Top 100 Quotes About Sinners
#1. The most extravagant sinners of Jesus's day receive His most compassionate welcome. Grace is a divine vulgarity that stands caution on its head. It refuses to play it safe and lay it up. Grace is recklessly generous, uncomfortably promiscuous.
Preston Sprinkle
#2. To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction.
Charles Taze Russell
#3. He called himself "chief among sinners" yet proclaimed himself made new in Christ.
Liz Curtis Higgs
#4. For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force.
John Chrysostom
#5. Early in the ministry of the apostle Paul, he called himself the least of the apostles. Later on he said he was the least of all Christians. Then he said he was the chief of sinners. The older he got, the more he saw of God, the lower he became in his own estimation.
Tommy Nelson
#6. We are a church of sinners but we must not be afraid of holiness. Do not be afraid to aim for holiness and turn yourselves over to the love of God. Holiness does not mean performing extraordinary things but carrying out daily things in an extraordinary way that is with love, joy and faith.
Pope Francis
#7. But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#8. We hear many offers from the world around us; but let us take up God's offer instead: his is a caress of love. For God, we are not numbers, we are important, indeed we are the most important thing to him; even if we are sinners, we are what is closest to his heart.
Pope Francis
#9. Now it is a pleasant pastime, a joy and pleasure, to read the Bible and religious books, tracts, and papers, whereby I can learn more of the beauties of a life of salvation. May God help sinners everywhere to seek him while he may be found.
E.E. Byrum
#10. Lord, I am in this world to show Your mercy to others ... For my part I will glorify You by making known how good You are to sinners, that Your mercy is boundless.
Claude De La Colombiere
#12. I don't kiss losers and I don't kiss winners, and I don't fight for honor 'cause we all are born sinners
Regina Spektor
#13. We are all sinners. But may the Lord not let us be hypocrites. Hypocrites don't know the meaning of forgiveness, joy and the love of God.
Pope Francis
#14. I would to God that saints would cling to Christ half as earnestly as sinners cling to the devil. If we were as willing to suffer for God as some are to suffer for their lusts, what perseverance and zeal would be seen on all sides!
Charles Spurgeon
#15. Saints and Sinners may be separated by their actions, but they are united by their reaction to passion.
Gaiven Clairmont
#16. The deeper irony is that the evidence of sin that are always found in and around the body of Christ may become indirect intimations of its holiness. It could not be a holy church if it had clean hands, as if severed from its task of saving sinners and healing human hurt.
Thomas C. Oden
#17. Christians affirm the communion of saints in the Nicene Creed, but I think there should be an equal belief in the "communion of sinners.
Richard Rohr
#18. We weren't going to last, not as a couple. Not as lovers or sinners. She loved me. I owned her.
C.D. Reiss
#19. I will be angry until my dying day, Mr Catchpool. Greater sinners persecuting lesser sinners in the name of morality - that's something worth raging about.
Sophie Hannah
#20. All men are sinners, Eleanor. The greater the man, the greater the sins.
Helena P. Schrader
#21. The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.
J.I. Packer
#22. I think one of the reasons our court system wants to remove The 10 Commandments is because The 10 Commandments reminds us we are sinners.
Johnny Hunt
#23. In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I've no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I'm willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.
Louisa May Alcott
#24. The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners.
Timothy Keller
#25. God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously ... Do not for a moment imagine that this life is the abiding place of justice; sin must be committed.
Martin Luther
#26. A man obtains the fear of God if he has the remembrance of his unavoidable death and of the eternal torments that await sinners; If he tests himself every evening as to how he has spent the day, and every morning as to how he has spent the night, and if is not sharp in his relations with others.
Dorotheus Of Gaza
#27. This is the mystery of the riches of divine grace for sinners; for by a wonderful exchange our sins are now not ours but Christ's, and Christ's righteousness is not Christ's but ours.
Martin Luther
#28. The problem is not in being sinners, the problem is when we don't let ourselves be transformed in love by the encounter with Christ.
Pope Francis
#29. The wisdom of God devised a way for the love of God to deliver sinners from the wrath of God while not compromising the righteousness of God.
John Piper
#30. For my heart is always with Him, day and night it thinks unceasingly of its heavenly and divine Friend, to whom it wants to prove its affection. Also within it arises this desire: not to die, but to suffer long, to suffer for God, to give Him its life while praying for poor sinners.
Elizabeth Of The Trinity
#31. Jesus was a master of grace: he attracted sinners and moral outcasts even as he offended the religious and responsible people of his day.
Philip Yancey
#33. Every aspect of the way God views and saves sinners is designed to undermine racism and lead to a reconciled and redeemed humanity from every people group in the world.
John Piper
#34. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us (Rom. 5:8).
Charles F. Stanley
#35. Converted sinners ought frequently to reflect upon the sinfulness and misery of the state they were in by nature.
Matthew Henry
#36. How else can we become reconciled, except one individual at a time? This Jesus you seek did not come to address nations. He washed the wounds of lepers. He dined with sinners. He healed all who came to him. One person at a time.
Janette Oke
#37. Let it be ours to be self-reliant amidst hosts of the vacillating - real in a generation of triflers - true amongst a multitude of shams; when tempted to swerve from principle, sturdy as an oak in its maintenance; when solicited by the enticement of sinners, firm as a rock in our denial.
William Morley Punshon
#38. Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners" (1 Timothy 1.15). The Lord was not a political hero who had risen from among men. He had descended from heaven where he had sat at the right hand of the Father. Thank God Jesus came!
Lee Roy Martin
#39. Luck, though, as Billy had said it so many times, was like lightning
it struck sinners and saints in equal measure, and it did to on its time-table, not yours.
Barry Lyga
#40. The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.
Oscar Wilde
#41. No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.
Matthew Henry
#42. When we commit to a spouse for life, we are agreeing to enter a sacred union between two sinners and Jesus, and when you've got two sinners walking together over the years, you will see just how sinful he or she - and you - can be.
Matt Chandler
#43. Doesn't it honor Him more when His children no longer see themselves only as sinners saved by grace, but now as heirs of God? Isn't it a greater form of humility to believe Him when He says we are precious in His sight when we don't feel very precious?
Bill Johnson
#44. May your glass always be full, may there always be a roof over your head, and may you dirty sinners be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows you're dead.
Jason Jack Miller
#45. When sinners judge, God takes the stand.
Toba Beta
#46. We are great sinners; Jesus is a greater Savior!
Steve Camp
#47. I felt that this grey, monstrous London of ours, with its myriads of people, its sordid sinners and its splendid sins
Oscar Wilde
#48. If anyone had a right to lecture people about their sin, it was the sinless son of God. If even he could meet sinners as equals, how much more should we Christians
all sinners ourselves
treat as equals the people we encounter in our lives?
Justin Lee
#49. God is not hostile to sinners, but only to unbelievers.
Martin Luther
#50. Death doesn't discriminate between the sinners and the saints, it takes and it takes and it takes, and we keep living anyway....
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#51. One-third of Matthew ... one-third of Mark ... one-fourth of Luke, and one-half of John are given to [Christ's] death ... Jesus came for the express purpose of dying for sinners. When He left heaven, He knew He was going to the cross.
Billy Graham
#52. 17 Let not your heart t envy sinners, but continue in u the fear of the LORD all the day.
Anonymous
#53. If you do not have the power to compete with the best believers in good deeds, then compete with the sinners in asking for Allah's forgiveness.
Ibn Rajab
#54. What a miracle that God would take sinners such as ourselves and give us new hearts with a disposition to love him and trust him in the midst of our circumstances.
Gloria Furman
#55. As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.
Charles Caleb Colton
#56. Sinners judging sinners for sinning differently.
Sui Ishida
#57. Hail Mary full of Grace the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.' Then he added, 'Blessed Virgin, pray for the death of this fish wonderful though he is.
Ernest Hemingway,
#58. Sinners live in a sort of hell, and saints imagine themselves in a sort of heaven. And the sage? - for him it is moksha, for him it is the absolute freedom. He is freed from all duality. The secret key, and the only key, is awareness.
Rajneesh
#59. Be cold, sober, wise, circumspect. Keep yourself low by the ground avoiding high questions. Expound the Law truly and open the veil of Moses to condemn all flesh and prove all men sinners, and set at broach the mercy of our Lord Jesus, and let wounded consciences drink of Him.
William Tyndale
#60. There are a lot of Christians who are halfway fellows. They stand in the door, holding on to the Church with one hand while they play with the toys of the world with the other. They are in the doorway and we can't bring sinners in.
Mordecai Ham
#61. We may believe in the deity and the salvation of Christ, and acknowledge ourselves to be sinners in need of his salvation; but this does not make us Christians. We have to make a personal response to Jesus Chris, committing ourselves unreservedly to him as our Savior and Lord.
John R.W. Stott
#62. Sinners, hear and consider, if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery.
Richard Baxter
#63. At the cross of Christ, God shows the full expression of both his wrath and his love, as Jesus is stricken, smitten, afflicted, wounded, crushed, and chastised for the sake of sinners.
David Platt
#64. Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin?
R.C. Sproul
#65. Grace means primarily the free, forgiving love of God in Christ to sinners and the operation of that love in the lives of Christians.
A.M. Hunter
#66. Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners - of whom I am the worst.
Anonymous
#67. The deaf who deny they are deaf will never hear; the sinners who deny there is sin deny thereby the remedy of sin, and thus cut themselves off forever from Him Who came to redeem.
Fulton J. Sheen
#68. The Holy Spirit not only convicts of sin but also convinces men that Jesus is the righteousness of God. He shows sinners that Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.
Billy Graham
#69. A sharp reproof sometimes is a precious pearl, and a sweet balm. The wounds of secure sinners will not be healed with sweet words.
Richard Sibbes
#70. I think you want very much to make this black and white
to make us all out to be sinners or saints. But it's just not that simple. I think what you need to accept is that, just maybe, we're all something else. Maybe we're all something in between.
Marie Sexton
#71. Grace does not make sin safe. Grace does make sinners safe.
Matt Chandler
#72. The Christian church is a society of sinners. It is the only society in the world membership in which is based upon the single qualification that the candidate shall be unworthy of membership.
Charles Clayton Morrison
#73. The end for which Christ lives, and for which He has left His church in the world, is the salvation of sinners.
Charles Grandison Finney
#74. There was no one innocent amongst us, I realized then. We were all sinners, one way or the other. We hurt with our hands, with our mouths, or with our minds. But what matters was the 'why'.
~Eyes of a Goddess
Ukamaka Olisakwe
#75. Jesus was a friend and not a judge. He loved the sinners as much as He loved the little ones. That man was love and not an act
Christofer Drew
#76. I feel like that's something the church has done really badly is actually confessing. We are sinners. We are broken, shattered people that do things selfishly, out of arrogance, pride, lust, greed. And all have fallen short. That doesn't mean some we're definitely a part of that inclusive all.
Jon Foreman
#77. Blessed is the man [1] who a walks not in b the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in c the way of sinners, nor d sits in e the seat of f scoffers; 2 but his g delight is in the law [2] of the LORD, and on his h law he meditates day and night.
Anonymous
#78. Regardless of the official theology held on paper, moralistic preaching (the bane of conservatives and liberals alike) assumes that we are not really helpless sinners who need to be rescued but decent folks who need good examples, exhortations, and instructions.
Michael S. Horton
#79. To the extent that we ignore (or run from) our own sinfulness, we will be unable to care for other sinners. We will be unable to extend forgiveness to others until we are honest about the extent to which we are forgiven.
Tullian Tchividjian
#80. God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.
Soren Kierkegaard
#81. May we always see ourselves accurately as helpless sinners in need of grace, so that we never move beyond the cross or consider ourselves better than our worst enemies.
Barbara R. Duguid
#82. Men are taught from childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are all glorious children of immortality, even those who are the weakest in manifestation.
Swami Vivekananda
#83. The only righteous thing on the face of the earth is death. No one has ever bribed their way out of that. The earth takes us all: the good, the evil and the sinners. And that's all the justice you'll find in this world.
Svetlana Alexievich
#84. If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
Jesus Christ
#85. Man's civility is lagging behind his technological ability. It could mean disaster and catastrophe for the whole world. We're all sinners, everyone of us, and a radical change is needed for all of us.
Billy Graham
#86. That the Father and Son would love sinners that much is beyond our comprehension
but it ought to awaken a response of love and gratitude within our hearts that will change our lives forever!
Dave Hunt
#87. Christians have done far more damage to the church of Jesus Christ than any sinners outside the church could inflict.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#88. Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord
preferred to live with whores
& sinners, seeing
I go in for that myself.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#89. It is staggering that God should love sinners, yet it is true.
J.I. Packer
#90. It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.
Hans Jonas
#91. We are all sinners. We are called to a conversion of heart
Pope Francis
#92. The cross was a glorious outworking of the grace of God, by which the Father commissioned the Son to make full satisfaction so that sinners might be saved with no sacrifice of God's justice.
R.C. Sproul
#93. I think we should love sinners, and welcome them, and open our arms to them, and then we don't totally accept them into our fellowship as believers and as Christians until they have repented their sins and changed their way of living.
Billy Graham
#94. Grace does not make sin safe. But grace does make sinners safe.
Matt Chandler
#96. So completely was Jesus bent upon saving sinners by the sacrifice of Himself, He created the tree upon which He was to die, and nurtured from infancy the men who were to nail Him to the accursed wood.
Octavius Winslow
#97. Ministers often preach about the Gospel instead of preaching the Gospel. They often preach about sinners instead of preaching to them.
Charles Grandison Finney
#98. What people fail to understand coughing up sin and confessing it and giving it to the only one that can remove it, for crying out loud, we're all sinners.
Phil Robertson
#99. The love of Christ to sinners is the very essence and marrow of the Gospel.
J.C. Ryle
#100. Walking does good to the fat and giving alms does good to the sinners; these both make one feel lighter!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
