Unpardonable Sin

Famous quotes containing the words unpardonable sin, unpardonable and/or sin:

    “The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)

    “No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.”
    —Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “Rock of ages, cleft for me,
    Let me hide myself in thee!
    Let the water and the blood,
    From thy riven side which flowed,
    Be of sin the double cure;
    Cleanse me from its guilt and pow’r.”
    —Augustus Montague Toplady (1740–1778)