Top 100 Sinner Quotes
#1. Man got into difficulty when he lifted his will against God's. He gets out of trouble when he bows to the divine superiority, when he repents and says humbly: "God be merciful to me a sinner." Man's extremity then becomes God's opportunity.
Billy Graham
#2. God led Jesus to a cross, not a crown, and yet that cross ultimately proved to be the gateway to freedom and forgiveness for every sinner in the world.
Bill Hybels
#3. I will make him sin; I will make him my sinner. I will let him lead me to the devil, and then, I will kill him.
L.P. Lovell
#4. Allah wanted the people who have made sins to turn from their sins and make up for them in order to be near to Allah through gaining His satisfaction, for He has promised to accept their repentance and forgive the sinner
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
#5. He answered, "Whether or not He's a sinner, I don't know. One thing I do know: I was blind, and now I can see!" John 9:25
Beth Moore
#6. 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
#7. A priest cannot acknowledge the sin or the sinner outside of the confessional.
Julie Garwood
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.
Charles Spurgeon
#11. God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#12. I would never use God to promote foreign policy decisions. I recognize that in the eyes of an almighty, I am a lowly sinner, and I ask for strength and wisdom and I pray for calmness when the seas are storming, and I pray for others.
George W. Bush
#13. Jesus Creeping God! Is there a priest in this tavern? I want to confess! I'm a fucking sinner! Venal, mortal, carnal, major, minor - however you want to call it, Lord ... I'm guilty.
Hunter S. Thompson
#14. A sinless sinner, banned awhile on earth, But by the dead commended; and with them I shall abide for ever. As for thee, Scorn, if thou wilt, the eternal laws of Heaven. ISMENE
Sophocles
#15. And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth!
John Bunyan
#19. So don't preach at us like you're some kind of saint. You're just another sinner.
Rachel Caine
#20. He said God could distinguish a sinner from a sin.
Alice Hoffman
#21. If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
H.L. Mencken
#22. We did not oversleep at St. Nicholas. The church-bell began to ring at four-thirty in the morning, and from the length of time it continued to ring I judged that it takes the Swiss sinner a good while to get the invitation through his head.
Mark Twain
#23. Bradish had never had any occasion to experience self-righteousness other than the self-righteousness of the sinner.
John Cheever
#24. A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.
Jonathan Edwards
#25. But getting the sinner where justice deemed he belonged was the trick. It required a system. And the system demanded its rules, techniques, manpower, organizations, and loopholes. And the occasional seminar to educate and inform.
J.D. Robb
#26. In case you're not bright enough to figure it out, there's a real upside to having a sinner like me answer your phone. I lie, and your conscience stays clear.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#27. God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.
Archibald Alexander
#28. If you see yourself as a "little sinner" you will inevitably see Jesus as a "little savior".
Martin Luther
#29. For, Thou art righteous, O Lord, but we have sinned and committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and Thy hand is grown heavy upon us, and we are justly delivered over unto that ancient sinner, the king of death; because he persuaded our will to be like his will whereby he abode not in Thy truth.
Augustine Of Hippo
#30. Oh, everything's too damned expensive these days. This Bible cost 15 bucks! And talk about a preachy book! Everybody's a sinner! Except this guy.
Dan Castellaneta
#31. I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly is to bring the Vedantic ideals into the everyday practical life of the saint or the sinner, of the sage or the ignoramus, of the Brahmin or the Pariah.
Swami Vivekananda
#33. Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.
William Shakespeare
#34. And who has prayed for Satan? In eight hundred years, who has had the common decency to pray for the one sinner who needed it most?
Mark Twain
#35. The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn't sin but wants to sin.
Criss Jami
#36. You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.
Joel Osteen
#37. None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.
Archibald Alexander
#38. I am not a saint; I am a sinner. I want to sin again and
again and again.
S. Jae-Jones
#39. I complained to Waki' about the weakness of my memorisation,
So he instructed me to abandon disobedience;
He informed me that knowledge is a light,
And the light of Allah is not given to a sinner.
Al-Shafi'i
#41. Luther's doctrine of justification depends upon two things: the constant preaching of the wrath of God in the face of sin; and the realization that every Christian is at once righteous and a sinner, thus needing the hammer of the law to terrify and break the sinful conscience.
Carl R. Trueman
#43. A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.
Mahatma Gandhi
#44. Although the sinner does not believe in Hell, he shall nevertheless go there if he has the misfortune to die in mortal sin.
Anthony Mary Claret
#45. God has been described by all the scriptures of the world as protector and saviour of the sinner.
Mahatma Gandhi
#46. The holder of a
monopoly is a sinner and offender
Anonymous
#47. I am but a miserable sinner, but I have found, in my long life, that the cenobite has no foe worse than sadness.
Anatole France
#48. In the land of the killers, a sinner's mind is a sanctum.
Eminem
#49. It is a strange thing that both the injurer and the injured, the sinner and he who is sinned against, should find in the mass movement an escape from a blemished life.
Eric Hoffer
#50. The sinner is the gospel's reason for existence. You, my friend, to whom this word now comes, if you are undeserving, ill-deserving, hell-deserving, you are the sort of man for whom the gospel is ordained, and arranged, and proclaimed. God justifieth the ungodly.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#51. No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned killer. We all know were mortal, and yet we all believe we'll live forever.
Christopher Pike
#52. Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde
#53. God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand no bowels, Only consonants and vowels.
John Crowe Ransom
#54. 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
#55. If a sinner comes into your assembly or you otherwise come into contact with him, remember that he is a human being for whom Christ died. He stands at the foot of the cross, just as you stand at the foot of the cross.
J. Vernon McGee
#56. However great a sinner may have been, if he shows himself devout to Mary he will never perish.
Hilary Of Poitiers
#57. Southerners don't gossip; Southerners pray for one other. Of course, you have to know the details of the sinner's sins to get any good praying done, then you have to recruit others to pray, and they need the details too. It's called Prayer Circle.
Gretchen Archer
#58. I am a sinner ... who's probably gonna sin again ... Lord forgive me!
Kendrick Lamar
#59. Understand two thoughts, and fear them. One says, "You are a saint," the other, "You won't be saved." Both of these thoughts are from the enemy, and there is no truth in them. But think this way: I am a great sinner, but the Lord is merciful. He loves people very much, and He will forgive my sins.
Silouan The Athonite
#60. 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
#61. We only fully grasp the gospel when we understand, as Paul did, that we are the worst sinner we know
Timothy Keller
#63. I would sooner bring one sinner to Jesus Christ than unravel all the mysteries of the divine Word, for salvation is the one thing we are to live for.
Charles Spurgeon
#64. Superficial views of God and His holiness will produce superficial views of sin and atonement. God hates sin. It is His uncompromising foe. Sin is vile and detestable in the sight of God ... The sinner and God are at opposite poles of the moral universe.
Billy Graham
#65. I don't think we've got the gospel right yet. What does it mean to be 'saved'? When I read the Bible, I don't see it meaning, 'I'm going to heaven after I die.' Before modern evangelicalism nobody accepted Jesus Christ as their personal Savior, or walked down an aisle, or said the sinner's prayer.
Brian D. McLaren
#66. Thou didst love me before I loved thee,
an enemy, a sinner, a loathsome worm.
Arthur Bennett
#67. Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
Oscar Wilde
#68. I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
Nelson Mandela
#69. There's a pardon for every sinner on the topside of the earth, but you have to call for it by faith before it becomes yours. In other words, you have to trust Christ as your Savior.
J. Vernon McGee
#70. The sinner . . . while retaining the ability to imagine, has forfeited the basis on which to imagine God."[
Gregory A. Boyd
#71. I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.
Charles Peguy
#72. I've been the lowest low on the planet, I've been a sinner all my days. And I was living with my hands on the trigger, I had no sense to change my ways.
Sting
#73. Ask yourself this question: Of this had been a white child found dead in a black neighborhood, would they be knocking on every door? 'Yes, sir.' Searching high and low? 'Yes, indeed.' It this had been a white child, would they paint him as a sinner and not a saint? 'Lord, no...
Ravi Howard
#74. The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace ... The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off.
Dallas Willard
#75. There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.
Charles Spurgeon
#76. Whenever you preach, be sure that you lift the Saviour high and lay the sinner low.
John Wilmot
#77. But I cannot tell that to this old sinner, and I cannot comfort him either; he has made himself unable to hear my voice.
C.S. Lewis
#78. One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some mediaeval saint or the morbid confessions of a modern sinner. It was a poisonous book.
Oscar Wilde
#79. Cheap grace means the justification of sin without the justification of the sinner.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#80. The popular gospel of this day, is the laughing-stock of Hell; it dare neither damn the sinner, nor sanctify the saint.
Catherine Booth
#81. An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.
Sophie Kerr
#82. The mercies of God make a sinner proud, but a saint humble.
Thomas Watson
#83. 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
#84. The heartbrokenness of the sinner is better than the forcefulness of the obedient
Abu Madyan
#85. You are a sinner married to a sinner ... and the happiest marriage is the union of two forgivers.
Skip Heitzig
#87. We ought to love the sinner and hate OUR sin.
Johnny Hunt
#88. I'm a public sinner with a ton of money. Any church would want me.
Lisa Kleypas
#89. The gospel has two parts. It has the part that says you're a sinner, and it has the part that says you're loved and accepted.
Timothy Keller
#90. I'm a sinner. I fumble. People must see me as one of them. The things that worry them, must worry me
Patrice Motsepe
#91. Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought to do, and you have got the key to every blessing that a sinner can reasonably hope for.
John Keble
#92. The monument I want after I am dead is a monument with two legs going around the world-a saved sinner telling about the salvation of Jesus Christ.
Dwight L. Moody
#93. The history of Protestantism is very great. It presents like no other of Luther's writings the central thought of Christianity, the justification of the sinner for the sake of Christ's merits alone.
Martin Luther
#94. I'm a picker, I'm a grinner, I'm a lover and I'm a sinner. I play my music in the sun.
Barnabas
#96. 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
#97. Never does sin so reign in the Church or State, as when it has gained reputation,or, at least, is no disgrace to the sinner,nor is a matter od offence to we who behold it.
Richard Baxter
#98. It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to the law And the sin is in relation to the sinner.
T. S. Eliot
#99. Religion imprisons God. By its own accord, if we are made in the image and likeness of God, then His condemnation of the sinner is an act of hypocrisy. I believe God to be greater than that.
Steve Maraboli
#100. With the world in the state it is today, whoever is virtuous must be so to the point of sainthood, and even beyond; whoever is a sinner must be so to the point of bestiality and even beyond. Today the middle road is no more.
Nikos Kazantzakis
