Depravity Quotes

As in a tree, there is more sap in an Arm of the tree, than in a little sprig; but the sprig hath the same sap for kind that the Arm of the tree hath, and it all comes from the same root. So though there be more venom in some gross, crying sins, than in some others; yet there is no sin but hath the same sap, and the same venom, for the kind, that every sin hath, that the worst sin hath.

~ Jeremiah Burroughs

One with God is always a majority. But many have been burned at the stake while the boats were being counted. Thomas Reed

~ H.w. Brands

He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

We owe God a double debt incurred by our passive receipt of Adam's debt but also by our active disobedience. The extent of our depravity is such that we also owe a daring debt because we challenge not only God's Law but His very grace as we blame Him that He has not done enough.

~ Foppe Vander Zwaag

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.

~ Andrew Murray

If I created a new depravity I would be a priestess, while my imitators would founder, after my reign, in abominable filth...Don't you think that proud men, copying Satan, are more guilty than the Satan of the Bible, who invented pride? Is Satan not respectable because of his unprecedented and divinely inspired sin?

~ Rachilde

One is not necessarily made self-centered because he is foolish, but one is very often made foolish because he is self-centered.

~ Criss Jami

Humanizing war?! You may as well talk of humanizing Hell. Sir John Fisher

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

He trusted the cosmos – but not necessarily the powers that held sway on earth.

~ Philip Zaleski

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?

~ Donald Grey Barnhouse

Her heart was revealed in a slip, as our hearts always are.

~ Rosaria Champagne Butterfield

Our view of human problems determines who is qualified to speak to them. If sin is the primary human problem, then those with the theological and practical expertise in dealing with sin – in its varied and complex forms – should lead the way in the field of people-helping. Unless we have an accurate and robust conception of sin, the church will concede much of its work to outside professional and will be ill-equipped to cooperate with them when needed.

~ James Macdonald

It is not, in Calvin’s view, that we sin because we believe the wrong things; it is, rather, that we believe the wrong things because we sin.

~ Russell D. Moore

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.

~ Dennis Garvin

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

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Sin has sprung from a royal though evil stock, and if it be in the heart, it will struggle for the throne.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

~ Arthur C. Clarke

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.

~ Richard Rohr

It is well for us when prayers about our sorrows are linked with pleas concerning our sins—when, being under God's hand, we are not wholly taken up with our pain, but remember our offences against God.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Self-deprecation is the appropriate response of any new convert, as he matches his stained soul against the purity of God.

~ Philip Zaleski

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.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When man comes into the presence of God he will find, whether he wishes it or not, that all those things which seemed to make him so different from the men of other times, or even from his earlier self, have fallen off. He is back where he always was, where every man always is.

~ C.s. Lewis

If I turn mine eyes upon myself, I find myself a traitor with the rest

~ ;William Shakespeare

No one can become and remain a theologian unless he is compelled again and again to be astonished at himself.

~ Karl Barth

To Tom, the march of technology was equivalent to the march of civilization.

~ Stephen L. Carter

Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again distinguishes between good and evil. . . Hysterical optimism as a sin against knowledge.

~ Richard M. Weaver

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

~ Timothy J. Keller

Our misconception in viewing the past lies in assuming that doubt and fear, permit, protests, violence and hate were not equally present.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

Kindness and pain, joy and suffering are twins in this fallen world.

~ Philip Zaleski

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.

~ Mary E. Demuth

Poetry of World War I, at least in its lyrical mode, was itself the last flowering of the Age of Innocence that preceded the war, that the horrors of the trenches sparked the final blossoming, as friction gives rise to fire; that the daily nightmare unfolding before the soldiers sharpened their sense of beauty, prophecy, and mission.

~ Philip Zaleski

I get it. I haven't seen much of the real world yet. But let's say I do get out there... and it turns out that it's not even worth seeing? Or even worse.. what if it's so ugly and cruel that I can barely stand to look? What if I only meet idiots and the depraved? What's that going to teach me? What can I learn from that?

~ Naoyuki Ochiai

It is too easy to call the church political. The nature of fallen people is political. And they happen to make up the church. So the church is innately political. This cannot be helped. But it can be navigated if not always stomached.

~ Mea Mcmahon

Jesus takes the chaos of the world upon Himself.

~ Mark Sayers

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.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

When we get to Heaven, we can try a monarchy, perhaps. John Hay

~ John Taliaferro

I swung my hips around like I unscrewed at the waist.

~ Amber Dawn

The love of humanity does not prevent us from being good journalists.

~ Barbara W. Tuchman

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

~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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.

~ John Piper