

The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth on cable television, and now unlimited pornography on the Internet. – Phyllis Schlafly

Human selfishness leads to the greatest sins. – Gary Pulliam

Beware of the woman who thinks much of her glory, but little of her reputation. – Victor Hugo

SIN - 4

“Everyone that keeps on looking at a woman so as to have a passion for her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.” – Jesus Christ – Matt. 5:28 – Apostle Matthew – HOLY SCRIPTURES                                             

An FBI academy report found that 86% of all rapists interviewed regularly consumed pornography. – Charles Colson 

Sex is more exciting on the screen and between the pages than between the sheets. – Andy Warhol

Sex is part of nature.  I go along with nature. – Marilyn Monroe

I’ve used it and people who have seen it say it has value in helping them understand their feelings.  It is healthy to show a movie like DEEP THROAT. – “Rev” Ted McIlvenna – (After showing the porn film to 300 to 400 people as a sexologist in 1971)

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope?  If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t. – George Bernard Shaw

Pornography leads to mental images not easily erased, like a tattoo on your mind.   – Paul Bangs (Circuit overseer)                                       

In today’s world the availability of pornography is ubiquitous on the Internet.  We do not have to look for such sites—they look for us! – Gary Pulliam

The biggest threat to our well-being is the absence of moral clarity and purpose. – Unknown 

“Before I can live with other folks, I’ve got to live with myself.  The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” – Atticus Finch to Scout – Harper Lee – TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD

Morality is truth in full bloom. – Victor Hugo

‘They’ told us that, if we’d relax, take our clothes off, and not get all uptight about it, that there would be no more sex crimes.  So we let it all hang out—and the incidence of rape increased 10% in one year. – Paul Harvey

If pornography releases sexual tension, why don’t we send recipe books to the starving? – Andre Dworken

 “Every other sin that a man may commit is outside his body, but whoever practices sexual immorality is sinning against his own body.” Apostle Paul – 1 Cor. 6:18HOLY BIBLE      

Those who stand for nothing will fall for anything. – Alexander Hamilton

Morality is not the doctrine of how we make ourselves happy, but how we make ourselves worthy of happiness. – Immanuel Kant                 

SIN - 5

“I have made a covenant with my eyes, so how could I show improper attention to a virgin?” – Moses – Job 31:1HOLY SCRIPTURES                  

An unfamiliar-looking email, once opened, may explode into a pornographic picture designed in such a way as to make exiting from it difficult.  Even if a person gets only a glimpse of it before deleting it, the image has already made an impression on his mind.– Gary Pulliam

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will. – Joan of Arc

I remember the first time I had sex—I kept the receipt. – Groucho Marx

Pornography is also an acceptance of all forms of fornication!  It serves as spiritual nerve gas – It comes in the gate – In ancient times the gate was the weakest part of a fortified city. – Paul Bangs (Circuit overseer)

Happiness is a good cigar, a good meal, and a good woman—or a bad woman.  It depends on how much happiness you can handle. – George Burns

People seldom do what they believe in.  They do what is convenient—then repent. – Bob Dylan

“Let the marriage be honorable among all, and let the marriage bed be without defilement, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers.” – Apostle Paul – Heb. 13:4 – HOLY SCRIPTURES                                                             

How times have changed!  A few generations ago songs were about love and romance. Songs are now about sex and violence.  And we wonder why modern relationships suffer? – Gary Pulliam

A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction. – J. G. Ballard

 

 

 

 

 

                                               

 

 

 

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