Quotes About Sins Of Omission

#1. We fixate on sins of commission: Don't do this, don't do that - and you're OK. But that is holiness by subtraction. And it's more hypocrisy than holiness! It's the sins of omission - what you would have, could have, and should have done - that break the heart of your heavenly Father.

Mark Batterson

#2. Sins of omission, Louis said.
You don't believe in sins.
I believe there are failures of character, like I said before. That's a sin.

Kent Haruf

#3. Both glory and dominion last forever but glory is for God and dominion is for mankind.

Auliq Ice

#4. Without easy credit creation a true bubble cannot occur. That is why so many bubbles have their origins in the sins of omission or commission of central banks.

Niall Ferguson

#5. Even Avataras, saints, and sages have to undergo the ordeal of suffering, for they take upon themselves the burden of sins of omission and commission of ordinary human beings and thereby sacrifice themselves for the good of humanity.

Sarada Devi

#6. What time do you need to get ready for college boy?" I looked at my watch. "I probably should leave soon. Do you think it's strange that he's taking me?"
Levi shook his head. "I would find it odd if anybody didn't want to take you anywhere you wanted to go.

Elizabeth Eulberg

#7. Shed, as you do your garments, your daily sins, whether of omission or commission, and you will wake a free man, with a new life.

William Osler

#8. Sins of ignorance or infirmity are to be admonished in a different way than intentional sins of malice of intention. The assurance of forgiveness is not to be offered carelessly by those whose conscience is seared, but to penitents who come contritely to the table of the Lord.

Thomas C. Oden

#9. I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation.

Michael Ondaatje

#10. Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.

Thomas Aquinas

#11. One of the most frequent sins of omission is the failure to get adequate rest.

James MacDonald

#12. I'm leaving because I want to spend more time with my wife in Chicago.

Bill Lipinski

#13. As Christians, if sin were the reason for our afflictions, then we should all be in ICU"

~ R. Alan Woods [2012]

R. Alan Woods

#14. Not about the perversities of others, not about their sins of commission or omission, but about his own misdeeds and negligences alone should a sage be worried.

The Dharmapada

#15. The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut up.

Robert A. Heinlein

#16. I never cut my neighbor's throat;
My neighbor's gold I never stole;
I never spoiled his house and land;
But God have mercy on my soul!
For I am haunted night and day
By all the deeds I have not done;
O unattempted loveliness!
O costly valor never won!

Marguerite Wilkinson

#17. Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.

Myrtle Reed

#18. Treat everyone like a gentleman, not because they are, but because you are.

Ed Sabol

#19. For life makes no mistakes and always gives man that which man first gives himself.

Neville Goddard

#20. There are sins of omission and sins of commission, my friend. I've dealt with mine and i've forgiven myself ... you should do the same.

Will Fetters

#21. It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.

Moliere

#22. Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#23. However, we all sin by omission. Therefore, we are all sinners in constant need of a 'Savior'."

~R. Alan Woods [2010]

R. Alan Woods

#24. The New York fashion scene is crazy, madness, but I love the energy.

Kendall Jenner

#25. Waiting isn't easy, which is precisely why it is so effective when engaging with other people.

Seth Godin

#26. Sins of omission should be regarded as far more serious than sins of commission,

Stephen Bungay