 If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself. Topics: Service, Work |
| The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness. Topics: Sin
Source: The Problem of Pain |
| We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin. Topics: Sin, Conscience
Source: The Problem of Pain |
| Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time. Topics: Sin, Time |
| All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt. Topics: Sin, Morality
Source: The Problem of Pain |
| Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us. Topics: Sin
Source: Letters to Malcolm |
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| We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument. Hence all sin, whatever else it is, is sacrilege. Topics: Sin
Source: Letters to Malcolm |
| Of that intimate laughter between fellow professionals, which of all earthly powers is strongest to make men do very bad things before they are yet, individually, very bad men. Topics: Sin, Rebellion, Laughter |
| The extremity of its evil had passed beyond all struggle into some state which bore a horrible similarity to innocence. Topics: Sin, Struggles |
| This act of self-will on the part of the creature, which constitutes an utter falseness to its true creaturely position, is the only sin that can be conceived as the Fall. Topics: Sin, Rebellion
Source: The Problem of Pain |
| We are all fallen creatures and all very hard to live with. Topics: Sin |
| I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else. Topics: Sin |
