Top 100 Christian Sin Quotes
#1. Christian, that sin which first came between you and God is bad, but that is not the last step in the progress of sin. The most guilty part in this quadruple sin is to hide it, deny it, ignore it, refust to confess it, refuse to repent of it!
John R. Rice
#4. The gospel does in truth proclaim the redemption of reason. Obscurantism is always evil, and wilful error is always sin., All truth is God's truth; facts, as such, are sacred, and nothing is more un-Christian than to run away from them.
J.I. Packer
#5. Darkness entered into, darkness realized, is the point of departure for all profound expressions of Christian hope. 'Meaningless darkness' becomes 'revelatory darkness' when it is confronted by the courage of a thoughtfulness and hope that is born of faith's quest for truth.
Douglas John Hall
#6. A Christian counts his sorrow lighter in the scale than his sin. He can bear that his troubles should continue - but he cannot support the burden of his transgressions.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#7. I'm too big of a fan of sin and debauchery to be a Christian.
J.C. Wickhart
#8. God's decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so fast, that neither sin, death, nor hell, can break it asunder.
Thomas Watson
#9. Anyone who wonders if a Christian can sin is ignorant about sin's enslaving nature.
Timothy Keller
#11. Most Christians with bitterness have a need to justify their sin. They usually do so with virtuous names for the sin like discernment, wisdom, etc. They attract people with complaints as it confirms their discernment.
Bill Johnson
#12. Until the Second Coming, sin will remain a part of earthly existence. And as long as there is sin, there will be suffering and pain. But suffering by persecution is not a sine qua non of the church. If it is, there are few if any true churches in North America today.
Keith A. Mathison
#13. The true Christian loves his Savior with his whole heart and wants nothing to do with the sin that nailed his Redeemer to the cross.
Kirk Cameron
#14. God exposes your sin ... And you see yourself as small as you are in the presence of a holy God.
Johnny Hunt
#15. The Adversary, of course, simply wants them to lay down their sins, guilt and all, and follow Him. But this type holds on to their sinfulness and their guilt for it, because otherwise, they'd have no relationship with Him at all. And, of course, no relationship can be based on guilt and survive.
Geoffrey Wood
#16. The Jewish and particularly the Christian traditions have stressed the element of sin but have ignored the fact that it is the emancipation from the security of Paradise which is the basis for man's truly human development.
Erich Fromm
#17. The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
Barton Gellman
#18. We Christians are secure, realizing that even our failures and our sins are under His control.
Alistair Begg
#19. I believe a Christian can sin, but he does not have to. God never would have told us to reject evil acts if in point of fact we could not help but do them.
Billy Graham
#20. It is a sinful abomination for one part of the world's Christians to grow richer year by year while our brothers and sisters ache and suffer for lack of minimal health care, minimal education, and even - in some cases - enough food to escape starvation.
Ronald J. Sider
#21. There's nobody who doesn't have problems with the church, because there's sin in the church. But there's no other place to be a Christian except the church.
Eugene H. Peterson
#22. It's hard to sin if you're preoccupied with Jesus.
Derwin L. Gray
#24. Thus the defective doctrine of sin and the shallow idea of joy, working together, of necessity produce a superficial kind of person and a very inadequate kind of Christian life.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#25. Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.
Donald Miller
#26. This is the worst thing about poisons and deadly sins - that we enjoy them.
R.W. Schmidt
#28. Pride causes us to care more about what our non-Christian friends think of us than what God will do to them in their sin.
Mark Dever
#29. Experienced Christian, boast not in your experience; you will trip yet if you look away from him who is able to keep you from falling. Ye whose love is fervent, whose faith is constant, whose hopes are bright, say not, "We shall never sin," but rather cry, "Lead us not into temptation.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#30. Abortion is 'the great modern sin.
Karl Barth
#31. You can minimize your sin. Rationalize your sin. Justify your sin.
Johnny Hunt
#33. The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness.
Timothy Keller
#34. Whoever hates his sins will stop sinning; and whoever confesses them will receive remission. A man can not abandon the habit of sin if he does not first gain enmity toward sin, nor can he receive remission of sin without confession of sin. For the confession of sin is the cause of true humility.
Isaac Of Nineveh
#36. Purge me from every sinful blot;
My idols all be cast aside:
Cleanse me from every evil thought,
From all the filth of self and pride.
The hatred of the carnal mind
Out of my flesh at once remove:
Give me a tender heart, resigned,
And pure, and full of faith and love.
John Wesley
#38. The essence of sin is arrogance; the essence of salvation is submission.
Alan Redpath
#39. Anytime you commit sin and God deals with you, you have the opportunity to confess it. If you don't confess it, you only have one option but to cover it up.
Johnny Hunt
#40. If you have ever sin, you will appreciate the grace of salvation through Faith in Christ Jesus.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#42. One way to handle the discrepancy between our beliefs and our sinful inclinations is to repent, pray for grace and forgiveness, and struggle on in the belief that God will forge a greater harmony for us out of our battle with sin. That is the Christian approach. ~ p.75
William Kilpatrick
#43. In order to abide in the love of God it is essential for anger and 'hate' to attain their maximum intensity but be directed against the sin that lives in me, against the evil active in me - in me, not in my brother.
Silouan The Athonite
#44. The Christian churches were offered two things: the spirit of Jesus and the idiotic morality of Paul, and they rejected the higher inspiration ... Following Paul, we have turned the goodness of love into a fiend and degraded the crowning impulse of our being into a capital sin.
Frank Harris
#45. If the Holy Spirit is carefully and lovingly managing all our falls into sin and using them for God's glory and our good, then there is great cause for joy and peace whether you are leaping forward or crawling through the Christian life.
Barbara R. Duguid
#46. Hebrews 12:1- Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
Anonymous
#47. Light reveals righteousness, and it also reveals sin.
Theodore Epp
#48. The truth is the real Christian experience is truly about repenting every day because there is no Christian that doesn't sin.
Stephen Baldwin
#49. A Christian home! What a power it is to the child when he is far away in the cold, tempting world, and voices of sin are filling his ears, and his feet stand on slippery places.
Abbott Eliot Kittredge
#51. The notion that the careless sinner is the smart fellow and the serious-minded Christian, though well-intentioned, is a stupid dolt altogether out of touch with life will not stand up under scrutiny. Sin is basically an act of moral folly, and the greater the folly the greater the fool.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#53. The difference between the non-Christian and the Christian is that the non-Christian makes sin a practice; the true Christian does not.
Billy Graham
#54. Through Christ's satisfaction for sin, the very nature of afflictions changed with regard to believers. As death, which was, at first, the wages of sin, is now become a bed of rest (Is. 57:2); so afflictions are not the rod of God's anger, but the gentle medicine of a tender father.
Tobias Crisp
#55. If someone has repented once of a sin, and again does the same sin, this is a sign that he has not been cleansed of the causes of the sin, wherefrom, as from a root, the shoots spring forth again.
Saint Basil
#56. Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. - GALATIANS 6: 7
Paul The Apostle
#57. A woman never wrote, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." God wrote that. You sin first and foremost against God.
Johnny Hunt
#58. Make no mistake, sin has been dealt with once for all, and we are as close to Him as we will ever be.
D.R. Silva
#59. Humility and suffering free a man from all sin; for the first cuts out spiritual passions, and the latter bodily.
Maximus The Confessor
#61. Christ didn't join in. He saw which direction the rocks were being thrown, and became a shield.
Criss Jami
#62. The great sin of the average Christian is ignorance of the word of God.
J. Vernon McGee
#63. Spot the first risings of your besetting sin and kill it, till it is no more.
John Piper
#64. There is no sin that Jesus cannot forgive.
Jim George
#65. The doctrine of hell does not stand alone as a kind of ancient Christian horror story. Rather, hell is inseparable from three other interrelated biblical truths: human sin, God's holiness, and the cross of Christ.
Douglas Groothuis
#66. Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all God's commandments, making conscience even of little sins and little duties.
Joseph Alleine
#68. When you get honest with God, you can exchange the fig leaves you used to cover your sin with the righteousness of Jesus Christ.
Johnny Hunt
#69. Gratitude is one of the greatest Christian virtues; ingratitude, one of the most vicious sins.
Billy Graham
#70. A righteous God isn't bound by time. He has an eternity to make things right.
Shannon Dittemore
#71. What blame did Jesus have when He took the full blame for your sin?
Johnny Hunt
#72. 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.
Billy Graham
#73. Needless to say since Christ's expiation not one single Christian has been known to sin, or die.
Voltaire
#74. The greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible.
J. Vernon McGee
#75. In a relationship with God, our most secret places once thickly cloaked and meticulously hidden away now stand before us utterly and entirely exposed. And it may be that this dreaded fear is the single thing that keeps us an arm's length from God, and forever a single step away from His blessings.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#76. Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.
G.K. Chesterton
#78. The longer we remain without confessing, the worse it is for us, the more entangled we become in the bonds of sin, and therefore the more difficult it is to give an account.
John Of Kronstadt
#79. The Christian must abstain from sin. It is as simple and direct as that. You have no right to say, 'I am weak, I cannot, and temptation is very powerful.' The answer of the New Testament is, Stop doing it!
Martyn
#80. Who is far from love is a bad state, and to be pitied. He passes his days in a delirious dream, far from God, deprived of light, and he lives in darkness ... Whoever does not have the love of Christ is an enemy of Christ. He walks in darkness and is easily lead into any sin.
Ephrem The Syrian
#81. We ought to love the sinner and hate OUR sin.
Johnny Hunt
#82. Our humbling experience of sin is a mark of maturity. To be humbled by sin is to be marked by grace. Christian holiness is not the eradication of the sin nature, at least not on this side of eternity.
Tony Reinke
#83. Fear is really the sin of unbelief....I am talking about fear coming from believing what we see over what God tells us is true.
Jean A. Sturgill
#84. Silence, is the mother of prayer, a return from the captivity of sin, unconscious success in virtue, a continuous ascension to heaven.
St. John Climacus
#86. Before people deal with their own sin, they are always dealing with other people's sin.
Johnny Hunt
#87. The mind is often an area where "people play around with sin".
Joyce Meyer
#88. Every week I counsel young people from solid Christian homes who are undone by their sin. As parents, we are sometimes more invested in protecting our children from the sinful influences of this world than we are in preparing them for the deep sinfulness of their own hearts.
Barbara R. Duguid
#89. The vital Christian arouses opposition because he is a standing rebuke to the selfishness and sin of those around him.
John Hagee
#91. This is why the "apply some principles" approach to marriage improvement doesn't work. So long as we choose to turn a blind eye to how we are fallen as men or women, and to the unique style of relating that we have forged out of our sin and brokenness, we will continue to do damage to our marriages.
John Eldredge
#92. The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.
Thomas Carlyle
#93. The chief end of our life is to live in communion with God. To this end the Son of God became incarnate, in order to return us to this divine communion, which was lost by the fall into sin. Through Jesus Christ, the Son of God, we enter into communion with the Father and thus attain our purpose.
Theophan The Recluse
#94. Our Savior kneels down and gazes upon the darkest acts of our lives. But rather than recoil in horror, he reaches out in kindness and says, "I can clean that if you want." And from the basin of his grace, he scoops a palm full of mercy and washes away our sin.
Max Lucado
#96. The Christian cannot be indifferent to this world which God made and loves. Yet how can he be other than against it in its evil and sin and hopelessness? Both positions are necessary, and both at the same time, and without reserve.
Ronald Gregor Smith
#97. Neither parenting, Christian education, heritage, nor fine church involvement can alter anyone's essential sin nature. To lie, make self-centered choices, be destructive, or be deeply hurtful to oneself or others may be "out of character," but it is not outside of any human being's nature.
Rick Horne
#98. You can be genuinely forgiven by God and other people but still suffer the consequences from a particular sin in your life.
Johnny Hunt
#99. If a man says he is Christian, yet he has no problems knocking you up, having premarital sex or living in sin with you, then you have to ask yourself, What version of Christ does he believe in?
Shannon L. Alder
#100. When we realized we are wrong, we must confess sins. THEN return to seek the right ways of God.
Lailah Gifty Akita
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