What Is A Sin Quotes

You can't compartmentalize unforgiveness. You can't control sin. You can't manage sin. Sin is never satisfied with the amount of you it possesses.

For as long as love takes up the whole heart, what room is there for sin therein?

Bitterness about your parents’ brokenness will kill you. Be the grace-filled end of generational sin in your family.

No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that there should be none to call him to account.

Sin is not just breaking God's laws; it is breaking His heart.

We abide in God insofar as we do not sin.

I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.

Strive always to confess your sins with a deep knowledge of your own wretchedness and with clarity and purity.

Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse.

I am discontented because I have not these things which God never yet promised me, and therefore I sin much against the Gospel, and against the grace of faith.

You can drift into sin, but not into righteousness.

Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.

Taking away the peace of a people, committing every act of violence, or consenting to such acts, especially when directed against the weakest and defenseless, is a profoundly grave sin against God.

Grace has uprooted us from a barren wilderness of sin and transplanted us by streams of living water.

The moment a man falls into sin, divine life ceases to flow, and his life becomes one of helplessness.

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.

Any time, day or night, at home or in the street, wherever we are, we live bathed in God. If we always kept this in mind, it would be impossible to sin.

God's eternal decree certainly rendered the entrance of sin into the world certain, but this may not be interpreted so as to make God the cause of sin in the sense of being its responsible author

The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin, That lays eggs under your skin.

His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.

Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth.

Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

You can't have virtue without sin. What I'm after is having my characters' virtues defined by how they operate in a very sinful environment. That's how you test people.

Terrorism is one of the cardinal sins that the Koran threatens with hellfire.

If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.

It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.

People only tell lies when the truth is disagreeable to them, or frightens them, or to cover sin.

There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.

Sin is wrong, not because of what it does to me, or my spouse, or child, or neighbor, but because it is an act of rebellion against the infinitely holy and majestic God.

Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.

There is no sin worse in life than being boring and nothing worse than letting other people tell you what to do.

There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility.

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin?

I wish, in America, (that) we were as concerned about separation from church and sin as we are about separation between church and state. Church and sin-- it's a monstrous problem.

The only thing He forgets is our sins.

Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.

If we knew exactly what animal life was like before the fall into sin and knew what nature was like before the law of entropy invaded it, we would already be living in heaven.

Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.

I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a lesson of reconciliation. When you see ill people or invalids around, you realize that it is a sin to complain!

God is more ready to pardon that we have been to sin.

Testimonies are wonderful. But, so often our lives don't fit our testimonies.

Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.

To listen only to records is a sin of narcissism. It is important to hear live music, in concert, which is a source of emotions that a record can never convey.

Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives is not just a nice thing to do - it is the moral will of God. Failure to give Him the thanks due Him is sin.

What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.

The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

The holocaust against the unborn is the greatest sin they could ever do or even ever participate in.