What Is A Sin Quotes

If you and sin are friends, you and God are not yet reconciled.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.

As far as you can, do some manual work so as to be able to give alms, for it is written that alms and faith purify from sin.

I'll always push the envelope. To me, the ultimate sin in life is to be boring. I don't play it safe.

Cheating is a sin, but honest cunning is simply prudence. It is a virtue. To be sure, it has a likeness to roguery, but that cannot be helped. He who has not learned to practice it is a fool.

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)

Measure your growth in grace by your sensitiveness to sin.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

How about you hate your sin, and I'll hate my sin and we'll just love each other!

Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.

Wealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins.

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

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

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

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad.

The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.

...the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.

One of the worst things sin did for man was to make him selfish, for selfishness cannot love.

If you believe you will not be free from sin until you die,you have just made death your savior instead of Jesus.

It was on the cross of Calvary that God, in Christ, dealt fully and finally with self, the nature from which all our sins flow.

I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude.

All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.

There is only one sin god will not forgive Boss, and that is to deny a woman who is in wanting ~ Zorba

Sorrow for sin should be the keenest sorrow; joy in the Lord should be the loftiest joy.

Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.

Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world.

Pleasure is the bait of sin

War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.

If we don't know how to deal with sin then we don't know how to deal with people.

Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.

This last month I have felt the burden of a city. Its great sorrow has pressed in on my soul. Its vice and sin have bowed me upon my knees in tears.

The voice of sin is loud, but the voice of forgiveness is louder.

To be tempted is not to sin. The strongest attacks are made on the strongest forts.

Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

Sin makes man a coward; but a life in the Truth of Christ makes Him bold.

And the commencement of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

Sin turns ugly and is subject to defeat only when seen in the light of Christ's beauty.

How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?

A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.

Skepticism is the highest duty and blind faith the one unpardonable sin.

To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.

It is not enough that Jesus died. Someone must apply the blood of Jesus to the national sin of (the) USA.

In conclusion it may be said that sin may be defined as lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state