Famous Quotes & Sayings

C. S. Lewis

The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.

C. S. Lewis

Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers into membrane, but because most men like birds better than bats.

Agnes Macphail

I do not want to be the angel of any home: I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality. After that is secured, then men and women can take turns being angels.

Charles Dickens

The shadows of our own desires stand between us and our better angels, and thus their brightness is eclipsed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man.

Charles Caleb Colton

Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.

Charles Dickens

There's a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a Angel. That young man hears the words I speak. That young man has a secret way pecooliar to himself, of getting at a boy, and at his heart, and at his liver.

Charles Spurgeon

The angels did not merely sin and lose heaven, but they passed beyond all other beings in sin and made themselves fit denizens for hell.

Charles Spurgeon

When home is ruled according to God's Word, angels might be asked to stay a night with us, and they would not find themselves out of their element.

Anselm of Canterbury

God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth.

Publilius Syrus

Hasty conclusions lead to speedy repentance.

Publilius Syrus

Repentance follows hasty counsels.

J. C. Ryle

Let us beware of repentance without evidence.

J. I. Packer

Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.

Martin Luther

To do so no more is the truest repentance.

Andrew Fanara

We want to raise the temperature on this, pardon the pun.

William Shakespeare

Pardon's the word to all.

Cindy Sheehan

We can't let somebody rise to the top who will pardon these war criminals. Because they need to go to prison for what they've done in this world. We can't have a pardon. They need to pay for what they've done.

Augusto Pinochet

I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.

Publilius Syrus

Pardon others often, thyself never.

George Herbert

Pardon all but thy selfe. [Pardon all but thyself.]

Friedrich Nietzsche

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

George Carlin

Pardon me I've got nothing to say.

Tony Allen

If he doesn't have anything to hide, why did he pardon them now before the trial?