What Is A Sin Quotes

Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

Confession of sin shows us more clearly our need of mercy-and endears God's mercy more to us

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

Have you been tormented with fears and doubts? Bombarded with temptation to sin? Try praising the Lord, and watch Satan flee.

Sin in the theater, I can observe now, is comparable to education in a university: it is there for those who wish to take advantage of it, but fewer do than you might suspect.

Sin is like a journey, it begins with one step.

The Devil knows your name but calls you by your sin. God knows your sin but calls you by your name.

Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief i feel, For words like nature,half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.

Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you can commit.

The economy needs a stimulus. We MUST borrow. The notion of debt as a sin or something evil should be reviewed.

Ten commandments yet seven deadly sins: conflict?

Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.

The fact is that sin is the most unmanly thing in God's world. You never were made for sin and selfishness. You were made for love and obedience.

To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall?

Theory of the true civilization. It is not to be found in gas or steam or table turning. It consists in the diminution of the traces of original sin.

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

Sin may be clasped so close, we cannot see its face.

In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboreth to good purpose.

While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our slavery to self, that we could become truly free.

Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing in it. Not to overcome sin is what ought to astonish us.

The essence of sin is arrogance; the essence of salvation is submission.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

The essence of sin is a shift from God centeredness to a self-centeredness. The essence of salvation is a denial of self, not an affirming of self.

The greatest sin is sinning against love.

Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification.

When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured.

It is by avoiding future sin that we retain a remission of the sins of the past.

She had eyes like strange sins.

It [covetousness] is a sin against God, just as all mortal sins, in as much as man condemns things eternal for the sake of temporal things.

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.

Grace doesn't lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance.

It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much sin, yet I was never out of an assurance of mine interest, nor long out of sight of His presence.

No one can out-sin the cross of Christ.

I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences.

To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead (as all unbelievers, the best of them, are dead), sin is alive, and will live.

It is no sin to look at a nice girl.

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows

Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.

In people's eyes I readPages of malice and sin.

There is no worse sin than unbelief toward the gospel.

If we would make it evident that our conversion is sound, we must loathe and hate sin from the heart.

I am opposed to heart attacks and cancer and strokes the way I am opposed to sin.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

Father, bless me for I have sinned, I did an original sin… I poked a badger with a spoon.

It's a sin to be tired.