Sin Quotes - Page 56

The origin of every sin of the heart is love of this world.

I got me a car and I got me some gas,Told everybody they could kiss my ass.

It was Christ who willingly went to the cross, and it was our sins that took him there.

Let whoever is in charge keep this simple question in her head (not, how can I always do this right thing myself, but) how can I provide for this right thing to be always done?

I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea. Never as then, amid suicides, hysteria, and groups of fainting people, have I felt the sensation of real death, death without hope, death that is nothing but rottenness, for the spectacle was terrifying but devoid of greatness... I felt something like a divine urge to bombard that whole canyon of shadow, where ambulances collected suicides whose hands were full of rings.

It just seems to me that the world's kind of a mess, and the more messy it gets, the more interested I am in escapist fare. Having a good time is something that isn't about the war in Iraq or the Asian flu or the Kyoto protocol - things that are horribly depressing to consider in our real lives. I'm eager to get away from them.

The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

You better lose yourself in the music, the moment You own it, you better never let it go You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo

The messiness cannot go into the program; it piles up around the programmer.

What's called a difficult decision is a difficult decision because either way you go there are penalties.

The important thing is not being afraid to take a chance. Remember, the greatest failure is to not try. Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.

Sick people, particularly those with serious conditions, greatly prefer the company of their friends and family to residence in a hospital or nursing home.

I sincerely believe the word "relationships" is the key to the prospect of a decent world [and life]. It seems abundantly clear that every problem you will have - in your family, in your business, in our nation, or in this world - is essentially a matter of relationships, of interdependence.

Zen practice is about not getting high on anything and in so doing getting high on absolutely everything. We then find that everything we encounter - bliss or nonbliss - possesses a tremendous depth and beauty that we usually miss.

Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

The Holy Rosary is the storehouse of countless blessings.

High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.

The best thing that happens to us is when a great company gets into temporary trouble...We want to buy them when they're on the operating table.

Equal interchange of goods and service between buyer and seller is the keynote of tomorrow's business world when the vision of the modern business man awakens him to the wisdom of writing that policy into his code of ethics.

Strong leaders understand that action cures indecision

Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.

Jesus Christ is able to set us free because He has dealt with the sin that enslaves us.