Sin Of Quotes

#1. You can be courageous in admitting your sin precisely because God is richly abundant in his mercy. He comes to you in mercy not because you are good but because you are a sinner, and he knows that because of this condition, you are unable to help yourself.

Paul David Tripp

#2. Sin, on the contrary, is the pursuit of legitimate self-regarding interests at the expense of the neighbor, by spending our time and talents figuring out ways of exploiting them.

Frederick Nymeyer

#3. Nobody who understands the free grace of God takes sin lightly.

Timothy Keller

#4. The real sin lay in thinking that any power to help and transform came from me. Of course it was not my wholeness, but Christ's that made the difference.

Corrie Ten Boom

#5. i don't take breaks. you're either with me or you lose me to someone better than you. i refuse to give you a pass to freely fuck someone else then return to me when you're tired of being fucked over..

R H Sin

#6. Unfortunately, the simplest things - such as thinking for myself, creating my own reality and being whatever the hell I want to be each day of my life - are a sin. To be a good Christian basically means to give up the reigns of your life and let some unseen force do it for you.

Brandon Boyd

#7. There was no point in waiting until the next world. You had to do everything now, every kind of sin.

Anne Rice

#8. Never before Raphael had blue meant the color of sin, of seduction. Of pain.

Nalini Singh

#9. The vital Christian arouses opposition because he is a standing rebuke to the selfishness and sin of those around him.

John Hagee

#10. Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

Saint Augustine

#11. [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

#12. Pius XII, more than half a century ago, said that the tragedy of our age was that it had lost its sense of sin, the awareness of sin. Today we add further to the tragedy by considering our illness, our sins, to be incurable, things that cannot be healed or forgiven. We

Pope Francis

#13. God help us to be grateful for our blessings, never to be guilty of the sin of ingratitude, and to instill this same gratitude into the lives of our children.

Ezra Taft Benson

#14. To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.

George A. Smith

#15. Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.

J.C. Ryle

#16. 'Sin Nombre' was almost like the adolescent version of 'Jane Eyre.' 'Jane Eyre' sort of picks up where 'Sin Nombre' ends. It's about this girl who starts off on her own at her lowest point of despair, and she figures out how she got there.

Cary Fukunaga

#17. Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality

Khalil Gibran

#18. Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved.

St. Jerome

#19. In conclusion it may be said that sin may be defined as lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state

Louis Berkhof

#20. If the Church has no the authority to tell its members that they may not engage in homosexual practices, then it has no authority at all. And if we accept the argument of the hypocrites of homosexuality that their sin is not a sin, we have destroyed ourselves.

Orson Scott Card

#21. There has to be insight born of hindsight. Otherwise, you're only confessing your sins and asking the reader to forgive you. And that is a complete misuse of the writer's power and unfair to the reader.

Meghan Daum

#22. For unbelievers, at the final judgment, there will not be one drop of mercy, only perfect justice-so much sin, so much wrath.

Steven J. Lawson

#23. When the parish priest rebuked him for his celibacy, saying it would lead him into debaucheryand sin, hesaid that a man who had to be muzzled bya wife as a protection against debauchery was not worthy of the joy of innocence. After that people began to treat him with priestly respect.

Liam O'Flaherty

#24. Chosen to hold; and therefore they are of our own ordering; and therefore there is perfect justice in the universe. No suffering for another man's original sin, but the reaping of a harvest that we ourselves have sown. We have free will, but our free will lies in our choice of thought.

Emmet Fox

#25. It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

Jose Marti

#26. Some men drink the blood of other men, all I drink is wine.

Mohsin Hamid

#27. Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate,
Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving,

William Shakespeare

#28. Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#29. Left to itself, a heart will run riot with sin. But if a heart responds to the ministry of the Word, there can be fruit and beauty.

Warren W. Wiersbe

#30. We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.

H. Rider Haggard

#31. Native Americans are not and must not be props in a sort of theme park of the past, where we go to have a good time and see exotic cultures. "What we have done to the peoples who were living in North America" is, according to anthropologist Sol Tax, "our Original Sin.

James W. Loewen

#32. 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

#33. At the cross a world of sin is absorbed by the love of God and recycled into grace and mercy. This is what the cross is about! This is what Christianity reveals. Christianity

Brian Zahnd

#34. Perverted quality; Moral perversion; The innate corruption of human nature due to original sin; Both the elect and the non-elect came into the world in a state of total d. and alienation from God, and can, of themselves do nothing but sin. J.H. Blunt.

Arundhati Roy

#35. When you need to set boundaries . . . They are the kind [of people] who work their way into people's homes and win the confidence of vulnerable women who are burdened with the guilt of sin and controlled by various desires. 2 TIMOTHY 3:6

Beth Moore

#36. Earth fell," said the Surgeon, "because the Will required us to atone for the sin our ancestors committed when they treated your ancestors like beasts. The quality of our poetry had nothing to do with it.

Robert Silverberg

#37. The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one.

Richard Chenevix Trench

#38. If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.

Margaret Fuller

#39. Science ha seradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but talk of pestilence as the wages of sin.

Richard Dawkins

#40. There's this really good line in 'Women in Love' where Ursula says, 'I always thought it was a sin to be unhappy.' And actually I think that's very common, it's what a lot of people feel - that you have an obligation to life to be happy if you can.

Rachel Cusk

#41. The greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible.

J. Vernon McGee

#42. He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.

John Calvin

#43. First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it.

Thomas Watson

#44. If God were to eradicate all evil from this planet, He would have to eradicate all evil men. Who would be exempt? "For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" [Romans 3:23 NIV].
God would rather transform the evil man than eradicate him.

Billy Graham

#45. Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason.

Fulton J. Sheen

#46. It's a big mistake to think that your own cause, or your own country, or your own side has God in its corner. For one thing, it commits the sin of pride.

Christopher Hitchens

#47. When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

Charles Stanley

#48. If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God.

Catherine Booth

#49. People used to blush when they were ashamed. Now they are ashamed if they blush. Modesty has disappeared and a brazen generation with no fear of God before its eyes mocks at sin. We are so fond of being called tolerant and broadminded that we wink at sin when we ought to weep.

Vance Havner

#50. We object not to the narration of the deeds of our unregenerate condition, but to the mode in which it is too often done. Let sin have its monument, but let it be a heap of stones cast by the hands of execration - not a mausoleum erected by the hands of affection.

Charles Spurgeon

#51. The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.

Martin Luther

#52. Teach your children how to behave with animals. Adopt a pet. Don't go buy one. Please. That's a sin. Let's get these puppy mills out of business.

Shelley Morrison

#53. Yeah, Vegas is the number one place to go. Vegas is Sin City. It really gives you a feeling of looseness and anything can go.

James Belushi

#54. Fatal human malice is the staple of narrators, original sin the mother-fluid of historians. But it is a risky enterprise to have to write of virtue.

Thomas Keneally

#55. The cross shows the seriousness of our sin
but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.

Billy Graham

#56. Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#57. The possession of wealth leads almost inevitably to its abuse. It is the chief, if not the only, cause of evils which desolate this world below. The thirst for gold is responsible for the most regrettable lapses into sin.

Jules Verne

#58. We must not forget that the gospel of Christ is holy. It never excuses sin: it pardons it, but only through an atonement. If

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#59. The Church received from the apostles the tradition of giving baptism even to infants. The apostles, to whom were committed the secrets of the divine sacraments, knew there are in everyone innate strains of [original] sin, which must be washed away through water and the Spirit

Origen

#60. You do not base your belief that Jesus is the Saviour from sin upon the fact that somebody is saved, or says he is saved; but you base it upon the Word of the living God; and there you stand.

John Alexander Dowie

#61. 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

#62. The harsh reality is that my flesh must die not so much because of what it does, but because of what it is.

Kelly Minter

#63. 'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in the other. If a man lies under oath or procures the lie of another under oath, if he perjures himself or suborns perjury, he is guilty under the statute law.

Theodore Roosevelt

#64. The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

Paula Poundstone

#65. The work of redemption was accomplished by Christ in His death on the cross and has in view the payment of the price demanded by a holy God for the deliverance of the believer from the bondage and burden of sin. Inredemption the sinner is set free from his condemnation and slavery to sin.

John F. Walvoord

#66. He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.

Augustine Of Hippo

#67. The author says people are guilty of wrecking the present because the future was bound to be a wreck.

T.H. White

#68. The Rich man was let alone in his sin suffered to go on without molestation. He fared sumptuously every day, slept secure and expected no disturbance. And the first of his awaking out of his security was when he lifted up his eyes that were now opened being in torments.

Jonathan Edwards

#69. But have you never noticed that when one has been trying to do something really good one is much nearer committing some special sin than when one keeps on in the selfish, matter-of-fact prudence of minding one's own business, and that alone?

Geraldine Jewsbury

#70. Yet the penalty for sin is not determined by our measure of it. Instead, the penalty for sin is determined by the magnitude of the one sinned against.

David Platt

#71. The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.

Iris Murdoch

#72. The fear of hell, the punishment of sin, how the modern parent revolts from such teaching. Yet I will assert that far from doing us children harm, it was a sure foundation to the world of our confidence, a master girder in our palace of delight.

Joyce Cary

#73. Sorrow is held the eldest child of sin.

John Webster

#74. Simon Gathercole argues that both Paul and the Gospel writers considered the good news to have three basic elements: the identity of Jesus as Son of God and Messiah, the death of Jesus for sin and justification, and the establishment of the reign of God and the new creation.12

Timothy Keller

#75. After all, that's all a man really needs: a big city full of sin and sleaze, and a chance.

Mark Lawrence

#76. The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation

Martin Luther

#77. The Bible teaches that Satan is the author of sin. Sin is the reason we have afflictions, including death. All of our problems and our suffering are a result of man's rebellion
against God. But God has provided a rescue in His Son.

Billy Graham

#78. How is it that there are not many who are led by sermons to forsake open sin? Do you know what I think? That is because preachers have too much worldly wisdom.

Teresa Of Avila

#79. When things are not going right, there are satanic forces in
operation. What is my solution? To rebuke the condition of sin, death, disease, or
whatever it is. I can pray in the Holy Ghost, and that prayer is effectual to bring
down every stronghold of the enemy.

Smith Wigglesworth

#80. Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.

John Dryden

#81. Forgiveness of sins is great, but I'd rather have the ability to quit doing the things I keep needing forgiveness for.

D.R. Silva

#82. In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

#83. In my heart I do have a fear...I long to grow more godly with each passing day. Call it "the fear of the Lord," being in awe of Him and scared to death of any sin that would mar my life.

Anne Ortlund

#84. Sin is followed by a fear of being caught.

Paulo Coelho

#85. The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

Euripides

#86. The One who knows the fullness of my sin loves me as my Father right now.

R.C. Sproul Jr.

#87. Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent sin. The will is the source of action.

John Henry Newman

#88. Your stamina is impressive," he commented. There was a beat of silence and Sin said with a scoff, "I could say something, but I'll refrain.

Santino Hassell

#89. Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.

Oswald Chambers

#90. 'What is the Unpardonable Sin' asked the lime-burner 'It is a sin that grew within my own breast', replied Ethan Brand 'The sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God'.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#91. Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#92. The Spirit always communicates that He's for you when He convicts you of your sin.

R.C. Sproul

#93. Mercy will always be greater than any sin, no one can put a limit on the love of the all-forgiving God. Just

Pope Francis

#94. The idea of caring is that someone is making money faster [than you are] is one of the deadly sins. Envy is a really stupid sin because it's the only one you could never possibly have any fun at. There's a lot of pain and no fun. Why would you want to get on that trolley?

Charlie Munger

#95. How could you set yourself up as the most powerful institution on earth? You first find out what every man feels at least once a day, establish that as a sin, and set yourself up as the only institution capable of pardoning that sin.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#96. What perversity of mind made suffering a virtue and pleasure a sin?

Marty Rubin

#97. Throughout your life there may be times when you have gone places you never should have gone and done things you never should have done. If you will turn away from sin, you will be able one day to know the peace that comes from following the pathway of complete repentance.

Boyd K. Packer

#98. It cannot be said too often that in the New Testament, the opposite of sin is not virtue, it is faith.

Robert Farrar Capon

#99. Well, by accepting that sex is a physical manifestation of God, and that is not a sin-it is a blessing.

Paulo Coelho

#100. The heart that has really tasted the grace of Christ, will instinctively hate sin.

J.C. Ryle