Sinner Quotes
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I only need a mirror to see a sinner.
Alistair Begg
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A saint is a sinner who loves; it's that simple!
Catherine Doherty
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We may justly condemn ourselves as the greatest sinners we know because we know more of the folly of our own heart than we do of other people's.
William Law
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Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins.
Eric Jerome Dickey
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A saint is a sinner who keeps on trying.
Dale G. Renlund
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We're all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.
Dolly Parton
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Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
Hermann Hesse
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There is a dreadful Hell, And everlasting pains; There sinners must with devils dwell In darkness, fire, and chains.
Isaac Watts
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Every sinner is now on trial once for all. He is now invited by the bleeding Saviour, urged by all the horrors of hell, to enter heaven. But death closes the possibility for ever.
Asahel Nettleton
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No one is more trustworthy than the repentant sinner who has been found out.
Ethel Smyth
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Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.
David Bowie
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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
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When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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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
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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
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The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.
Victor Hugo
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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
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Praying the sinners prayer does not heal you. It saves you
Christine Caine
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Regard yourself all the more as a sinner because you cannot feel yourself to be what you are.
Walter Hilton
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He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.
Seneca the Younger
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Only sinners need saviors.
Dan Barker
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Ministers often preach about the Gospel instead of preaching the Gospel. They often preach about sinners instead of preaching to them.
Charles Grandison Finney
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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
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There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner.
Teju Cole