{"quotes":[{"text":"When the serpent breathed the poison of his pride, the desire to be as God, into the hearts of our first parents, that they too fell from their high estate into all the wretchedness in which man is now sunk. In heaven and earth, pride, self-exaltation, is the gate and the birth, and the curse, ofhell.","author":"Andrew Murray","tags":["humility","original-sin","pride"],"id":417,"author_id":"Andrew+Murray"},{"text":"We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it.","author":"Chögyam Trungpa","tags":["acceptance","background","confidence","cultivation","development","enlightenment","heritage","humanity","humans","life","mankind","original-sin","origins","pride","progress","sentient-beings","shame","truth"],"id":14770,"author_id":"Ch%C3%B6gyam+Trungpa"},{"text":"If everything that is happening in the world is traceable to our inability to understand what is happening in the world.  If there is such a thing as original sin, it's the human capacity to get everything wrong, right from the beginning and all the way up to now, and that's what the old storytellers have been telling us, including the Creek Indians who told this story along with every other tribe on earth.","author":"Gerald Hausman","tags":["mistakes","original-sin","storytellers"],"id":19433,"author_id":"Gerald+Hausman"},{"text":"Original sin is a very commercial idea,” said Duyckinck. “How do you think the Bible stays in print year after year?","author":"Mark Beauregard","tags":["bible","original-sin"],"id":27923,"author_id":"Mark+Beauregard"},{"text":"No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification by faith, in more strong, more clear and express terms, than Arminius has done.","author":"John Wesley","tags":["arminianism","arminius","calvin","calvinism","christianity","doctrine","justification-by-faith","original-sin","salvation","theology"],"id":35618,"author_id":"John+Wesley"},{"text":"Before eating from the tree of knowledge, Adam and Eve had no notion of Good and evil.They were kicked out of paradise, because the supposed Creator was unable to reason that giving someone free will to choose between two things while having no notion of either, would be the Himalaya of nonsense.","author":"Haroutioun Bochnakian","tags":["adam-and-eve","anachronism","free-will","good-and-bad","good-and-evil","monotheism","nonsense","original-sin","religion"],"id":107920,"author_id":"Haroutioun+Bochnakian"},{"text":"If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.","author":"Robert Penn Warren","tags":["forgiveness","history","original-sin"],"id":128220,"author_id":"Robert+Penn+Warren"},{"text":"Satan’s inquisitiveness would eventually be inherited by the offspring of Adam and Eve. The inquisitiveness was the original sin.","author":"Tomichan Matheikal","tags":["original-sin","sin"],"id":159729,"author_id":"Tomichan+Matheikal"},{"text":"The true nature of man left to himself without restraint is not nobility but savagery.","author":"Steven James","tags":["man","nature","nature-of-man","original-sin"],"id":187726,"author_id":"Steven+James"},{"text":"Original sin and conscious awareness of human fallibility is the perpetual agent of transformation in human affairs. Humankind’s behavior is pathological; it is an admixture of instinct and reason, kindness and cruelty, immorality and seeking redemption.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["behavior","change","conscious-awareness","consciousness","consciousness","cruelty","free-will","freedom","human-error","human-nature","human-nature","humankind","instinct","kindness","original-sin","quotes","reason","redeem","redemption","regret","regret","regretful","regrets","self-awareness","self-transformation","sin","transformation","transformation"],"id":189875,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":26,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}