Sinner Quotes
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A saint is a sinner who keeps on trying.
Dale G. Renlund -
Sin we have explain'd away; Unluckily, the sinners stay.
William Allingham
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The forgiveness of God is gratuitous liberation from guilt. Paradoxically, the conviction of personal sinfulness becomes the occasion of encounter with the merciful love of the redeeming God. "There will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repenting..." (Luke 15:7). In his brokenness, the repentant prodigal knew an intimacy with his father that his sinless, self-righteous brother would never know.
Brennan Manning -
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
Hermann Hesse -
To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.
Malachy McCourt -
When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.
Bernard of Clairvaux -
I only need a mirror to see a sinner.
Alistair Begg -
The popular gospel of this day, is the laughing-stock of Hell; it dare neither damn the sinner, nor sanctify the saint.
Catherine Booth
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... You are the closest I will ever come to heaven, either here on Earth or in the afterlife, and I will not regret it, not even at the cost of your tears. So I go to my grave an unrepentant sinner, I’m afraid. There is no use in mourning one such as I, dearest... -Simon to Lucy in a letter before the last duel.
Elizabeth Hoyt -
How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln.
Paul Newman -
Regard yourself all the more as a sinner because you cannot feel yourself to be what you are.
Walter Hilton -
There is a dreadful Hell, And everlasting pains; There sinners must with devils dwell In darkness, fire, and chains.
Isaac Watts -
As a general rule, people who flagrantly pretend to anything are the reverse of that which they pretend to. A man who sets up for a saint is sure to be a sinner; and a man who boasts that he is a sinner is sure to have some feeble, maudlin, snivelling bit of saintship about him which is enough to make him a humbug.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins.
Eric Jerome Dickey
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We're all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.
Dolly Parton -
The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.
Victor Hugo -
When you heart is ablaze with the love of God, when you love other people - especially the ripsnorting sinners - so much that you dare to tell them about Jesus with no apologies, then never fear, there will be results.
Catherine Marshall -
Only sinners need saviors.
Dan Barker -
There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner.
Teju Cole -
Praying the sinners prayer does not heal you. It saves you
Christine Caine
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Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.
David Bowie -
The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. 'They won't let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.' 'What are you complaining about?' said God. 'They won't let Me in either.
Brennan Manning -
Ministers often preach about the Gospel instead of preaching the Gospel. They often preach about sinners instead of preaching to them.
Charles Grandison Finney -
He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.
Seneca the Younger