What Is A Sin Quotes

Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God.

It may be doubted whether any repentance is genuine which is not repentance for sin rather than sins

Oh the saddest of sights in a world of sin Is the little lost pup with his tail tucked in.

He who wishes to put on the yellow dress without having cleansed himself from sin, who disregards temperance and truth, is unworthy of the yellow dress.

We are so inculcated with guilt that we think that weakness is a sin or that it is some crime against nature to be submissive.

Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!"

Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death.

The word of Sin is Restriction

Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.

I like smooth shiny girls, hardboiled and loaded with sin.

Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

Nothing is needed so much as a holy indignation against sin. It is true that there is not enough love for God, and one sign of it is that there is not enough hatred for sin.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Sin is the insurrection and rebellion of the heart against God; it turns from Him, and turns against Him; it takes up arms against God.

In those happy days when leisure was held to be no sin, men and women wrote journals whose copiousness both delights and dismays us.

Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin for His righteousness.

Get alone with Jesus and either tell Him that you do not want sin to die out in you - or else tell Him that at all costs you want to be identified with His death.

The one unforgivable sin is to be boring.

Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.

The way to cover our sin is to uncover it by confession.

There is only one evil, one crime, one sin: lack of heart.

The real attitude of sin in the heart towards God is that of being without God; it is pride, the worship of myself, that is the great atheistic fact in human life.

If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.

I am a man more sinned against than sinning

Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.

Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it.

By His Resurrection, Christ conquered sin and death, destroyed Satan's dark kingdom, freed the enslaved human race and broke the seal on the greatest mysteries of God and man.

History offers some consolation by reminding us that sin has flourished in every age.

To deny that in a child after baptism sin remains is to treat with contempt both Paul and Christ.

The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns.

Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad as he can be, but he has no holiness, that is, no supreme love of God

There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit.

Never venture near the door where sin dwells, lest you are dragged in.

It is the wit and policy of sin to hate those we have abused.

Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God.

Twere sin to stain fair Venus' courts with blood

Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.

The only reason Christ submitted himself to the horrendous experience of bearing the sins of the entire world is because his death provided the only way for reconciliation with God.

Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.

Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary

Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

For I realize today that it is a mortal sin to violate the great laws of nature. We should not hurry, we should not be impatient, but we should confidently obey the eternal rhythm.

Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.

The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.

Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened - Man's forgiveness give and take!