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"With great diligent, pursue your dreams."
"God hates sin not because he wants us to be good little boys and girls, but because he knows sin destroys that which he loves most: sinners."
"God is so omnipotent yet man so impotent, the Divine masterpiece was not even in creating the universe, but in making sin boring to sinners."
"A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness."
"Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that sin shrivels the rationality. When you sin with the heart or the emotions, that sin shrivels the emotions. When you sin with the will, that sin destroys and dissolves your willpower and your self-control. Sin is the suicidal action of the self against itself. Sin destroys freedom because sin is an enslaving power."
"The selfishness of humanity is rooted in the self-destructive nature of man through sin. Romans 6:23"
Explore more quotes by John Updike
"But for a few phrases from his letters and an odd line or two of his verse, the poet walks gagged through his own biography."
"Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper."
"Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness."
"Momentarily drained of lust, he stares at the remembered contortions to which it has driven him. His life seems a sequence of grotesque poses assumed to no purpose, a magic dance empty of belief."
"On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence."
"Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly, eventually you land on all the properties."
"We must have sinned greatly, at some juncture long buried in our protozoic past, to deserve such a universe."
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