Top 100 Quotes About Sinners
#1. Give your false prophet a message for me. Tell him Jesus befriended the whores and the thieves and the sinners. Tell him his Old Testament God is dead. God doesn't punish the wicked and save the righteous. God is love.
Jennifer Bosworth
#2. Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved.
St. Jerome
#3. Now ministers meet their people in order to enlighten and awaken the consciences of sinners:
Jonathan Edwards
#4. I did not love, yes, I hated the righteous God who punishes sinners.
Chris Tilling
#5. At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be published in heaven as a miracle that the Lord Jesus should set His heart's love upon people like us.
Alistair Begg
#6. Him and God are supposed to be at war with each other. But if God hates sin and Satan punishes the sinners, aren't they working the same side of the street? Aren't the judge and the executioner on the same team?
Joe Hill
#7. We poor sinners need to come back from our wanderings to seek pardon through the all-sufficient merits of our Redeemer. And we need to pray earnestly for the power of the Holy Spirit to give us a precious revival in our hearts and among the unconverted.
Robert E.Lee
#8. The love of our Lord Jesus Christ towards sinners is strikingly shown in His steady purpose of heart to die for them.
J.C. Ryle
#10. This is what all the work of grace aims at - an ever deeper knowledge of God, and an ever closer fellowship with him. Grace is God drawing us sinners closer and closer to himself.
J.I. Packer
#11. An important verse to memorize is: "God demonstrates His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us" (Romans 5:8).
Billy Graham
#12. I find that we are all such sinners that it is better to leave the judging to God.
Mahatma Gandhi
#13. We must trust in the mighty power of God's mercy. We are all sinners, but His grace transforms us and makes us new.
Pope Benedict XVI
#14. My friends, look to Christ, and not to yourselves. That is what is the matter with a great many sinners; instead of looking to Christ, they are looking at the bite of sin.
Dwight L. Moody
#15. Once in a stately passion I cried with desperate grief
'Oh Lord, my heart is black with guile, of sinners I am chief'
Then stooped my guardian angel and whispered from behind
'Vanity my little man, you're nothing of the kind'
James Thomson
#16. The faithful will be victorious over the sinners ...
Saddam Hussein
#17. Light a candle for the sinners set the world on fire
Marilyn Manson
#18. Marriage, and the process of coming to it, is not heaven! It is the bonding together of two needy sinners in order to make a partnership which is substantially greater than either of them alone.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#19. But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you ... . Do to others as you would have them do to you. If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.
Gary Chapman
#21. A human being is not someone who once in a while makes a mistake, and God is not someone who now and then forgives. No, human beings are sinners and God is love.
Philip Yancey
#22. We may justly condemn ourselves as the greatest sinners we know because we know more of the folly of our own heart than we do of other people's.
William Law
#23. To engage people in culture we must remember that holiness is separation from sin, not separation from sinners.
Ed Stetzer
#24. I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change, who can teach-or people like myself, if I may say so, who are not afraid to eat a lobster alone as they take on their shoulders the monumental weight of thirty years
James Baldwin
#25. Jesus first of all, loves His Father in heaven and would never compromise the message that sinners must be delivered or be damned. That is the reason Jesus came to earth-to save sinners.
Kirk Cameron
#26. The true Church is born from above. In it there are no sinners, and outside of it no saints. No man can put another's name on its member's roll; and no man can cross another's name off that roll.
Leonard Ravenhill
#27. All my Calvaries were rosy crucifixions, pseudo-tragedies to keep the fires of hell burning brightly for the real sinners who are in danger of being forgotten.
Henry Miller
#28. Christian growth doesn't happen by first behaving better, but by believing better
believi ng in bigger, deeper, brighter ways what Christ has already secured for sinners.
Tullian Tchividjian
#29. Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.
Elbert Hubbard
#30. How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people's sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
#31. The Church is a collection of poor sinners. The Catholic Church is a collection of 1.1 billion very poor sinners. That's a lot of original sins, and it is no wonder we have trouble.
Benedict Groeschel
#32. Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; 2)But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law he meditates day and night.
Anonymous
#33. The greatest work God ever performs was not the creation of the universe out of nothing, but is the new creation of saints out of sinners.
Steven J. Lawson
#34. In so far as I am Man I am the chief of creatures. In so far as I am a man I am the chief of sinners.
G.K. Chesterton
#35. The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, he said, but that's normal, because 'a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.
Pope Francis
#36. Praying the sinners prayer does not heal you. It saves you
Christine Caine
#37. Oh, God, give us a longing - not for the sin of this world to be judged - but for the sinners of this world to be forgiven.
Beth Moore
#38. Michael, Eleanor is without a doubt the most beautiful woman who has ever or will ever live. If you could take a nighttime thunderstorm and turn it into a woman, you would have a very good idea what she looks like. And a fairly good idea how she behaves as well.
Tiffany Reisz
#39. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive
Ronald Reagan
#40. God's love is his holiness reaching out to sinners; grace is but the price that his love pays to his holiness; the cross is but its victory over sin and death; and faith is but the way in which we bring our worship to him who is holy.
David F. Wells
#41. However, the power of God unto salvation is not our passion for God, but the passion he has exhibited toward us sinners by sending his own Son to redeem us.
Michael S. Horton
#42. Religion and the Church are not for perfect people who never sin (perfect people don't exist anyway), but they're for sinners who need the help that religion and the Church provide.
John Trigilio Jr.
#43. 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.
Billy Graham
#44. 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.
Billy Graham
#45. "Should I comfort those who do not mourn?" Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners who do not mourn over their crimes!
John William Fletcher
#46. We're all sinners, m'boy. Some of us just enjoy it more than others.
Emma Chase
#48. For the righteous, the revelation is a joyous event, the realization of a divine truth. But for the wicked, revelations can be far more terrifying, when dark secrets are exposed and sinners are punished for their trespasses.
Emily Thorne
#49. For God to forgive sinners without the full penalty being paid would contradict His justice and make Him our partner in evil. Christ fully paid that penalty for our sins
but the pardon must be willingly and gladly received. God will not force anyone into heaven.
Dave Hunt
#50. Jesus didn't shy away from sinners, so why should the church? And don't tell me the church welcomes sinners. I know better. It welcomes only sinners who repent and then never seriously need forgiveness again.
Robert Farrar Capon
#51. God did not intend that we should be cowards, or delinquents, or fools, or sinners or weaklings. He created us in his own image and commanded us to be men.
Sterling W. Sill
#52. A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#54. Lucifer, here brought so low that he resembles a giant centipede with countless arms and legs, chained on a fiery grill, exhaling and inhaling sinners.
Dana Facaros
#55. Love makes saints or sinners out of men.
J.D. Robb
#56. My faith reminds me that we all are sinners.
Barack Obama
#57. The moon climbed out of the ravine, blue, skinny, as if it had been fed on nothing but skimmed milk. It climbed out, and quickly slithered up and up along the finest thread-away from trouble, and on the very top it huddled, crouching on thin legs. ("The Protectress Of Sinners")
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#58. Christianity has not message for those who do not realize they are sinners.
C.S. Lewis
#59. Many new believers stay immature because they never progress beyond the revelation that they are sinners saved by grace.
Bill Johnson
#60. The single most loving act we can do is share the good news of Jesus Christ, that God saves sinners.
Matt Chandler
#61. And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones To execute judgment upon all, And to destroy all the ungodly: And to convict all flesh Of all the works of their ungodliness which they have ungodly committed, And of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.
Enoch
#62. Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe themMy wisdom belongs to the foolish, my power to the oppressed. Thus my wealth belongs to the poor, my righteousness to the sinners.
Martin Luther
#63. We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
Desmond Tutu
#65. We are all sinners who have been saved by Grace. We have not been saved from sinning, but we have been redeemed despite it".
~ R. Alan Woods [2012]
R. Alan Woods
#66. It is amazing that we hesitate to talk about the wrath of God, for fear of making sinners feel fearful. The fear they feel this side of the grave will be nothing compared to the fear they feel when they stand before Almighty God.
Ray Comfort
#67. I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature's loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.
John Muir
#68. Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#69. Many tax collectors and sinners came as guests to eat with Jesus
Anonymous
#70. God's loving plan to save sinners started with Jesus' death and resurrection. The influence God calls you to have for His Kingdom is very simple: just tell the world what He did for you.
Tony Dungy
#71. The freezing in hell that comes before the everlasting fire where sinners bubble and singe forever.
Toni Morrison
#72. I should willingly give every drop of my blood to please Him and to prevent sinners offending Him. I shall be satisfied only when I am a victim to make reparation for my innumerable sins and for the sins of all the world.
Gemma Galgani
#73. Life doesn't discriminate
Between the sinners and the saints
It takes and it takes and it takes
And we keep living anyway
We rise and we fall and we break
And we make our mistakes
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#75. Sinners are attractive because they are loved; they are not loved because they are attractive.
Martin Luther
#76. The paths of the LORD are true and right, and righteous people live by walking in them. But in those paths sinners stumble and fall.
Anonymous
#77. The Church used to absolve sinners; today it has the gall to absolve sins.
Nicolas Gomez Davila
#78. We're all sinners. Maybe what makes us different is that we're willing to change." "I
Dannika Dark
#79. All saints have past and all sinners have a future.
Anton Chekhov
#80. It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his Father's will-and it was his love for sinners like me.
D. A. Carson
#81. My future in-laws are out shopping and plotting my demise, I suppose.
Chelsea Ballinger
#82. Unsafe people will never identify with others as fellow sinners and strugglers, because they see themselves as somehow above all of that.
Henry Cloud
#83. We are partners with our children because we are just like them, dearly loved sinners.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#84. Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.
Aldous Huxley
#85. The chief end for which Christ lived and died: To provide eternal redemption for sinners.
J.C. Ryle
#86. Jesus said, 'Judge not, lest ye be judged.' Let's stop trying to choose the political leaders who we believe are the most godly because, in reality, only God knows people's hearts. You and I don't, and we are all sinners.
Jerry Falwell Jr.
#87. This is what the Church is all about. It is a redemptive fellowship of forgiven sinners who are in the slow, difficult process of being transformed into saints by the grace of God.
Stanley S. Harakas
#88. We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.
Jeff Miller
#89. There never has been a greater act of love than that Jesus laid down his life to save sinners (John 15:13; Rom. 5:6-8).
John Piper
#90. I do now most heartily desire to live but to exalt Jesus; to live preaching and to die preaching; to preach to perishing sinners till I drop down dead.
Henry Grattan Guinness
#91. Jesus is never upset at sinners; he is only upset with people who do not think they are sinners.
Richard Rohr
#92. No one in the history of the world has been more inclusive of repentant sinners than Jesus and no one has been more intolerant of sin.
Kevin DeYoung
#93. When you heart is ablaze with the love of God, when you love other people - especially the ripsnorting sinners - so much that you dare to tell them about Jesus with no apologies, then never fear, there will be results.
Catherine Marshall
#94. I want to find a way of speaking to fellow human beings that will be cool rather than heated, philosophical rather than polemical, that will bring enlightenment rather than seeking to divide us into the righteous and the sinners, the saved and the damned, the sheep and the goats.
J.M. Coetzee
#95. Church is a school for sinners, not a club of saints.
Lillian Daniel
#96. God rescues sinners, losers, victims - those who know they can't help themselves.
Preston Sprinkle
#98. There are no new sins - only new sinners. There are no new crimes - only new criminals, No new evils - only new evildoers. No new pleasures - only new pleasure seekers. We must distinguish between wholesome, God-ordained pleasure and sinful, worldly pleasure.
Billy Graham
#99. In the Mass the blood of Christ flows anew for sinners.
Saint Augustine
#100. The damned could be saved, he said, anytime. But they refused to give up their sins. Though they suffered endlessly, they would not give them up, even for salvation, perfect divine love.
Janet Fitch
