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An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin. -- Thomas Campbell
...in certain moods, no man can weigh this world without throwing in something, somehow like Original Sin, to strike the uneven balance. -- Herman Melville
The Original Sin which brought us to the brink of bankruptcy and dictatorship was the Federal Income Tax Amendment and its illegitimate child, Federal Aid. -- Tom Anderson
Original Sin has great marketing potential. -- Gene Edward Veith Jr.
The most original sin is not the thinker's but the poet's. -- Jose Bergamin
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met. -- Fran Lebowitz
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young. The old grow beyond corruption very quickly. -- Malcolm Bradbury
Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue. -- John Shelby Spong
Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate. -- Karen Armstrong
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it. -- Helen Hayes
When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin. -- Olympia Dukakis
I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. -- Jock Sturges
There's no such thing as an original sin. -- Elvis Presley
The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't. -- Richard Bach
On parochial school I was told I had an overabundance of original sin. -- Susan Sarandon
Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs. -- Jerome K. Jerome
Secrecy is the original sin. The fig leaf in the Garden of Eden. The basic crime against love. -- Timothy Leary
Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different. -- Oscar Wilde
True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin. -- Charles Baudelaire
Then be sure of one thing: The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have. The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't. -- Richard Bach
Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world -- Charles Hodge
Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance. -- Henri Matisse
Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious to the divine wrath and producing in us those works which the scripture calls 'works of. -- John Calvin
We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name "Jesus" means: 'God saves'. -- Peter Kreeft
There's no such thing as an original sin. -- Elvis Presley
I was told I had an overabundance of original sin. -- Susan Sarandon
Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word. -- Willard Van Orman Quine
The German people is not marked by original sin, but by original nobility. -- Alfred Rosenberg
The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin. -- Sargent Shriver
There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody. -- Desmond Harrington
Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that. I don't shoot that any more. -- Jock Sturges
Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world. -- Charles Hodge
The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering. -- Walter Kaufmann
It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness. -- Hans Jonas
I believe that the writers of Genesis had detected the inherent selfishness in human nature that I propose is in our genes, and invented the myth of original sin to account for it. It's an image. I am not acting as an exegete - I don't interpret scripture. -- Christian de Duve
Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that humans are punished for the sin of the first human pair but, rather, that humans seem inevitably to copy the sin of the first human pair. -- David Novak
The language of sin was universal, the original Esperanto. -- Joe Hill
There is no original sin. It's all been done before. -- Louis Dudek
Original sin reassures us that our slip was not the first. -- Mason Cooley
There has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal. -- Edward Abbey
That so called "original sin" does not know any racial discrimination. -- Desmond Tutu
Consciousness is the original sin: consciousness of the inevitability of our death. -- David Cronenberg
Money is the original sin in politics and I am not sinless. -- Barack Obama
Every life I start with her, my original sin. I know myself through her. -- Ann Brashares
The sooner the doctrine of original sin disappears, the better it is for theology. -- Georgia Harkness
The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin. -- R. C. Sproul
Deadwood was a place created by a series of accidents. A kind of original sin. -- David Milch
Original sin is the only doctrine that's been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
We are all afflicted by original sin; people succumbing to temptations to do and to be. -- Desmond Tutu
All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Original sin is the proclivity to say "my will be done" instead of "thy will be done." -- Peter Kreeft
The historian, like everyone else, is forever trapped in the egocentric predicament, and 'presentism' is his original sin. -- Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin. -- Swami Vivekananda
Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sinâ?¦ I poked a badger with a spoon. -- Eddie Izzard
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost. -- Barbara Tuchman
The Civil War was about a lot of things, but the core of it was slavery. That was the original sin. -- John Fund
Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations. -- Aldous Huxley
Blood sin and desecration of the race are the original sin in this world and the end of a humanity which surrenders to it. -- Adolf Hitler
Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it. That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it. Death is going to die. -- Philip Pullman
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ. -- Thomas Aquinas
Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue. -- Thomas Keneally
Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life. -- Rebecca West
The doctrine of original sin is the doctrine according to which divine forgiveness makes known the accidental nature of human mortality, thus permitting an entirely new anthropological understanding. -- James Alison
Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin. -- Charles Baudelaire
Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it. -- Edward Abbey
I always had a problem with original sin; I always had a problem with the exclusivity of the church and a lot of the things that the nuns taught me. -- Susan Sarandon
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. -- John Wesley
Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation. -- Pearl S. Buck
In the past we believed both sexes were born with original sin. Today, we have come to unconsciously believe in the original sin of boys, but the original innocence of girls. -- Warren Farrell
To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall? -- Emile M. Cioran
The original sin of Republicans is greed. Everyone understands greed. Everybody wants to get theirs. The original sin of Democrats is pity. Greed is more attractive, and a better motivator, than pity. -- John Scalzi
Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all. -- Donald Miller
Also when it is a case of only upholding some spiritual tenet, such as infant baptism, original sin, and unnecessary separation, then . . . we conclude that . . . the stubborn sectaries must be put to death. -- Martin Luther
I like the fact that people come together who have shared values, but I don't believe that a man died 2,000 years ago and was crucified on a cross to save me from my original sin. -- Steve Coogan

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