“The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.”
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Martin Luther King, Jr.658
American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Ci… 1929–1968Related quotes
“Thus I saw how Christ hath compassion on us for the cause of sin.”
Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress
The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 28
Anaïs Nin book A Spy in the House of Love
Variant: We are more severe judges of our own acts... We judge our thoughts, our intents, our secret curses, our secret hates, not only our acts.
Source: A Spy in the House of Love
Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
Source: Voyage of the Beagle
“His acting in us is nearer and more inward than our own actions”
John Ruysbroeck (1293–1381) Flemish mystic
John of Ruysbroeck Spiritual Espousals, complete works, Mechelen 1934, vol. 1, p. 148. English version New York 1953.
Context: God is more interior to us than we are to ourselves.
His acting in us is nearer and more inward than our own actions.
God works in us from inside outwards;
creatures work on us from the outside.
“Our sins describe us, and our prohibitions describe our sins.”
Russell Banks (1940) American author
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Jerry Bridges (1929–2016) American writer
Source: The Pursuit of Holiness
