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So if a man live in any way of lasciviousness, the more his impure lust prevails, the more sweet and pleasant will it make the sin appear, and so the more will he be disposed and prejudiced to think there is no evil in it.
- Jonathan Edwards
So if a man live in any way of lasciviousness, the more his impure lust prevails, the more sweet and pleasant will it make the sin appear, and so the more will he be disposed and prejudiced to think there is no evil in it.
- Jonathan Edwards
You must be willing for ever to leave all the ease, and pleasure, and profit of sin, to forsake all for salvation, as Lot forsook all, and left all he had, to escape out of Sodom.
- Jonathan Edwards
Heroism and ignominy both are part of our history. The only question is whether, having seen both, we can repent of the one and rejoice and be inspired by the other. Or whether we will let one of them tempt us so far away from the other that we have a deeply distorted view.
- Eric Metaxas
All right," he wrote, "if [the devil] devours me he shall devour a laxative (God willing) which will make his bowels and anus too tight for him. Do you want to bet? One has to suffer if he wants to possess Christ."
- Eric Metaxas
No sooner is a playhouse opened in any part of the Kingdom than it at once becomes surrounded by a halo of brothels.
- Eric Metaxas
My reaction to porn films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first 20 minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
- Erica Jong
My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. After the first twenty minutes, I never want to screw again as long as I live.
- Erica Jong
Have a old old testament quote that says that man shall not live by bread alone
- Benjamin Disraeli
I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.
- Graham Greene
No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.
- George Eliot
It was like having a box of chocolates shut in the bedroom drawer. Until the box was empty it occupied the mind too much.
- Graham Greene