Sin Quotes

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin.

True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.

The only way we can leave the pain or sin from our past is to face it with Christ. For the past cannot be forgotten, it can only be forgiven and redeemed.

If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.

Free-will cannot will good and of necessity serves sin.

Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.

Where we might think of sin as slip-ups or missteps, God views sin as a godless attitude that leads to godless action.

It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.

Order my footsteps by Thy Word and make my heart sincere; let sin have no dominion, Lord, but keep my conscience clear.

This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.

If God and his grace do not rule us, sin and Satan will have possession of us.

I closed my eyes and let the music flow through me, cleansing my soul of all fear and sin and reminding me that I am always better than I think and stronger than I believe.

The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins.

All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity, on the ground that, by this utterance, they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.

Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all.

In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.

The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.

We are not guilty because we are depraved; we are depraved because we are guilty

I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.

Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin.

Prayer is an exchange. We leave our burdens, worries and sin in the hands of God. We come away with oil of joy and the garment of praise.

There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.

When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.

Sin is a spiritual illness; thus sinners are in need of salvation.

Let every man mind his own business.

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation

Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world

Those sins that seem most sweet in life, will prove most bitter in death

It is a sin to be poor.

If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God.

Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.

To confess your sins to God is not to tell [God] anything [God] doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you. When you confess them, they become the bridge.

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

It may be a secret sin on earth, but it is open scandal in heaven.

If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts.

Success is the only unforgivable sin against your neighbor.

The spirituality of wonder knows the world is charged with grace, that while sin and war, disease and death are terribly real, God's loving presence and power in our midst are even more real.

You will not become a saint through other people's sins.

Sin had no sooner come into the world than God came in grace seeking the sinner, and so from the first question, 'Adam, where art thou?' on to the incarnation, God has been speaking to man.

Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

God is not counting our sins against us because He is counting our sins against Christ.

Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

'Tis no sin to cheat the devil.