Quote About Temptation and Sin by Edwin Louis Cole
“Temptation can be tormenting, but remember: The torment of temptation to sin is nothing to compare with the torment of the consequences of sin. Remorse and regret cannot compensate for sin….though sins can be forgiven immediately – the consequences can last a lifetime”
Edwin Louis Cole
Honoring God and Making Good Decisions – Edwin Louis Cole
“A man who honors God privately will show it by making good decisions publicly.”
Edwin Louis Cole
Quote on Purpose and Calling by Neale Donald Walsch
“Once you are ready to truly devote your days and times to what your soul came here to do, you will find your life unimaginably enriched.”
Neale Donald Walsch
Understanding a Person – Quote by Erich Fromm
“Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him.”
Erich Fromm
“Communism is exploitation …” – Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
“Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.”
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
“You cannot compensate by sacrifice …” – Quote by Edwin Louis Cole
“You cannot compensate by sacrifice what you lose through disobedience”
Edwin Louis Cole
Erich Fromm on Existence and Experiencing God
“We try to evade the question of existence with property, prestige, power, possession, production, fun, and, ultimately, by trying to forget that we- that I- exist. No matter how much he thinks of God or goes to church, or how much he believes in religious ideas , if he, the whole man, is deaf to the question of existence, if he does not have an answer to it, he is marking time, and he lives and dies like one of the million things he produces. He thinks of God, instead of experiencing God.”
Erich Fromm
“The End Does Not Justify the Means” – Quote by Ayn Rand
“The end does not justify the means. No one’s rights can be secured by the violation of the rights of others.”
Ayn Rand
Erich Fromm on Love, Narcissism, and Objectivity
“The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one’s narcissism. The narcissistic orientation is one in which one experiences as real only that which exists within oneself, while the phenomena in the outside world have no reality in themselves, but are experienced only from the viewpoint of their being useful or dangerous to one. The opposite pole to narcissism is objectivity; it is the faculty to see other people and things as they are, objectively, and to be able to separate this objective picture from a picture which is formed by one’s desires and fears.”
Erich Fromm
“No one ever told me …” – Quote by C. S. Lewis
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
C. S. Lewis