Top 100 A Sinner Quotes
#1. In case you're not bright enough to figure it out, there's a real upside to having a sinner like me answer your phone. I lie, and your conscience stays clear.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#3. 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
#4. One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner.
John Bunyan
#5. If you violate laws of God, you're a sinner.
If you violate laws of men, you're a criminal.
If you violate your own laws, you're pathetic.
Toba Beta
#7. The gospel has two parts. It has the part that says you're a sinner, and it has the part that says you're loved and accepted.
Timothy Keller
#8. I'm a sinner. I fumble. People must see me as one of them. The things that worry them, must worry me
Patrice Motsepe
#9. 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
#10. 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
#12. For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the world that requires a public acknowledgement of sin as a condition for membership.
R.C. Sproul
#13. With the world in the state it is today, whoever is virtuous must be so to the point of sainthood, and even beyond; whoever is a sinner must be so to the point of bestiality and even beyond. Today the middle road is no more.
Nikos Kazantzakis
#14. You are a sinner married to a sinner ... and the happiest marriage is the union of two forgivers.
Skip Heitzig
#15. The mercies of God make a sinner proud, but a saint humble.
Thomas Watson
#16. 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
#17. Ask yourself this question: Of this had been a white child found dead in a black neighborhood, would they be knocking on every door? 'Yes, sir.' Searching high and low? 'Yes, indeed.' It this had been a white child, would they paint him as a sinner and not a saint? 'Lord, no...
Ravi Howard
#18. 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
#19. I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.
Charles Peguy
#20. But you will find yourself disarmed utterly, and your accusing spirit transformed into loving forgiveness the moment you remember that you did, in fact, marry only a sinner, and so did he.
Elisabeth Elliot
#21. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world.
Martin Luther
#22. He took from my body, my heart, my soul. In return he gave himself to me the only way he knew how: with bruising hands, passionate kisses, and hard thrusts.
His body was sin, his cock was sin, and I was a sinner.
K.I. Lynn
#24. I am sharing my faith with my sons. I pray, meditate and read devotionally. But let me be clear: I am a "person of faith" not because I am a saint, but because I am a sinner.
Van Jones
#25. Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
#26. It was harder to see how a boy like that, so inspired by a saint, could be attracted to a sinner like me.
Amy Harmon
#27. For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?
Paul The Apostle
#28. It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.
Jerome K. Jerome
#29. If God be just, I, a sinner, alone and without a substitute, must be punished; but Jesus stands in my stead and is punished for me; and now, if God be just, I, a sinner, standing in Christ, can never be punished.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#30. Patience of a saint. The mind of a sinner.
Ella Frank
#31. 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
#32. Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner.
David Bowie
#33. The one who was never a sinner became (through God's imputation) completely identified with sin, our sin. He was completely identified with an innumerable host of sins, took them all upon himself, closed his arms upon them in an obedient embrace, and died. That is why there is no condemnation.
Douglas Wilson
#34. Man got into difficulty when he lifted his will against God's. He gets out of trouble when he bows to the divine superiority, when he repents and says humbly: "God be merciful to me a sinner." Man's extremity then becomes God's opportunity.
Billy Graham
#35. I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
Nelson Mandela
#36. Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
Oscar Wilde
#37. Thou didst love me before I loved thee,
an enemy, a sinner, a loathsome worm.
Arthur Bennett
#38. I am Patrick, yes a sinner and indeed untaught; yet I am established here in Ireland where I profess myself bishop. I am certain in my heart that 'all that I am,' I have received from God. So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.
Saint Patrick
#39. I am a sinner ... who's probably gonna sin again ... Lord forgive me!
Kendrick Lamar
#40. However great a sinner may have been, if he shows himself devout to Mary he will never perish.
Hilary Of Poitiers
#41. If a sinner comes into your assembly or you otherwise come into contact with him, remember that he is a human being for whom Christ died. He stands at the foot of the cross, just as you stand at the foot of the cross.
J. Vernon McGee
#42. No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned killer. We all know were mortal, and yet we all believe we'll live forever.
Christopher Pike
#43. In the land of the killers, a sinner's mind is a sanctum.
Eminem
#44. The holder of a
monopoly is a sinner and offender
Anonymous
#45. A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.
Mahatma Gandhi
#46. 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
#48. I complained to Waki' about the weakness of my memorisation,
So he instructed me to abandon disobedience;
He informed me that knowledge is a light,
And the light of Allah is not given to a sinner.
Al-Shafi'i
#49. I am not a saint; I am a sinner. I want to sin again and
again and again.
S. Jae-Jones
#50. You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.
Joel Osteen
#51. The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn't sin but wants to sin.
Criss Jami
#52. Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.
William Shakespeare
#54. 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
#55. God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.
Archibald Alexander
#56. 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
#57. If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic.
Joseph Addison
#58. When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin there is. All I have to tell them is that I, too, am a sinner.
Karl Barth
#60. Woe, woe is me that I am a sinner, that I grieve this blessed God, who is infinite in goodness and grace!
Anonymous
#61. 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
#62. '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
#63. When God justifies a sinner, everything in God is on the sinner's side. All the attributes of God are on the sinner's side. It isn't that mercy is pleading for the sinner and justice is trying to beat him to death. All of God does all that God does.
A.W. Tozer
#64. Call me a sinner,
Mock me maliciously:
I was your insomnia,
I was your grief.
Anna Akhmatova
#66. 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
#67. As she conceived it, tea had to be as black as tar and as strong as a sinner's conscience. Or the other way around. As black as that conscience and as strong as tar. And sweet.
Sergei Lukyanenko
#68. This is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff. I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.
Pope Francis
#69. 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
#71. But really, why should you distress yourself? Whoever stirs up the past - out with his eye! Who is not a sinner before God and to blame before the Tsar, as the saying is?
Leo Tolstoy
#72. A monument of grace, A sinner saved by blood; The streams of love I trace Up to the Fountain, God; And in His sacred bosom see Eternal thoughts of Love to me.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#73. In truth, there is no such thing as a "sinner" for no-one can be sinned against-least of all me.
Neale Donald Walsch
#74. In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner.
Richard John Neuhaus
#75. The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.
Max Von Sydow
#76. All I know is that I'm a sinner and that God has forgiven me of my sins. Because I put my faith and trust in Jesus Christ.
Franklin Graham
#77. God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
Saint Ambrose
#78. Anyone who is a sinner in the human race ... is a candidate for salvation.
Debora Hooper
#79. God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.
Georgette Heyer
#80. I prayed maybe he hadn't seen me after all, that maybe he'd taken off after a sinner or a squirrel, instead.
Jennifer Niven
#81. When you are depressed, bear in mind the Lord's command to Peter to forgive a sinner seventy times seven (cf. Mt. 18:22). And you may be sure that He Who gave this command to another will Himself do very much more.
John Climacus
#82. I've changed my ways - from what roles I was picking till now. I don't do straight "faith" movies. It's one thing I always tell people. I'm not a preacher, I'm a sinner. I'm still learning and falling in a journey that God has me on and doing the best I can.
Drew Waters
#83. They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.
Brigitte Bardot
#84. A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
Jonathan Edwards
#85. He said God could distinguish a sinner from a sin.
Alice Hoffman
#87. 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
#88. God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#89. 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
#90. 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.
Martin Luther
#91. 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
#92. I have a tender reliance on the mercy of the Almighty, through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am a sinner. I look to Him for mercy; pray for me.
Alexander Hamilton
#93. It is not the way to convert a sinner to knock him down first and then reason with him.
Samuel I. Prime
#94. 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
#95. I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
Saint Patrick
#96. 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
#97. Imagine, for example, that you're walking into a church. To be admitted through the front door, you're forced to sign a waiver that says, "I'm a sinner and by stepping into the room today I acknowledge that fact.
John Zahl
#98. Infinite knowledge, infinite vision, infinite energy of the Soul is in the same state even today. The Soul has never been a sinner. The Soul is absolutely pure.
Dada Bhagwan
#99. When God accepts a sinner, He is, in fact, only accepting Christ. He looks into the sinner's eyes, and He sees His own dear Son's image there, and He takes him in.
Charles Spurgeon
#100. You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not!
Agatha Christie
