Depravity Quotes
A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes - and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent
The unavoidable harshness of life surprised none of them, for they were Christians one and all, believing that they inhabited a fallen world, albeit one filled with God's grace.
Even the respectable have a small anarchist hidden on the inside.
Every artifact of human culture is a positive response to God's general revelation and simultaneously a rebellious assertion against His sovereign rule over us.
Sin is the native language in every ZIP code.
Violent crimes had increased from 120 per 100, 000 in 1962 180 per 100, 000 by 1964.
Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government?
A poem, novel, or play acquires all of humanity's disorders, including the fear of mortality
Malignant phenomena do not come out of a golden age.
Before we come to Christ, we must come to ourselves.
Cheer up! You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope.
So then, let "Deserved" be written on the door of hell, but on the door of Heaven and life, "The free gift" (68).
God's revelation in the Gospel not only reveals Who He is, but it also reveals who we are.
What weighs us down is not gravity! A little force of kindness can decelerate depravity.
The Russian people were just like us. They were victims of their own government. Ronald Reagan
The men who are dropped in a jungle or a desert and expected video games and got mundanity and depravity and friends dying like animals.
Maybe the real miracle in any miracle is our ability to believe that despite our own depravity, in the eyes of God we are worthy of a miracle.
I wonder if there is anyone who is not depraved. A wearisome thought.I want money. Unless I have it....In my sleep, a natural death!
Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity.
...reclusiveness itself may be a kind of violence. It leaves an abyss for us to throw our fantasies into.
The shape of evil is much more superficiality and blindness than the usual list of hot sins. God hides, and is found, precisely in the depths of everything.
When we get to Heaven, we can try a monarchy, perhaps." John Hay
If beauty is relative, then any and everything when compared to the beauty of God is absolutely hideous.
Jesus takes the chaos of the world upon Himself.
It’s an act of our will to choose to see people simply as wildly loved by God, to assume their beauty before guessing their depravity.
Kindness and pain, joy and suffering are twins in this fallen world.
Our misconception in viewing the past lies in assuming that doubt and fear, permit, protests, violence and hate were not equally present.
To Tom, the march of technology was equivalent to the march of civilization.
No one can become and remain a theologian unless he is compelled again and again to be astonished at himself.
Alas! it is but little we have done for our Master's glory. Our winter has lasted all too long. We are as cold as ice when we should feel a summer's glow and bloom with sacred flowers.
I am praying that the issues from the last 12 generations go into the ground with me so I have NEW issue is to pass on to my son.
Self-deprecation is the appropriate response of any new convert, as he matches his stained soul against the purity of God.
The love of humanity does not prevent us from being good journalists.
Sin has sprung from a royal though evil stock, and if it be in the heart, it will struggle for the throne.
The last Bible I looked at contained over 2000 pages, and you humans managed to get yourself kicked out Paradise by page 5. That has to be some kind of record.
Her heart was revealed in a slip, as our hearts always are.
On what grounds would God be told that He can bring death to millions of people at the end of a normal life span, but that He may not do it in any other way?
He trusted the cosmos – but not necessarily the powers that held sway on earth.
Humanizing war?! You may as well talk of humanizing Hell. Sir John Fisher
One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.
Our insight into the need of redemption will largely depend upon our knowledge of the terrible nature of the power that has entered our being.
One with God is always a majority. But many have been burned at the stake while the boats were being counted. Thomas Reed