Avoiding Sin Quotes

#1. Being a Christian is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

Eric Metaxas

#2. Avoiding sin isn't about us not getting in trouble; it is about us trusting that the Creator knows his creation best and has designed the world to work in a certain way.

Jefferson Bethke

#3. If you're avoiding sin and living morally so that God will have to bless you and save you, then you may be looking to Jesus as a teacher, model, and helper, but ironically you are avoiding him as Savior. You are trusting in your own goodness rather than in Jesus for your standing with God.

Timothy Keller

#4. Don't expect too much from others because people behave according to their perspective, not yours. Accept people as they are and avoid controlling them, only then they will give you their best.

Hina Hashmi

#5. Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier.

John Eisenhower

#6. Little things. The thought of losing them makes them unbearably dear ... I only think of the sweetness. Simple things. The quarter moon, the taste of an orange. The smell of the pages of a new book.

Patricia Gaffney

#7. A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all - and more amusing.

C.S. Lewis

#8. Happy will that house be in which the relations are formed from character; after the highest, and not after the lowest order; the house in which character marries, and not confusion and a miscellany of unavowable motives.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. My dad always played Anne Murray in the car on the way to the dump when I was a kid.

Seth MacFarlane

#10. If you have bought one of those T-shirts with Maxwell's equations on the front, you may have to worry about its going out of style, but not about its becoming false. We will go on teaching Maxwellian electrodynamics as long as there are scientists.

Steven Weinberg

#11. When you're that resigned and oppressed you're already dead. It shows the genocide was prepared for too long. I detest this fear. These victims of genocide had been psychologically prepared to expect death just for being Tutsi. They were being killed for so long that they were already dead.

Philip Gourevitch

#12. On a small scale, person-to-person, Jesus encountered the kinds of suffering common to all of us. And how did he respond? Avoiding philosophical theories and theological lessons, he reached out with healing and compassion. He forgave sin, healed the afflicted, cast out evil, and even overcame death.

Philip Yancey

#13. This is biblical ethics. It has little to do with the middle-class ethics of avoiding a few things which are supposed to be wrong and doing a few things which are supposed to be right. Biblical ethics means standing in ultimate decisions for or against God.

Paul Tillich

#14. When a writer tries to copy another writer, it's doomed to fail.

Sophie Hannah

#15. I have as many pairs of sneakers as I have shoes.

Alysia Reiner

#16. What am I doing here? The Southern Star has vanished, a Cataclyst is calling the moon out of time at the mythical Great Barrier, and you're asking what I'm doing here? Are you serious?

Kami Garcia

#17. Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials.

Ibn Taymiyyah

#18. It is by avoiding future sin that we retain a remission of the sins of the past.

Henry B. Eyring

#19. Trevor, let's go upstairs and take a really hot bath with extra bubbles so that my skin gets all sudsy and slippery so you can run your incredibly gifted naughty hands over me while we see how many times you can make me come before the water gets cold

R.L. Mathewson

#20. From Bill Murray in the movie Groundhog Day Maybe God isn't omnipotent. Maybe he's just been around so long, he knows everything.

Phil Connors

#21. The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden.

Edward Carpenter

#22. Why can't I seem to control my reactions? I stuff. I explode.

Lysa TerKeurst

#23. I love you too, Stark.

P.C. Cast