What Is A Sin Quotes
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
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.
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?
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.
The economy needs a stimulus. We MUST borrow. The notion of debt as a sin or something evil should be reviewed.
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.
How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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.
The Devil knows your name but calls you by your sin. God knows your sin but calls you by your name.
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.
It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.
A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.
In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.
This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.
I have prayed for years for one good humiliation a day, and then, I must watch my reaction to it. I have no other way of spotting both my denied shadow self and my idealized persona.
Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.
People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.
By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.
I wish I could say that everything I do is for God’s glory but I can’t. And neither can you. What I can say is Jesus’ blood covers all my efforts to glorify myself.
That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.
O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good.
I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts.
Receiving the Holy Ghost is the therapy which effects forgiveness and heals the sin-sick soul.
To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid “big” sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?
This is the sin against the Holy Ghost: - To speak of bloody power as right divine, And call on God to guard each vile chief's house, And for such chiefs, turn men to wolves and swine.