Sin Quotes
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When nations are to perish in their sins, 'tis in the Church the leprosy begins.
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My friends, nothing in all the world is so much worth thinking of as God, Christ, the Bible, sin and salvation, the divine purposes for humankind, life everlasting. But you cannot challenge the dedicated thinking of this generation to these sublime themes upon any such terms as are laid down by an intolerant church.
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Be very sure of this,-people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it only too well; they understand that it condemns their own behavior; they understand that it witnesses against their own sins, and summons them to judgment.
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Christians are not perfect, and all of us do sin along the way. But genuine Christians hear His voice and follow Him.
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The saint, we are told, once lived a life of sin - nothing spectacular, of course, just the usual things.
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Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help.
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Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.
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There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin.
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To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.
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The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent.
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Every sin already carries grace within in, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people - eternal life. The Buddha exists in the robber and dice player; the robber exists in the Brahmin.
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I don't hate homosexuals. I love homosexuals. It's the sin of homosexuality I hate.
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Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profit others and ourselves
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He Christ died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.
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If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
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Sanctification is the real change in man from the sordidness of sin to the purity of God's image.
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Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state.
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Because He freely owned my guilt I may freely own my sin. Guilty as charged, and yet, not guilty at all.
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You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?
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The story of the fall tells us that sin corrupts: it puts asunder what God had joined together and joins together what God had put asunder. Like some devastating twister, corruption both explodes and implodes creation, pushing it back toward the “formless void” from which it came.
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Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight
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Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.
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A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.
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Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen.
