What Is A Sin Quotes

Sin spoils the spirit's delicacy, and unwillingness deadens its susceptibility.

Self-pity is a sin. It is a form of living suicide.

If the Savior has not sanctified you, renewed you, given you a hatred of sin and a love of holiness, He has nothing in you of a saving character.

He is ready to cleanse you, It is sin, after all, that lies at the door and blocks you way to the Savior.

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree.

He casts our sins behind His back, He blots them out; He says that though they be sought for, they shall not be found.

We must show sympathy with sinners, but not with their sins.

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

That conversion which is all joy and lacks sorrow for sin, is very questionable.

The angels did not merely sin and lose heaven, but they passed beyond all other beings in sin and made themselves fit denizens for hell.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.

He alone can remit sins who is appointed our Master by the Father of all; He only is able to discern obedience from disobedience.

To sin is to be off the mark, that is, to inhibit development, contracting backward into regression rather than expanding forward into growth.

It turns out that speeding irresponsibly in a large truck, placing personal wealth ahead of the welfare of others, is one of the greatest sins in the Universe.

A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.

Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you're married and her name's Bertha

Feelings can be controlled and behavior can be controlled. The line of sin is between the feelings and the behavior. The line of prudence is between the susceptibility and the feelings.

Everyone thinks that religion is the ball and chain. But the reality is that sin is the ball and chain. A relationship with Christ is the freedom that people are looking for in alcohol and drugs.

One of the things capitalism does is, it does enhance and exacerbate the sin of pride, making yourself, the material world the center of your universe, instead of God's will.

Debt - like sin - implies that one party in the transaction didn't live up to expectations, at least in the moment, and has done something wrong.

Weak coffee is the greatest sin against humanity.

I see no sin in a kiss. I only see sin in the condemnation

Jesus died for our sins," Noah says solemnly. "What?!?" I reply, choking back my thoughts. "I was just seeing if you were listening.

....Only you mattered in that moment. Only you. And I would have done anything to save you. I would have paid any price committed any sin sold my very soul to do it.

Sin is in, and so we begin.

Without Your life I know there is no life. For I was dead in sin and You gave life to me! Without Your life I'd surely rather die! Lord Jesus, live Your life through me! You are life to me!

If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it.

Our deeds will not cause God to love us more; our sins will not cause God to love us less.

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. It was a sin to even pluck your eyebrows, and they thought it was a sin for me to be there looking like Jezebel.

Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.

There are times when one is tempted to say that the great, sprawling, lethargic sin of Sloth is the oldest and greatest of the sins and the parent of all the rest.

Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.

The war has jerked us pretty sharply into consciousness about this slug-a-bed sin of Sloth, and perhaps we need not say too much about it. But two warnings are rather necessary.

This can come as a shock to those Christians who are so used to hearing that Jesus is the solution to sin that they assume that the remedy started with the death of Jesus.

Silence is regarded as a sort of sin now, and it has to be filled with a lot of gossip and soundbites.

Lying covers a multitude of sins - temporarily.

I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution.

You don't need to condemn. Just observe, That is sin. That is insanity. That is unconsciousness. Above all, don't forget to observe your own mind. Seek out the root of the insanity there.

And much of Madness, and more of Sin, And Horror the soul of the plot.

The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.

...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

I had a little sorrow, Born of a little sin.

Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.

Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.

He sins against this life, who slights the next.

You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.

I am not sure just what the unpardonable sin is, but I believe it is a disposition to evade the payment of small bills.

The sins I regret the most are the one's I didn't commit.