What Is A Sin Quotes

It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.

The focus of Satan's efforts is always the same: to deceive us into believing that the passing pleasures of sin are more satisfying than obedience.

Brethren, the crying sin of the church is her laziness after God.

A vow is a snare for sin

Alan: Conning people out of their savings. Forgery. Blackmail. Selling real estate on Mars. We could have it all. You with me, Bambi?" Sin: "Clive, I was with you from 'I'm a social worker.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided.

It ain't gun control we need; it's sin control.

But I didn’t realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people.

I saw not till now what sin brings with it - that we must tread others underfoot.

All the opportunities you let slip by! The idea, the inspiration just doesn´t come fast enough. Instead of being open, you´re closed up tight. That´s the worst sin of all - the sin of omission.

The real sin of idolatry is always committed on behalf of something similar to the State.

The only thing of my very own which I contribute to my redemption is the sin from which I need to be redeemed.

Until we acknowledge our sin and guilt, we will never come to discover that it can be forgiven.

Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.

In the deepest sense, the being in a state of sin is the sin, the particular sins are not the continuation of sin, they are expressions of its continuation.

It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.

Sin endeavors to subject the blessed God to the humor and lust of every person in the world

The voice of Christ is so powerful that it awakens the spiritually dead in the grave of sin to hear it and live.

Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

Ploutos , no wonder mortals worship you: You are so tolerant of their sins !

I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I am a martyr, if you insist.

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.

He that avoideth not small faults, by little and little falleth into greater.

Sins are so remitted, as if they had never been committed.

Unbelief is the greatest of sins.

This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.

I hate the sin, but I love the sinner.

Never feel dumb. Not knowing who or what is no sin. Ignorance is simply the measure of what you haven't got to yet. I find writers and works every day that I haven't got to, haven't even heard of.

The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.

He that commits a sin shall find the pressing guilt lie heavy on his mind.

Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.

When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?

God's decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so fast, that neither sin, death, nor hell, can break it asunder.

If you have a small view of your sin, God's grace will be small to you.

The sin under all other sins is a lack of joy in Christ.

The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness.

When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.

Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living God.

The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong

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.

I imagined that the priestly ceremony was perfect sanctification, and that the sin of sins was for either husband or wife to be false to that relation.

To have a sense of sin means to feel guilty at there being an ethical choice to make, a guilt which, however "good" I may become, remains unchanged.

If one's conscience is willing to confess whatever sins have been committed, including the sin of unbelief, it will be sorrowful in a godly way, earnestly desiring the mercy of God.