Love The Sinner Quotes

#1. But C. S. Lewis made the point that we hate sin but love the sinner all the time - in our own lives. In other words, when we're judging ourselves, we always love the sinner despite our sin. We accept ourselves, even though we might not always like our behavior.

Lee Strobel

#2. Hate the sin, love the sinner.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'

George McGovern

#4. 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

#5. If we can't "love the sinner; hate the sin" then how can we relate to ourselves? Love who we are in Christ but still hate the sin remaining.

Timothy Keller

#6. We ought to love the sinner and hate OUR sin.

Johnny Hunt

#7. Love the sinner, hate the sin? How about: Love the sinner, hate your own sin! I don't have time to hate your sin. There are too many of you! Hating my sin is a full-time job. How about you hate your sin, I'll hate my sin and let's just love each other!

Mark Lowry

#8. I hate the sin, but I love the sinner.

Thomas Buchanan Read

#9. Love the sinner and hate the sin.

Augustine Of Hippo

#10. If I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation

Anne Bronte

#11. By welcoming a marginalized person whose body is wounded and by welcoming the sinner whose soul is wounded, we put our credibility as Christians on the line. Let us always remember the words of Saint John of the Cross: In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.

Pope Francis

#12. The death of Jesus was the opening and the emptying of the full heart of God; it was the outgushing of that ocean of infinite mercy that heaved and panted and longed for an outlet; it was God showing how he could love a poor, guilty sinner.

Octavius Winslow

#13. 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

#14. No person can be his own saviour ... An individual must come before God in penitence, confess his sin and obtain pardon from a merciful God who repudiates sin but shows covenant love to the sinner.

R.K. Harrison

#15. If we are really constrained by love, then we see every lost sinner we meet - including those who persecute us - as candidates for the new creation.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#16. Only love for Christ has the power to incapacitate the sturdy love for self that is the bane of every sinner, and only the grace of Christ has the power to produce that love.

Paul David Tripp

#17. No task will seem trying, and no sinner unattractive, to one whose heart has been thus possessed with the Savior's heart of love.

A.B. Simpson

#18. So it had something to do with the sinner, and something with the judge, and the fear of not being forgiven, and the relief of being loved again.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#19. The Lord God must be greatly feared! We can't stand his wrath.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. The brethren sometimes err in measuring the Divine love by the sinner's knowledge.

George Eliot

#21. God's love for the biggest sinner is greater than the love of the holiest man for God

Arsenie Boca

#22. Nothing but the infinite can ever satisfy me; I am such a great sinner that I must have infinite merit to wash my sin away; but we have had our sin removed, and found that there was merit to spare; we have had our hunger relieved at the feast of sacred love

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#23. 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

#24. We will remember the hurt, the injustice, and the trauma, but we can forgive the sinner.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#25. There is one thing God's love cannot do. It cannot forgive the unrepentant sinner.

Billy Graham

#26. The cross is the suffering love of God bearing the guilt of man's sin, which alone is able to melt the sinner's heart and bring him to repentance for salvation. "For he hath made him to be sin for us" [2 Corinthians 5:21 KJV].

Billy Graham

#27. I am, as ever, a poor sinner, a captive of eternal love, running by the side of His triumphal chariot, and I have no desire to be anything else as long as I live.

Nicolaus Zinzendorf

#28. We must repent while the chance exists, to confess our sins.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. The love of Christ reaches to the very depths of earthly misery and woe, or it would not meet the case of the veriest sinner. It also reaches to the throne of the eternal, or man could not he lifted from his degraded condition, and our necessities would not be met, our desires would be unsatisfied.

Ellen G. White

#30. no saint goes without sinning, and no sinner goes without having some saintly qualities. You can judge one for their mistakes, or you can love them for the flaws they try to correct.

C.M. Owens

#31. The man lived like a monk.
And made love like a sinner.

Cindy Gerard

#32. Love begets love; and thus the love of Christ displayed upon the cross woos and wins the sinner and binds him repenting to the cross, believing and adoring the matchless depths of a Saviour's love.

Ellen G. White

#33. This is glorious!' I cried, and then i looked at the sinner by my side. He sat with his head sunk on his breast and said 'Yes', without raising his eyes, as if afraid to see writ large on the clear sky of the offing the reproach of his romantic conscience.

Joseph Conrad

#34. All the hungers we have for love, for union, for happiness are given by God to lead us to him. The difference between a saint and the greatest sinner is where they go to satisfy that hunger.

Christopher West

#35. The biblical way to express God's love to a sinner is to show him how great his sin is (using the Law - see Romans 7:13; Galatians 3:24), and then give him the incredible grace of God in Christ.

Ray Comfort

#36. No sinner is irreparable or irredeemable. No sin is so great that the blood of Jesus cannot cover it. His love is so deep and wide that he can, in one moment of our faith, forgive our past, present, and future sins. Sin is simply not a problem for God.

Judah Smith

#37. Just because I had a good game doesn't change who I am,
my identity is in Christ and not in basketball, I love playing basketball and it's my job but at the same time I recognize that I'm a sinner and that's not gonna change regardless of how well I play on the court

Jeremy Lin

#38. Only the highest souls realize and accept that he who sins is far more to be pitied, aye, and loved, if love is what the highest human passion should be, than is the one against whom the sinner has sinned.

Louise Jordan Miln

#39. Nothing humbles and breaks the heart of a sinner like mercy and love. Souls that converse much with sin and wrath, may be much terrified; but souls that converse much with grace and mercy, will be much humbled.

Thomas Brooks

#40. Grace is the understanding that God is a better savior than you are a sinner.

Christopher Love

#41. Not only the guilt, but the love of sin, and its dominion, are taken away, subdued by grace, and cordially renounced by the believing pardoned sinner.

John Newton

#42. Because there is surely nothing in the world that can compare with happiness of forgiveness and of lifting up a guilty sinner in the arms of love.

Henrik Ibsen