Sin Quotes
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There was a time when ministers spoke forthrightly and named things. We don't name anything anymore. Finney had a sermon on How to Preach so as to Convert Nobody. He said 'Preach on sin but never mention any of the sins of your congregation - that will do it.'
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I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.
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Well-lit streets discourage sin, but don't overdo it.
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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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To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.
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Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.
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Any analysis of 'sin' or 'evil' or 'demonic influence' or 'negative thinking' or 'systemic evil' or 'antisocial behavior' that fails to see the lack of self-dignity as the core of the problem will prove to be too shallow.
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Part of the sin of Pride is a subtle but deep racism.
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It is the principle of sin, rebellion against God and His truth which has brought about birth defects and other destructive natural occurrences.
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I believe that, that Christ became sin for us.
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A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.
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In order for good to blossom it must be cultivated and exercised by constant practice, and to be truly righteous there is required a daily pruning of the evil growth of our characters by a daily repen- tance from sin.
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Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest.
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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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Sins slowly suffocate the heart, and abandoning sins brings life to the heart.
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There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstand, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous, and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own.
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It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.
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Sin defies God, utterly corrupts each individual, corrodes all social relationships, and issues in death.
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Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.
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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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One sin, I know, another doth provoke. Murder's as near to lust as flame to smoke.
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Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities.
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We are most unfair to God; we do not allow Him to sin.
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The only sin is stupidity.
