Necessary Sins Quotes

“Love is never a sin.’ What a beautiful sentiment.”
― Elizabeth Bell, Necessary Sins

“Why did God place the Tree of Knowledge in Paradise? Didn’t He know Adam would eat the forbidden fruit?”
― Elizabeth Bell, Necessary Sins

“One day, Joseph, all the false trappings will fall away, and only the perfection of God will remain. If we are wise, if we listen to Him alone, we can glimpse that perfection here on Earth.”
― Elizabeth Bell, Necessary Sins

“An ass could not help being an ass, but it was still an ass.”
― Elizabeth Bell, Necessary Sins

“Absence is to love as wind is to fire…”
― Elizabeth Bell, Necessary Sins

“Mix rain and earth together, and they become LIFE and BEAUTY.”
― Elizabeth Bell, Necessary Sins

“Sin is necessary, but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.”
― Elizabeth Bell, Necessary Sins

“God allows evils to happen in order to bring a greater good therefrom.”
― Elizabeth Bell, Necessary Sins

“Christ would never have died for us; and if Christ had never died for us, we would never have understood the depth of God’s grace and His love.”
― Elizabeth Bell, Necessary Sins

“Of course God knew. But if mankind had never fallen,”
― Elizabeth Bell, Necessary Sins

“Saint Paul talks about in his First Epistle to the Corinthians, how we are nothing without love—the Church has forgotten that.”
― Elizabeth Bell, Necessary Sins

“He that loveth not, knoweth not God: for God is love.”
― Elizabeth Bell, Necessary Sins

“Saint Alphonsus rang through Joseph’s mind: “In a word, the Church regards as a monster the priest that does not lead a life of chastity.”
― Elizabeth Bell, Necessary Sins

“My child asked me for bread. I was not about to give her a stone.”
― Elizabeth Bell, Necessary Sins

“This is why you must never love a created thing more than the Creator. Only God is deathless. Only He will never fail you.”
― Elizabeth Bell, Necessary Sins

“God with thy whole heart, thy whole soul, and thy whole mind…”
― Elizabeth Bell, Necessary Sins

“As God had promised Eve in punishment for her sin: “I will multiply thy sorrows: in pain shalt thou bring forth children.”
― Elizabeth Bell, Necessary Sins

“living proof that through the grace of God, anything is possible.”
― Elizabeth Bell, Necessary Sins

“But though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies. — Lamentations 3:32”
― Elizabeth Bell, Necessary Sins

“We have a proverb in Ireland,” she told Joseph and his sister. “‘Three who will never see the light of Heaven: the Angel of Pride, an unbaptized child, and a Priest’s concubine.”
― Elizabeth Bell, Necessary Sins

“Tree of Knowledge.” He lowered the pomegranate into its new home. “Apples don’t grow very well in Mesopotamia, where the Garden of Eden must have been.”
― Elizabeth Bell, Necessary Sins

“When you see one, you’ll understand—pomegranates are even more appealing than apples.”
― Elizabeth Bell, Necessary Sins

“gardener, so I thought her appropriate”
― Elizabeth Bell, Necessary Sins

“Saint Rose of Lima. She was the first American saint and”
― Elizabeth Bell, Necessary Sins

“Christ’s Passion: the scourge, the Crown of Thorns, the nails.”
― Elizabeth Bell, Necessary Sins

“Jesuit missionaries thought parts of the plant resembled the Instruments of”
― Elizabeth Bell, Necessary Sins

“Passion-flowers earned their name?”
― Elizabeth Bell, Necessary Sins

“The best teacher is a good book,”
― Elizabeth Bell, Necessary Sins

“Life without books is death.”
― Elizabeth Bell, Necessary Sins

“Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple’s sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.”
― Elizabeth Bell, Necessary Sins