Depravity Quotes

Depravity Quote of the day

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

Without a heart transformed by the grace of Christ, we just continue to manage external and internal darkness.

We instantly believe everything we think. Isn't that insane? It's good for us to explore the depravity of our minds, so we know we are just as crazy as everyone else!

Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace.

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

The portions of a woman which appeal to man's depravity Are constructed with considerable care.

Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.

When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on, by acting as a fixed point.

Men are so quick to blame the gods: they say that we devise their misery. But they themselves- in their depravity- design grief greater than the griefs that fate assigns.

What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.

Whatever vices and corruptions men see in the lives of their ministers will not be attributed to the depravity of their old nature which still abides in them, but to the gospel.

Nobody ever became depraved all at once. [Lat., Nemo repente fuit turpissimus.]

There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.

To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.

Competition is all about you. It's about feeding your selfish needs. It feeds the depravity of your heart.

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

In the acceptance of depravity the sense of the past is most truly captured. What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time.

Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can be, but he has no holiness, that is, no supreme love of God

Salvation now consists of a deep wrestling in our souls with the sinfulness of our hearts, the depth of our depravity, and the desperation of our need for his grace.

We can never grasp the extent of our depravity until we recognize the excellencies of our created dignity

As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful.

We have all of us to some extent become inured to a culture where viciousness and depravity are simply taken for granted, like some hideous wallpaper we have lived with for years.

A lack of doxology leads to depravity.

Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.

It is of interest to note that most secular humanists continue to belabor the horrors of the Inquisition in order to establish the moral depravity of Christianity.

The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people

You'd better hurry up to the Gard and back. God knows what depravity we might get up to here without your guidance.

I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.

Man's want of original righteousness and of holy affections toward God, and the corruption of his moral nature and his bias toward evil is called depravity

To discover depravity in those whom we have loved, is one of the most exquisite tortures to a virtuous mind, and the conviction is often rejected before it is finally admitted.

Although your mind works, your heart is darkened with depravity; and without a pure heart there can be no complete and true consciousness

It is not depravity that afflicts the human race so much as a general lack of intelligence.

The Gospel worldview equips the artist with a unique combination of optimism and realism about life.

The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie

Actually, depravity can be terribly boring if you don't smoke or drink.

Only the man who extols the purity of love devoid of desire, is capable of the depravity of a desire devoid of love.

"Secret migration" across borders is a form of human degradation and evidence of the depravity of the human conscience.

there's a natural depravity in inanimate things that's quite shocking, when you think of it.

You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.

It is when my umbrella turns inside out that I am convinced of the total depravity of inanimate things.

We've defined decency down now that we look at the entertainment value of it, whether the acting is good, the writing is good, the story is good, no matter the depravity, we'll watch it.

It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.

The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.

When virtue has slept, it will arise again all the fresher.

Backward we are naturally to all good things, and it is a lesson of grace to learn to go forward in the ways of God.

we lived depravityand called it truth, silencingour dreaming, andour love, discardingthings holy.

You cannot change people but you can change the system so that people are not pushed into doing evil things.

True gospel preaching always changes the heart. It either awakens it or hardens it.

Boasting about badness without actively involving in badness is mere madness.

Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. It will not have its intended effect until we feel desperately the need for a Savior.