The Sinner Quotes
The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats the Fall.
The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.
I would sooner bring one sinner to Jesus Christ than unravel all the mysteries of the divine Word, for salvation is the one thing we are to live for.
The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955)
The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant.
It is a great truth, " God reigns," and therefore grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord; and, therefore, no sinner on earth need ever despair.
Whenever anybody called Nelson Mandela a saint, he would say: "If by saint you mean a sinner who is trying to be better, then I'm a saint."
When a majority of my prayers are for others to change, I've gotten off track. Lord, change this sinner's heart.
Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.
It is not the way to convert a sinner to knock him down first and then reason with him.
Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect, is to be a disciplined sinner. Perfection, as Valery noted, is work.
Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.
The gospel has two parts. It has the part that says you're a sinner, and it has the part that says you're loved and accepted.
Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous'd, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th' offended gods.
Brethren, the just man shall scarcely be saved. What, then, will become of the sinner?
Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance.
When a sinner has any just sense of his condition, as alienated from a holy God, he will not be apt to think of the unpardonable sin.
What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in quenchless flames of hell.
If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.
If we can't "love the sinner; hate the sin" then how can we relate to ourselves? Love who we are in Christ but still hate the sin remaining.
...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.
Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.
Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal.
Never does sin so reign in the Church or State, as when it has gained reputation,or, at least, is no disgrace to the sinner,nor is a matter od offence to we who behold it.
All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else.
It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to the law And the sin is in relation to the sinner.
Because of the Cross, God can be both just towards sin and yet mercifully justifying to sinners.
You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!
