Top 100 Quotes About Sinning
#1. God is bigger than our sins. God wants you as you are - stumbling, sinning, confused.
Sierra Simone
#2. [T]his is the strongest encouragement to them in sinning; and we have need to lay all our batteries against this bulwark of presumption (361).
Richard Baxter
#3. Intercessory prayer for one who is sinning prevails. God says so! The will of the man prayed for does not come into question at all, he is connected with God by prayer, and prayer on the basis of the Redemption sets the connection working and God gives life.
Oswald Chambers
#4. We cannot tolerate one mistake from others, and yet God tolerates a planet covered with His own creation that live their entire lives sinning and denying Him, and yet continues to feed, clothe and protect them.
Yasmin Mogahed
#5. James said, "Anyone who knows the right thing to do, but does not do it, is sinning.
Rick Warren
#6. Somebody must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen upon me to do so.
Ida B. Wells
#7. The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.
John Owen
#8. He's a fascinating gentleman. Old-school. I tried to talk him into attending one of my services, but he said he wasn't finished sinning yet, and he'd let me know when he was.
Lisa Kleypas
#10. Hot chocolate should be sinful, and I don't believe in sinning in half measures.
Rachel Hawthorne
#11. Getting to a higher spiritual level is like increasing your credit score. You get a lot more points for sinning and repenting than if you have no credit history at all.
Lisa Kleypas
#12. There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.
Henry James
#13. While total avoidance of the wayward brother is not necessarily instructed, it is the case that contact with the sinning brother or sister should be confined to interaction that would bring to mind the guilty party's sin and constantly urge the impenitent party to return to the fold.
Kyle Butt
#14. But whether it was a proper shame for what she had done or a shocking shame for her compunctions in sinning, the Bishop was not permitted that afternoon to discover; because when she had got as far as that she was interrupted by being obliged to faint.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#15. Christ died not so that you could freely go on sinning, and therefore, continue dying; He died rather so that you could freely grow in obedience, and therefore, start living.
Criss Jami
#16. I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs them only one day; but me three, the first in sinning, the second in suffering, and the third in repenting.
Laurence Sterne
#17. Run for the hills. The Bible commands us to "flee immorality" (1 Corinthians 6:18). Only a fool says, "I can handle temptation without sinning." The wise man says, "I'm not going anywhere near it.
Stephen Kendrick
#18. 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
#19. It seems so much easier in these days to live morally than to live beautifully. Lots of us manage to exist for years without ever sinning against society, but we sin against loveliness every hour of the day.
Evelyn Underhill
#20. But when people try to avoid suffering by sinning, they end up sinning their way into suffering. And
Lecrae Moore
#21. Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.
Robert Southey
#22. What has to be forgiven is not just what we do but who we are, not just our sinning but our sinfulness, not just our choices but what we have chosen in place of God.
David F. Wells
#23. I am not accusing God of sinning; I am suggesting that he created sin
R.C. Sproul Jr.
#24. Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.
George Sand
#25. The woman's touch is witchcraft. It's a sin to give in, but seeing as sinning is my specialty, I let her dark magic consume me, because what do I have to lose?
J.M. Darhower
#26. The real 'have' and 'have nots' are between the people who were caught sinning verses the ones who got away with committing sin.
E. Leo Foster
#28. Whenever man touches God's delegated authority he touches God within that person; sinning against delegated authority is sinning against God.
Watchman Nee
#29. Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction. Better, burn for Christ, than turn from Christ.
Charles Spurgeon
#30. Christ!" he yells, sinning,
Scary
#31. Transgressive to me means breaking the rules and sinning. I don't see myself as breaking the rules and sinning. I'm really interested in what it means to be female.
Susanna Moore
#32. Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.
Marie De France
#33. Nature, as we know her, is no saint ... She comes eating and drinking and sinning.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#34. I don't know where hell is ... another dimension, perhaps, or another plane of reality. As for getting there ... it's a choice between sinning and being tricked by demons It's a plane of evil ... despair ... and magic of the foulest kind.
Alan Grant
#35. Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place.
Kevin DeYoung
#36. The English judged a person so that they'd be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a person so that they'd be justified in welcoming her back. Where I'm from, if someone is accused of sinning, it's not so that others can place blame. It's so that the person can make amends and move on.
Jodi Picoult
#37. Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.
Martin Luther
#38. Men, if we are not praying in detail for our wives and children, we are sinning.
R. Kent Hughes
#39. Complaining about the weather seems to be a favorite American pastime. Sadly, we Christians often get caught up in this ungodly habit in our society. But when we complain about the weather, we are actually complaining against God who sent us our weather. We are, in fact, sinning against God.
Jerry Bridges
#40. No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.
Daniel Defoe
#41. If turning from your sins means to stop sinning, then people can only be saved if they stop sinning. And it is unlikely that anyone has ever been saved, since we don't know anyone who has ever stopped sinning.
Curtis Hutson
#42. When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.
Timothy Keller
#43. I want no Christmas without a burden for lost souls, a message for sinners, a heart to bring in the lost sheep so dear to the Shepherd, the sinning souls for whom Christ died.
John R. Rice
#44. It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it ... and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so.
Saint Augustine
#45. Men are willing to admit that they are sinners, but not that they are sinning.
Ivan Panin
#46. Redemption is for the weak. The strong keep sinning
Marvin Amazon
#47. God calls himself "Baseer" [Observant], so that the knowledge that He is watching you may keep you from sinning.
Rumi
#48. Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#50. No one born of God makes a practice of sinning ... and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God" (cf. 5:18). On the surface, these verses appear to say that true Christians should not sin at all.
Anonymous
#51. When you live in holiness, when you really try to stop sinning, you become braver. You become more courageous, you become a man of your word. You become a man of conviction that you're not willing to sell out and you're really a true knight in shining armour.
Jim Caviezel
#52. Verily if with mine own eyes I had seen a priest of God, or any of those who wear the monastic garb, sinning, I would spread my cloak and hide him, that he might not be seen of any.
John Of Salisbury
#53. If you believe [in God], your belief will kill your sinning, or else your sinning will kill your believing!
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#55. Happiness is attained by three things: being patient when tested, being thankful when receiving a blessing, and being repentant upon sinning.
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
#56. More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#57. My Paradise: With Christ. Not sinning. No pain. New earth. Precious in that order.
John Piper
#58. It is impossible to get anywhere without sinning against reason.
Albert Einstein
#59. It is hard to carry a full cup without spilling, and a full estate without sinning.
Thomas Watson
#60. Every ransomed man owes his salvation to the fact that during his days of sinning, God kept the door of mercy open.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#61. 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
#62. Immorality is the word we use to describe people that are not sinning the same way we are.
Shannon L. Alder
#63. The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.
Salvador De Madariaga
#65. In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#67. Tears only dry up as a result of hardness of the heart, and the hearts only harden as a result of frequent sinning.
Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
#69. You want sins, Aunt? I'll show you sinning. I'll make the devil weep, I'll sin so bad.
Heidi Cullinan
#70. The world had a pleasant beginning
Until Adam spoiled it by sinning;
We hope that the story
Will end in God's glory,
But so far the other side's winning.
Joseph Twadell Shipley
#72. Someone must show that the Afro-American race is more sinned against than sinning, and it seems to have fallen to me to do so. The awful death roll called every week is appalling, not only because of the lives taken, the cruelty and outrage to the victims, but because of the prejudice it fosters.
William Wells Brown
#73. How much sinning could you actually have done at a second-grade level?
Bruce Springsteen
#74. (1.) To repent without despairing; (2.) To believe without being presumptuous; (3.) To rejoice without falling into levity; (4.) To be angry without sinning.
J.C. Ryle
#75. I bet I've led a more virtuous life than you."
"First, darlin', that's not saying much. Second, getting to a higher spiritual level is like increasing your credit score. You get a lot more points for sinning and repenting than if you have no credit history at all."
-Ella & Jack
Lisa Kleypas
#77. 18We know that n everyone who has been born of God does not keep on sinning, but o he who was born of God p protects him, and the evil one does not touch him.
Anonymous
#78. Any concept of grace that makes us feel more comfortable sinning is not biblical grace. God's grace never encourages us to live in sin, on the contrary, it empowers us to say no to sin and yes to truth.
Randy Alcorn
#79. As we see the beauty of God and feel His weightiness in our hearts, our hearts begin to desire Him more than we desire sin. Before the Bible says, "Stop sinning," it says, "Behold your God.
J.D. Greear
#80. Sinners judging sinners for sinning differently.
Sui Ishida
#81. I remember you from the woods. Where's your sister?"
"She's busy. Sinning.
Dia Reeves
#82. Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins, doesn't it? We can't be sinning in so many different ways if we are being quiet before God. Silence nourishes patience, charity, discretion.
Elisabeth Elliot
#83. Everyone is sinning, so it's no longer rebellious to sin. You're just a conformist if you're drunk; and naked; driving around in a loud motorcycle; smoking cigarrettes; breaking commandments; getting pregnant out of wedlock. Everyone's done that. That's so tired!
Mark Driscoll
#84. Life without sinning was like food without salt, pure but tasteless.
Sharon Kay Penman
#86. The damned are in the abyss of Hell, as within a woeful city, where they suffer unspeakable torments, in all their senses and members, because as they have employed all their senses and their members in sinning, so shall they suffer in each of them the punishment due to sin.
Saint Francis De Sales
#87. Foretold through memories I remember what dangers I was warned of if lived by ways of sinning. That by living a fruitful life with an open mind to love all people would bring me to a place of peaceful tranquility. I wonder if these are all lies. All of them.
Nicholas A. McGirr
#88. He used to say that sinning was not about the bad things you'd done and regretted but about the failure to do what you should have done. Especially for others.' She
Marguerite Poland
#90. The world, more suffering than sinning, turns toward Pope Francis as in a conversation people turn to the person who is making sense of things.
Eugene Kennedy
#91. I had three long conversations with Marusya over a cup of coffee. She told me her whole rather silly story. To some degree we became friends. I like people like that
doomed, dying, helpless, and brazen. I always say, if you're in trouble, you're not sinning.
Sergei Dovlatov
#92. God offers his protection to sinners," Ceolnoth said unctuously. "Especially to sinners," Ceolberht said. "I'll remember that," I said, "when I've finished sinning.
Bernard Cornwell
#93. Out of such prison, though Spirits of purest light, Purest at first, now gross by sinning grown.
John Milton
#94. Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
Francis Atterbury
#95. Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
J.C. Ryle
#96. Sir 19:25 And if he be hindered from sinning for want of power, if he shall find opportunity to do evil, he will do it.
Various
#97. Sin is often, if not always, the perversion of something good. In the midst of all our sinning, though, God is willing to forgive us, change us,
and give us a new power to overcome that sin.
Billy Graham
#98. You have to help good people see how they have let their institutions do their sinning for them. All around the world there are those who long to see your human goodness translated into a different, more compassionate way of relating with the rest of this bleeding planet.
Peter Storey
#99. In this life ain't no happy endings;
Only pure beginnings followed by years of sinning and fake repentance.
J. Cole
#100. Now the fact that they will be unable to delight in sin does not entail that they will have no free will. In fact, the will will be the freer in that it is freed from a delight in sin and immovably fixed in a delight in not sinning. The
Augustine Of Hippo
