What Is A Sin Quotes

If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.

I don't watch many comic-book movies. But I loved 'Sin City.'

We’re too Christian to enjoy sin and too sinful to enjoy Christ. We’ve got just enough Jesus to be informed, but not enough to be transformed.

If you want to love God better, hate sin more.

What did all the saints have in common? They feared sin more than even physical death.

God loves us too much to pretend our sin isn't there. Sin is a cancer and Christ the surgeon. True prayer signs the consent form.

Sometimes we forget that sin really is optional.

If your sin feels "too big," your vision of God is too small.

Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.

The spirit of wrath - not the words - is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk.

God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously... Do not for a moment imagine that this life is the abiding place of justice; sin must be committed.

A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.

The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.

Of all deadly sins, this is the most deadly, namely, that any one should think he is not guilty of a damnable and deadly sin before God.

The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.

I'll tell you, I've seen the lightning flash. I've heard the thunder roll. I felt sin-breakers dashing, trying to conquer my soul. But I heard the voice of Jesus saying still to fight on.

Grace does not make sin safe. But grace does make sinners safe.

Engaging the city around us and ministering to its needs reveal to us the remaining bastions of sin in our lives, the areas we refuse to surrender to God.

Social awkwardness is not a sin, in defense of liberty.

The discipline of the Old Testament may be summed up as a discipline teaching us to abhor and flee from sin; the discipline of the New Testament, as a discipline teaching us to die to it.

Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.

Rejoicing is the essence of genuine worship. A sad face (apart from remorse for sin or regret concerning the pain of others) is an affront to a gracious and generous God.

Jesus came to save us from our own sins.

When Jesus died on the cross, so did your sin; when He rose from the dead, so did your HOPE.

To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion.

It's against God's nature to remember forgiven sins

God saves. Specifically he will save his people from their sins.

It's impossible not to be taken in by the spectacle of oneself, which is the biggest sin of the culture right now.

A sin is anything you do which goes against yourself

Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.

I did a dozen superhero pinups. I signed them "Kirby/Royer" because it was Kirby's drawing. I didn't think I was committing some sort of sin.

To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.

The advantage of being able to identify sin is that you can go out and do it, and enjoy it.

The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin.

Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission.

Are your eyelashes like your hair?” “Yes. They’re very beautiful—want to see?” Her lips twitched. “Vanity is a sin,Bluebell.” “When you have it, flaunt it, I say.” -Elena and Illium

Greatest sin of man kind: neglect to use his greatest asset.

We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.

We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in itself, is not good to do religiously.

But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more!

The sin forgiven by Christ in HeavenBy man is cursed alway.

They all do the same things. They may think their sins are original, but for the most part they are petty and repetitive.

American Suiteheart I must confess Im in love with my own sins

Sin makes us moral quadriplegics.

As a believer is changed, receiving a glorified body, so similarly, the earth is changed into a new earth, unstained by sin.

It's no sin to make a critical study of Brazil's reality. A small percentage own land. Most people don't.

Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.

The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.

Only saints can save the world. And only our own sins can stop us from being saints.

When we believe that God is something other than a lover, it is inevitable that we will sin.