Admitting Sin Quotes

#1. Like David we have a number of self-destructive options we use to avoid repenting and admitting sin. I'll list them and let you come up with personal examples for each: deny, avoid, blame shift, rationalize, and give excuses. If you can't think of how you've used these, you may be stuck in denial!

James MacDonald

#2. 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

#3. He was awake; probably he had had the same dream as she. They had the same starry stuff in their veins, after all.

Maggie Stiefvater

#4. She was my ground, my favorite sound,
my country road, my city street,
my sky above, my only love,
and the ground beneath my feet

Salman Rushdie

#5. In other news, it's been far too long since I gloated massively about the fact that I know what's going to happen on Buffy and you all don't.

Joss Whedon

#6. Some painters turn a yellow dot into the sun, others turn the sun into a yellow dot.

Pablo Picasso

#7. I was a nice girl," she pleaded, "wasn't I?

J.D. Salinger

#8. When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.

Salman Rushdie

#9. Photography's central role is to be the absolute medium of the day. It is fantastic that there is no longer any technical intimidation.

Martin Parr

#10. I smoke a pipe abroad, because
To all cigars I much prefer it,
And as I scorn you social laws,
My choice has nothing to deter it.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#11. The story of Joseph is in the Bible for this reason: to teach you to trust God to trump evil. What Satan intends for evil, God, the Master Weaver and Master Builder, redeems for good.

Max Lucado

#12. In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.

Jack Nicholson