What Is A Sin Quotes

Whatever the natural cause, sin is the true cause of all earthquakes.

Real repentance means coming not only to be sorry for the consequences of sin but to hate sin itself.

Pride is more than the first of the seven deadly sins; it is itself the essence of all sin.

Now is the hour we should humbly prostrate ourselves before God, willing to be convicted afresh of our sins by the Holy Spirit.

The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin.

Christ by his death destroying the works of the devil, procuring the Spirit for us, hath so killed sin, as to its reign in believers, that it shall not obtain its end and dominion.

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

The mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the works or deeds of the flesh is the constant duty of believers.

The Truth An Offense But Not A Sin

Mistakes are good, successes are great, and idleness is a sin.

He that hath slight thoughts of sin, never had great thoughts of God.

Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were in jest.

There is no evil that the father’s love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.

Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.

A tender heart is a wakeful, watchful heart. It watches against sin in the soul, sin in the family, sin in the calling, sin in spiritual duties and performances.

The worst kind of sin is not to acknowledge that you are sinful.

The problem is always sin, and the answer is always the Gospel.

The line between playing to win and sin is thin, But I walk it with grace and I talk it with taste. I am that raw, simply put, and I rest my case.

There is the seed of all sins--of the vilest and worst of sins--in the best of men.

Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.

He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

If He had not known with certainty that He would be Master over sin and that out of evil would evolve the noblest display of His own glory, He would not have permitted it to enter the world.

There is no sin greater than ignorance.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes. Man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone.

The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's sorrow over sin, but for God's wrath on sin.

You cannot play the hypocrite before God; and to obtain pardon you must cease to sin, as well as to be exercised by a spirit of repentance.

Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.

It is not a sin to introduce a personal bias that can be recognized and discounted. The sin in historical composition is the organization of the story in such a way that bias cannot be recognized.

War is a sin. War is the highest degree of immorality. War is inhuman insanity for it kills sacred human lives wholesale. How can there still be any war on our miraculous planet?

A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Spirit. Only those thoughts that come by walking have any value.

The only separation the Bible knows is between believers on the one hand and unbelievers on the other. Any other kind of separation, division, disunity is of the devil. It is evil and from sin.

Repentance is the sweet fruit that comes from faith in the Savior and involves turning toward God and away from sin.

Behold not with anger the sins of man, but forgive and cleanse.

One is punished by the very things by which he sins.

I know that we sin but I do believe we try, we all try.

The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.

A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.

When my conscience under the Holy Spirit makes me aware of a specific sin I should at once call that sin sin and bring it consciously under the blood of Christ.

You said they had found the secret of happiness because they had never heard that love can be a sin.

It is good to divert our sorrow for other things to the root of all, which is sin. Let our grief run most in that channel, that as sin bred grief, so grief may consume sin.

When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes.

Never rise from the table without having given due thanks to the Lord. If we act in this way, we need have no fear of the wretched sin of gluttony.

Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted.

Recalling and confessing our sin is like taking out the garbage: once is not enough.

We will do anything short of sin to reach people for Christ.

There may be some sins of which a man cannot speak, but there is no sin which the blood of Christ cannot wash away.

Curiosity is not a sin.... But we should exercise caution with our curiosity... yes, indeed.

Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.

Because He freely owned my guilt I may freely own my sin. Guilty as charged, and yet, not guilty at all.