Top 100 Billy Graham Sin Quotes
#1. Repent when you fail, and immediately seek God's forgiveness and restoration. Sin breaks our fellowship with God.
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#2. Sin's masterpiece of shame and hate became God's masterpiece of mercy and forgiveness. Through the death of Christ upon the cross, sin itself was crucified for those who believe in Him.
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#3. Jesus did not die on the cross for people's sin so that we would believe in Heaven - but that we would believe in Him. Heaven does not save souls ... it collects them.
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#4. In all of these centuries there has not been the slightest shadow of change in the nature of God or in His attitude toward sin.
The Bible teaches from the beginning to the end that adultery and fornication are sin, and the attitude of churchmen does not alter its character.
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#5. Satan rejoices when old habits overwhelm [us] and we cave in to the pressure of the crowd ... perhaps temptation lures [us] into sin ... a backsliding Christian compromises their faith and causes unbelievers to mock the Gospel.
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#6. Sin is serious - so serious it sent Jesus Christ to the cross. Flee from [sin] and stay close to Christ.
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#7. The Christian is not to be disturbed by the
chaos, violence, strife, bloodshed, and threat of war that fill the pages of our daily newspapers. We know that these things are the consequences of man's sin and greed. Every day as I read my newspaper I say: The Bible is true.
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#8. It is the Holy Spirit who brings about conviction [of sin] ... repentance cannot take place unless first there is a movement of the Holy Spirit in the heart and mind.
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#9. The converted person will love the good he once hated, and hate the sin he once loved.
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#10. God's holiness demands that sin be punished - but God's love has provided the way of redemption through Christ.
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#11. Sin has progressed and gained momentum;
[man] seems to have lost his ability to be shocked. Behavior that was once considered abominable is now acceptable.
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#12. A transformed life is the greatest of all miracles. Every time a person is "born again" by repentance of sin and faith in Jesus Christ, the miracle of regeneration is performed.
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#13. We all have a terminal disease far worse than cancer that will kill us morally and spiritually.
It's called sin.
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#14. God judges mankind by the standard of the only God-man who ever lived, Jesus Christ. Jesus, the innocent Lamb of God, stands between our sin and the judgment of God the Father.
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#15. Make it your goal to become more like Christ by refusing to let sin have its way, and pursuing instead that which is pure and good in the sight of God.
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#16. We have become so tolerant and accepting of the world's ways that it is hard for many in the church to notice the sin much less answer how it crept in. The church is to be in the world, but worldliness is not to infiltrate the church.
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#17. The Bible does not teach that sin is completely eradicated from the Christian in this life, but it does teach that sin shall no longer reign over you.
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#18. We've tried calling sin "errors" or mistakes" or "poor judgment," but sin itself has stayed the same. No matter how we try to salve our conscience, we've known all along that men are still sinners; and the results of sin are still disease, disappointment, disillusionment, despair, and death.
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#19. There is less teaching about sin, and very little warning of judgment.
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#20. The most devastating effect of sin is that by it, we are blinded to it.
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#21. Philosophically, war is an extension of man's struggle with sin and evil in the world.
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#22. Why did Jesus Christ leave heaven's glory
and enter this sin-infested world? For one reason: to make our eternal salvation possible.
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#23. Understanding the consequence of sin and arrogance should motivate every Christian to pray for repentance and revival.
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#24. God's grace - His goodness and love toward us in spite of our sin - is the wellspring of our salvation.
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#25. Salvation is always "good news." It is news of God's love and forgiveness - adoption into His family - fellowship with His people - freedom from the penalty of sin - liberation from the power of sin.
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#26. Sin then is not a toy with which to play but a terror to be shunned.
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#27. We want to be relevant ... However, the more relevant we become to a sin-dominated world, the more irrelevant we actually are to God.
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#28. Sin lies at the heart of chaotic world conditions as we now know them and as they have existed through the centuries.
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#29. Nothing can alter the fact that God calls perversion sin.
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#30. Sin has tarnished every area of life, and [Christ] wants to erase its stain everywhere.
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#31. Superficial views of God and His holiness will produce superficial views of sin and atonement. God hates sin. It is His uncompromising foe. Sin is vile and detestable in the sight of God ... The sinner and God are at opposite poles of the moral universe.
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#32. Only the Lord Jesus can redeem the soul that is steeped in guilt and shame. This baggage weighs us down until we accept Jesus' gift - the gift that liberates souls from sin's power.
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#33. Perversion is considered a biological abnormality rather than a sin. These things are contrary to the teaching of God's Word. And God has not changed. His standards have not been lowered. God still calls immorality a sin and the Bible says God is going to judge it.
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#34. Sooner or later we must leave our dream world and face up to the facts of God, sin, and judgment. The Bible says, "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God" [Romans 3:23 NIV].
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#35. By [Christ's] resurrection life, He gives us the power over the tendency to sin as we allow Him to control our lives.
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#36. Sometimes ... we grow homesick for heaven. Many times in the midst of the sin, suffering, and sorrow of this life there is a tug at our soul. That is homesickness coupled with anticipation.
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#37. Sin also affects the conscience, until one becomes slow to detect the approach of sin.
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#38. We cannot ask forgiveness over and over again for our sins, and then return to our sins, expecting God to forgive us. We must turn from our practice of sin as best we know how, and turn to Christ by faith as our Lord and Savior.
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#39. Only the Holy Spirit can open our eyes. Only He can convict us of the depth of our sin, and only He can convince us of the truth of the Gospel.
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#40. True repentance is a turning from sin ... Humanly speaking, it is our small part in the plan of salvation. Our part is repenting. God will do the converting, the transforming, and the forgiving.
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#41. Learn to take sin seriously - be on guard against it and resist its tug, fight its power. But most of all learn to take the Holy Spirit seriously, calling on Him to help you overcome sin's power and live a holy and godly life.
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#42. Sin is the second most powerful force in the universe, for it sent Jesus to the cross. Only one force is greater - the love of God.
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#43. Believe that Christ died for you. He suffered for you. He won the battle over sin for you. He rose from the grave and was victorious over death so that you can live forever.
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#44. A life touched by the Holy Spirit will tolerate sin no longer.
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#45. We make a mockery of God's forgiveness when we deliberately engage in sin because we think He will forgive it later.
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#46. Sin diverts some. Pleasure diverts others. Social service and "religious" activity divert others. We are told to be occupied with Jesus Christ Himself.
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#47. Sin, like a deadly cancer, has invaded every area of our lives: our bodies, our minds, our emotions, our wills - everything.
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#48. Sin - plain, old-fashioned sin, the self-same sin which caused Adam's downfall - is what we are all suffering from today, and it will do us far more harm than good to try to dress it up with a fancy, more attractive label.
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#49. The influence of sin touches the innocent as well as the guilty.
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#50. We don't need to be crippled any longer by the disease of sin - because God has provided the cure.
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#51. It is possible through sin to harden our hearts against God so long that we lose all desire for God. The Scripture says: "God also gave them up" [Romans 1:24 KJV].
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#52. What stirs God most is not physical suffering but sin. All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die.
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#54. The Bible teaches that all sin begins with sinful thinking.
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#55. When that glorious day comes, sin and death will be destroyed and Satan will be banished. All the strife and hatred and suffering and death that twist and scar this world will vanish, and the Lord's Prayer will be fulfilled: God's will will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
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#56. Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins.
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#57. Man himself is helpless to detach himself from the gnawing guilt of a heart weighed down with the guilt of sin. But where man has failed, God has succeeded.
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#58. Blood is the symbol of the life sacrificed for sin.
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#59. Christ can take the most sin-laden, selfish, evil person and bring forgiveness and new life.
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#60. The late Dr. Harry Ironside once said, "Beware lest we mistake our prejudices for our convictions." To be sure, we must deplore wickedness, evil, and wrongdoing, but our commendable intolerance of sin too often develops into a deplorable intolerance of sinners. Jesus hates sin but loves the sinner.
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#61. You and I, God's ambassadors, are called to sound the warning, to call sinners to repentance, to point the way to peace with God and the hope that is in Christ.
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#62. When we come to Christ, God calls us out of this world's sin and confusion. But then He sends us back into the world - not to share any longer in its sin and spiritual darkness, but to bear witness to the light of Christ.
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#63. We can be convicted of sin - we can pray and confess our sin - we can repent - but the real test is our willingness to obey.
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#65. God longs for men to be saved. God is at work to get men to stop their downward plunge in sin.
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#66. Every manifestation of evil is the result of basic sin - sin that has remained unchanged since the moment it first entered the human race.
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#67. Jesus invited us not to a picnic, but to a pilgrimage. He offered us, not an excursion, but an execution. Our Savior said that we would have to be ready to die to self, sin, and the world.
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#68. The lukewarm Christian can accomplish nothing with a whole life in which to do it. If you have lived for sin and self ... your witness will have [a] telling effect on all who have known you.
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#69. Before Satan there was no sin, and before sin there was no pain.
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#70. Temptation is not a sin. It is the yielding that is sin. All temptation is from the devil.
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#71. The Bible teaches that Satan is the author of sin. Sin is the reason we have afflictions, including death. All of our problems and our suffering are a result of man's rebellion
against God. But God has provided a rescue in His Son.
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#72. The cross shows the seriousness of our sin
but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.
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#73. There is a difference between sin and sins. Sin is the root; sins are the fruit.
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#74. If God were to eradicate all evil from this planet, He would have to eradicate all evil men. Who would be exempt? "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" [Romans 3:23 NIV].
God would rather transform the evil man than eradicate him.
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#75. Compassion is not complete in itself, but must be accompanied by inflexible justice and wrath against sin and a desire for holiness.
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#76. We have a mandate to speak out against "the sin that so easily entangles" [Hebrews 12:1 NIV]; for though we are not of the world, we are still in it.
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#77. Christians are to be "the light of the world" [Matthew 5:14], illuminating the darkness caused by sin and giving guidance to a world that has lost its way.
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#78. The church was designed to proclaim God's love and forgiveness to all people and declare that Jesus Christ came to eradicate sin in people's hearts.
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#79. Self-centered indulgence, pride and a lack of shame over sin are now emblems of the American lifestyle.
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#80. The difference between the non-Christian and the Christian is that the non-Christian makes sin a practice; the true Christian does not.
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#81. As much as we hate to admit it, we are sinners by birth. We are also sinners by choice. We are also sinners by practice.
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#82. We have largely lost sight of the holiness and purity of God today. This is one reason why we tolerate sin so easily.
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#83. To find the right path, we first need to remember why we are on the wrong path. The reason can be put in one word: sin.
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#84. God can break the chain of every sin that binds you if you are willing to give it up. He comes into your heart and gives you power to overcome sin.
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#85. The Bible teaches that whosoever is born of God does not practice sin.
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#86. The seed of sin is in us when we are born.
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#87. Anyone who has genuinely seen God is deeply convicted of his or her own sin.
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#88. [Mankind has] allowed worldly desires and pleasures to fill the heart and mind. Whatever the sin, we need to repent and turn to Jesus Christ in faith for forgiveness and new life.
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#89. On the cross Christ took upon Himself every sin we've ever committed - including anger.
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#90. Galatians 5:21 constitutes the most serious warning to those who may think they can sin that grace may abound.
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#91. We do not have a paradise on earth; it is riddled with so much sin and disease.
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#92. The greatest vision of sin that a person can
ever receive is to look at the cross.
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#93. God's will is for us to commit our lives to Christ and follow Him. God's will also is that we avoid sin.
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#94. Time and tide and the ravages of sin take their toll on the most noble achievements of man.
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#95. God never meant that people were to wear clothes. He meant we were to be nude. But we were in a state of innocence. Then sin came into the human race and became a blood poisoning.
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#96. It would be the greatest tragedy if I didn't tell you that unless you repent of your sins and receive Christ as your Savior, you are going to be lost.
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#97. Man seeks to excuse himself of sin, but God seeks to convict him of it and to save him from it. Sin is no amusing toy - it is a terror to be shunned! Learn, then, what constitutes sin in the eyes of God!
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#98. It is entirely possible to be deeply sorry because of the devastation which sin has wrought in our lives - and yet not repent.
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#99. The Bible says there is a certain pleasure in sin.
However, it is short-lived and fatal.
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#100. Cannot come to Christ unless the Holy Spirit convicts us of our sin.
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