Top 100 A Sinner Quotes
#1. You can be courageous in admitting your sin precisely because God is richly abundant in his mercy. He comes to you in mercy not because you are good but because you are a sinner, and he knows that because of this condition, you are unable to help yourself.
Paul David Tripp
#2. My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, He is my righteousness.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#5. Never water down the Word of God, but preach it in its undiluted sternness. There must be unflinching faithfulness to the Word of God, but when you come to personal dealings with others, remember who you are - you are not some special being created in heaven, but a sinner saved by grace.
Oswald Chambers
#6. The law stops every man's mouth. God will have a man humble himself down on his face before Him, with not a word to say for himself. Then God will speak to him, when he owns that he is a sinner, and gets rid of all his own righteousness.
Dwight L. Moody
#7. I put my faith in Christ as a child. At a young age, I had a simple understanding of these basic facts: I was born a sinner; my nature is inclined toward sin. God, the Creator of all, establishes that there is punishment for sin. He will judge my sin, and I should receive His wrath.
Carrie Ward
#8. A wanderer's repose or a sinner's reformation should never depend on a fellow-creature. Men and women die; philosophers falter in wisdom, and Christians in goodness: if any one you know has suffered and erred, let him look higher than his equals for strength to amend and solace to heal.
Charlotte Bronte
#9. Too many are not willing to give the Gospel a fair trial. They are too ignorant to speak wisely but not wise enough to speak ignorantly. A man is not a sinner because he is a skeptic; he is a skeptic because he is a sinner.
Vance Havner
#10. Remember when Jesus was hanging out with that one dude that kept messing up his life with sin and Jesus was like "You are a dumb sinner, I am totally going to judge you!"
Yeah, me neither. I wonder sometimes if all Christians are really reading the same Bible.
Jonathan Welton
#11. To think, "I am a sinner, oh Father, save me," is a defective approach! You should say, "I am your son, I am your daughter, oh Father, take me on your lap, I am your child." This will be the approach. You should forget what you do not want.
Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar
#12. Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.
Ted Dekker
#13. Do you feel yourself to be a lost, guilty sinner? Go straightway to the cross of Christ,
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#14. Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'
Marilyn Manson
#15. I understand I'm a sinner. I'm not perfect, and I need a Savior, and that I'm not going to make it to Heaven on merits and doing good things.
Matt Holliday
#16. Here lay Cain's fatal mistake: "He was rejected, not because he was a sinner, but because, being a sinner, he had dared to approach a holy God without blood."
Charles Henry Mackintosh
#17. The beginning of knowledge is to know thyself a sinner.
Johnny Hunt
#18. You make me a sinner if you stop me giving you hospitality.
Idries Shah
#19. No sinner is irreparable or irredeemable. No sin is so great that the blood of Jesus cannot cover it. His love is so deep and wide that he can, in one moment of our faith, forgive our past, present, and future sins. Sin is simply not a problem for God.
Judah Smith
#20. Sinner" and "saint" are waves of differing size and magnitude on the surface of the same sea. Each is a natural outcome of forces in the universe; each is governed by time and causation. Nobody is utterly lost, and nobody need despair
David James Duncan
#21. The prayer of one who does not consider himself a sinner is not accepted by the Lord.
Isaac Of Nineveh
#22. There were in it metaphors as monstrous as orchids, and as subtle in color. The life of the senses was
described in the terms of mystical philosophy. One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some medieval saint or the
morbid confessions of a modern sinner.
Charlotte Bronte
#24. The fool who repeats again and again: "I am bound, I am bound," remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: "I am a sinner, I am a sinner," becomes a sinner indeed.
Ramakrishna
#25. All the hungers we have for love, for union, for happiness are given by God to lead us to him. The difference between a saint and the greatest sinner is where they go to satisfy that hunger.
Christopher West
#27. Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.
Alice Childress
#28. When you call someone a sinner, make sure you have no sin in you, and if you say you are without sin, you are a righteous liar.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#29. God made His own Son to be sin that He might make the sinner a saint.
Oswald Chambers
#30. What use would God have for a sinner like me?'
'We're all sinners' Lilly said. 'The ground at the foot of the cross is even.
Jan Watson
#31. Oh! But he was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge! a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner! Hard and sharp as flint, from which no steel had ever struck out generous fire; secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster.
Charles Dickens
#32. There's a little tagline in there that I throw out to our fans, I like to call them my sinners, and I'm a fellow sinner, and so I think that's a special little throw-out to them.
Brendon Urie
#33. Justification and regeneration are simultaneous. The pardoned sinner becomes a child of God in justification.
William J. Seymour
#35. I understand religion is a walk, it's a journey. And I fully recognize that I'm a sinner, just like you.
George W. Bush
#36. It's true he was a sinner. But don't pass so final a judgement. Have pity in your heart and don't forget that he may yet be an Augustine, while you remain just another mediocrity.
Josemaria Escriva
#37. Regard yourself all the more as a sinner because you cannot feel yourself to be what you are.
Walter Hilton
#39. My purposes do not always include God's good. I am a sinner.
R.C. Sproul
#40. Don't say that a loving God is going to send you to hell- He's not. The thing that's going to send you to hell is that you're a sinner and you don't want to admit it.
J. Vernon McGee
#41. The writer is neither saint nor tzaddik nor prophet standing at the gate; he's just another sinner who has a somewhat sharper awareness and uses slightly more precise language to describe the inconceivable reality of our world.
Etgar Keret
#42. Dear God, I know I am a sinner. Forgive me and pardon me for waiting so long. I receive your love and salvation and ask you to live your life through me. I accept you as my Savior and resolve to live for you until you come again.
Tim LaHaye
#43. I do not stand here before you as a self-righteous saint who has achieved spiritual perfection, but as a sinner who has received Jesus into his heart as his Lord and Savior.
Thomas J. Paprocki
#44. No fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin.
Don Paterson
#45. To acknowledge that I am yet a sinner is not to deny that I am a saint but to acknowledge how I became one, by grace.
R.C. Sproul Jr.
#46. Lucifer was engraving Nate's name on a cage right now.
Kelly Moran
#47. I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all.
William Kent Krueger
#48. Love begets love; and thus the love of Christ displayed upon the cross woos and wins the sinner and binds him repenting to the cross, believing and adoring the matchless depths of a Saviour's love.
Ellen G. White
#49. Hockey is like a religion in Montreal. You're either a saint or a sinner; there's no in-between.
Patrick Roy
#50. We're all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.
Billy Graham
#51. John Newton's final recorded words: My memory is nearly gone, but I remember two things: that I am a great sinner and that Christ is a great Savior.
Tony Reinke
#52. Now they always accuse me of carrying around a sledge hammer with which to pound the church members. Yes sir, I do pound them, every time I come down, I knock one of the halfway fellows out of the doorway, and every time I knock one out I get a sinner in.
Mordecai Ham
#53. For sin bust be punished either by the penitent sinner or by God, his judge; and God, who has promised pardon to the penitent sinner, has nowhere promised to one who delays his conversion a morrow to do penance in.
Augustine Of Hippo
#54. Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought to do, and you have got the key to every blessing that a sinner can reasonably hope for.
John Keble
#55. The monument I want after I am dead is a monument with two legs going around the world-a saved sinner telling about the salvation of Jesus Christ.
Dwight L. Moody
#56. I'm a picker, I'm a grinner, I'm a lover and I'm a sinner. I play my music in the sun.
Barnabas
#59. We are all sinners. We are called to a conversion of heart
Pope Francis
#60. The mercies of God make a sinner proud, but a saint humble.
Thomas Watson
#61. An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.
Sophie Kerr
#62. There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.
Charles Spurgeon
#63. I've been the lowest low on the planet, I've been a sinner all my days. And I was living with my hands on the trigger, I had no sense to change my ways.
Sting
#65. Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
#66. I am a great Sinner and God is a great Savior
John Newton
#67. I'm a sinner. I don't always love God as strongly as I could or as directly as I should. Ash Wednesday reminds me that it is only through God that I have life; He gave it to me. God forgives. He loves. And He gives this sinner a second chance. Put simply: my God kicks ash.
Mark Hart
#68. The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats the Fall.
Arthur Machen
#69. I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
Nelson Mandela
#70. It is a strange thing that both the injurer and the injured, the sinner and he who is sinned against, should find in the mass movement an escape from a blemished life.
Eric Hoffer
#71. The holder of a
monopoly is a sinner and offender
Anonymous
#72. Luther's doctrine of justification depends upon two things: the constant preaching of the wrath of God in the face of sin; and the realization that every Christian is at once righteous and a sinner, thus needing the hammer of the law to terrify and break the sinful conscience.
Carl R. Trueman
#73. Oh, everything's too damned expensive these days. This Bible cost 15 bucks! And talk about a preachy book! Everybody's a sinner! Except this guy.
Dan Castellaneta
#74. God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.
Archibald Alexander
#75. But getting the sinner where justice deemed he belonged was the trick. It required a system. And the system demanded its rules, techniques, manpower, organizations, and loopholes. And the occasional seminar to educate and inform.
J.D. Robb
#76. Every insecure soul has a government of their own and a paid judge in their court room.
Shannon L. Alder
#77. And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth!
John Bunyan
#78. I would never use God to promote foreign policy decisions. I recognize that in the eyes of an almighty, I am a lowly sinner, and I ask for strength and wisdom and I pray for calmness when the seas are storming, and I pray for others.
George W. Bush
#79. You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.
Charles Spurgeon
#80. He answered, "Whether or not He's a sinner, I don't know. One thing I do know: I was blind, and now I can see!" John 9:25
Beth Moore
#81. It is not the way to convert a sinner to knock him down first and then reason with him.
Samuel I. Prime
#82. Consecration is a process of surrender that never ends. And prayer is the catalyst. It begins with a sinner's prayer. We confess our sins to the Savior and surrender our lives to His lordship. And along the way, our spiritual journeys are
Mark Batterson
#83. Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.
Fulton J. Sheen
#84. When you come to God, you must come to Him in the posture - even the emotions - of a son, not that of a sinner.
Paul Silway
#85. A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous ...
John Calvin
#86. The Christian's God is a God of metamorphoses. You cast grief into his bosom: you draw thence, peace. You cast in despair: 'tis hope that rises to the surface. It is a sinner whose heart he moves. It is a saint who returns him thanks.
Sophie Swetchine
#87. I feel sad for the righteous man who cannot find understanding or compassion for a magnificent sinner like me.
David Zailer
#88. The regeneration of a sinner is an evidence of power in the highest sphere
moral nature; with the highest prerogative
to change nature; and operating to the highest result
not to create originally, which is great; but to create anew, which is greater.
William Arthur Ward
#89. God can turn stones into bread, and a sinner can turn bread into stones; the bread of life into the stone of stumbling.
Thomas Watson
#90. Cheer up! You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope.
Jack Miller
#91. Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect, is to be a disciplined sinner. Perfection, as Valery noted, is work.
Stanley Kunitz
#92. Nothing but the infinite can ever satisfy me; I am such a great sinner that I must have infinite merit to wash my sin away; but we have had our sin removed, and found that there was merit to spare; we have had our hunger relieved at the feast of sacred love
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#93. Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of this Christian order and Knights of that one, all surrounding the sinner's free will in an embattled circle.
Sean O'Casey
#96. In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
Umberto Eco
#97. THE STAGGERING QUESTION "He said to me, 'Son of man, can these bones live?'" Ezekiel 37:3 Can a sinner be turned into a saint? Can a twisted life be made right? There is only one appropriate answer - "O Lord God, You know" (37:3).
Oswald Chambers
#98. 'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none.
Charles Spurgeon
#99. Born of Black and White, Eaten with worms, I'm a Saint, a Sinner, a Siren of the Word, The Circle knows me, the rest just wanna trip on Grace Juice, Baby Showdown at midnight
Ted Dekker
#100. Every saint has a past, the sixteenth-century poet had said, and every sinner has a future.
Jan Karon
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