Unpardonable Sin

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

    “The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.”
    —Emma Goldman (1869–1940)

    “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)

    “This I know; God cannot sin, because his doing a thing makes it just, and consequently, no sin.... And therefore it is blasphemy to say, God can sin; but to say, that God can so order the world, as a sin may be necessarily caused thereby in a man, I do not see how it is any dishonor to him.”
    —Thomas Hobbes (1579–1688)