Top 100 The Sinner Quotes
#1. As St. Faustina writes, "The miracles of mercy are impenetrable. Neither the sinner nor the just one will fathom them" (Diary, 1215).
Vinny Flynn
#2. The law repels, the gospel attracts. The law shows the distance which there is between God and man; the gospel bridges that awful chasm, and brings the sinner across it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#3. the truth can be quickly received, or received at all, only by the sinner who knows and admits that he is guilty of having sinned much.
Malcolm X
#4. The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous!
Frederick Franck
#5. [On Christianity:] Its lip-service and its empty rites have made it the easiest of all tasks for the usurer to cloak his cruelties, the miser to hide his avarice, the lawyer to condone his lies, the sinner of all social sins to purchase the social immunity from them by outward deference to churches.
Ouida
#6. The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.
Marcus Aurelius
#7. LORD ILLINGWORTH. The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. LADY
Oscar Wilde
#8. In opposition to the plenary ability taught by the Pelagians, the gracious ability of the Arminians, and the natural ability of the New School theologians, the Scriptures declare the total inability of the sinner to turn himself to God or to do that which is truly good in God's sight
Augustus Hopkins Strong
#9. God is righteous in making the sinner righteous.
Joseph Prince
#10. As a rich man sees no reason for rejoicing in a meager gift of bread until a turn of events leaves him impoverished, so the sinner finds no joy in salvation until the horrid nature of his sin is revealed and he sees himself as wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked.
Paul David Washer
#11. Hate the sin, not the sinner, isn't that what good people say? Or are you asking yourself at what point does the sin overtake the sinner?
Katie McGarry
#12. My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'
George McGovern
#13. Sin had no sooner come into the world than God came in grace seeking the sinner, and so from the first question, 'Adam, where art thou?' on to the incarnation, God has been speaking to man.
Henry Allen Ironside
#14. When God justifies a sinner, everything in God is on the sinner's side. All the attributes of God are on the sinner's side. It isn't that mercy is pleading for the sinner and justice is trying to beat him to death. All of God does all that God does.
A.W. Tozer
#16. The cross is the suffering love of God bearing the guilt of man's sin, which alone is able to melt the sinner's heart and bring him to repentance for salvation. "For he hath made him to be sin for us" [2 Corinthians 5:21 KJV].
Billy Graham
#17. The sinner's prayer has sent more people to Hell than all the bars in America.
Leonard Ravenhill
#18. He loves, He hopes, He waits. Our Lord prefers to wait Himself for the sinner for years rather than keep us waiting an instant.
Maria Goretti
#19. His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands.
Hermann Hesse
#20. We will remember the hurt, the injustice, and the trauma, but we can forgive the sinner.
Cathy Burnham Martin
#22. Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of this Christian order and Knights of that one, all surrounding the sinner's free will in an embattled circle.
Sean O'Casey
#23. In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner.
Richard John Neuhaus
#24. Now he was the minister and she the sinner, an arrangement she did not particularly enjoy.
Gregory Maguire
#26. You are the Winner,
You are the Looser,
You are the Sinner,
It all depends upon how serious are you about.
Azhar Sabri
#27. Can the sin of one or a few cause suffering for many? The answer, of course, is yes, for no sin is isolated in the life of the sinner. It spreads like poison gas into every available crevice.
Billy Graham
#28. Theology reminded me that, however diabolical the act, it did not turn the perpetrator into a demon. We had to distinguish between the deed and the perpetrator, between the sinner and the sin, to hate and condemn the sin while being filled with compassion for the sinner.
Desmond Tutu
#29. Once again was it proved that the designs of Providence are impenetrable and that the sinner, climbing out of the pit of his filthiness, may feel himself touched by grace.
Gabriel Chevallier
#30. I would much prefer to be sinned upon than the sinner. It is easier, comprenez-vous? With the clear conscience one sleeps very well.
Nikki Sex
#31. The brethren sometimes err in measuring the Divine love by the sinner's knowledge.
George Eliot
#32. The infinite Atonement is for both the sinner and for the saint in each of us.
David A. Bednar
#33. We must remember to teach our children that even if others fail to be kind and considerate, we ought to be slow to condemn and very quick to forgive. We need not be tolerant of sin, but we must become tolerant and forgiving of the sinner.
Theodore M. Burton
#34. Why this meaningless talk about the believer, the kafir, the obedient, the sinner, the rightly guided, the misdirected, the Muslim, the pious, the infidel, the fire worshipper? All are like beads in a rosary.
Anonymous
#35. When God accepts a sinner, He is, in fact, only accepting Christ. He looks into the sinner's eyes, and He sees His own dear Son's image there, and He takes him in.
Charles Spurgeon
#36. The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
DeWitt Clinton
#37. All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else.
Swami Vivekananda
#38. The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he loved him.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#41. So it had something to do with the sinner, and something with the judge, and the fear of not being forgiven, and the relief of being loved again.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#42. Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.
Horace
#43. A gospel that in no way offends the sinner has not been understood.
Mark Dever
#44. Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.
Saadi
#45. If God requires of the sinner, dead in sin, that he should take the first step, then he requires just that which renders salvation as impossible under the gospel as it was under the law, since man is as unable to believe as he is to obey.
Charles Spurgeon
#47. The very God whom we have offended has Himself provided the way whereby the offense has been dealt with. His anger, His wrath against sin and the sinner, has been satisfied, appeased and He therefore can now thus reconcile man unto Himself.
David Lloyd-Jones
#48. If we can't "love the sinner; hate the sin" then how can we relate to ourselves? Love who we are in Christ but still hate the sin remaining.
Timothy Keller
#49. 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
#50. A priest cannot acknowledge the sin or the sinner outside of the confessional.
Julie Garwood
#53. Bradish had never had any occasion to experience self-righteousness other than the self-righteousness of the sinner.
John Cheever
#54. 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
#55. 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
#57. 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
#58. God has been described by all the scriptures of the world as protector and saviour of the sinner.
Mahatma Gandhi
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#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. but I am prepared to go any distance to see the face of that man who can really make a distinction between the sin and the sinner. It is easy to say so.
Swami Vivekananda
#67. The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats the Fall.
Arthur Machen
#68. Think not of the sinner or the greatness of his sin, but think of the greatness of the Savior!
Charles Spurgeon
#69. Through Christ we have a new identity
we should not be speaking to our old man, the sinner, and giving him his identity back.
Eric Samuel Timm
#70. It wasn't a potential atonement actuated by the sinner, it was an actual atonement initiated by the savior.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#71. By welcoming a marginalized person whose body is wounded and by welcoming the sinner whose soul is wounded, we put our credibility as Christians on the line. Let us always remember the words of Saint John of the Cross: In the evening of life, we will be judged on love alone.
Pope Francis
#72. In this situation however, I have to wonder ... which of us is the sinner?
Yukiru Sugisaki
#73. The good man's life is full of light. The sinner's road is dark and gloomy.
Anonymous
#74. In life I would much prefer to be sinned upon than the sinner. It is easier, vous comprenez? With the clear conscience one sleeps very well. The sinner may deny it ... but in his heart he knows. He does not deserve to be happy.
Nikki Sex
#75. The sinner runs when no one is pursuing him
Meaning: one's guilt will always haunt or live with him
Ikechukwu Joseph
#76. 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
#77. Whenever you preach, be sure that you lift the Saviour high and lay the sinner low.
John Wilmot
#78. Cheap grace means the justification of sin without the justification of the sinner.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#79. The popular gospel of this day, is the laughing-stock of Hell; it dare neither damn the sinner, nor sanctify the saint.
Catherine Booth
#80. The heartbrokenness of the sinner is better than the forcefulness of the obedient
Abu Madyan
#81. We ought to love the sinner and hate OUR sin.
Johnny Hunt
#82. The sinner . . . while retaining the ability to imagine, has forfeited the basis on which to imagine God."[
Gregory A. Boyd
#83. 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
#85. If I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation
Anne Bronte
#86. If the law could be changed, man might have been saved without the sacrifice of Christ; but the fact that it was necessary for Christ to give his life for the fallen race, proves that the law of God will not release the sinner from its claims upon him.
Ellen G. White
#87. It is always distressing when outraged morality does not possess the strength of arm to administer direct chastisement on the sinner.
W. Somerset Maugham
#89. The saint and the sinner are twin brothers ... one was born but the moment before the other.
Khalil Gibran
#90. But the church, like a tender, loving mother holds aloof from active punishment herself, as the sinner is too severely punished already by the civil law, and there must be at least someone to have pity on him. The church holds aloof, above all, because its judgment alone contains the truth ...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#91. The world loves the Saint, and Christ loves the sinner.
Oscar Wilde
#92. Sin and the sinner both deserve punishment
Kim Soo-hyun
#93. That is probably why pride is not simply another sin among many, but a sin in a category of its own. Other sins lead the sinner further away from God, but pride is particularly heinous in that it attempts to elevate the sinner above God.
Anonymous
#94. Fagan hated what his father was, but he still loved him. I reckon that's the way God is. Loving us enough to send Jesus but hating the way we live. Hating the sin, not the sinner.
Francine Rivers
#95. What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in quenchless flames of hell.
Isaac Watts
#96. One of the consequences of sin is that it makes the sinner pity himself instead of causing him to turn to God. One of the first signs of new life is that the individual takes sides with God against himself.
Donald Grey Barnhouse
#97. God made His own Son to be sin that He might make the sinner a saint.
Oswald Chambers
#98. The sinner does not need more grace than the saint, nor does the immature and undisciplined believer need more than the godly, zealous missionary. We all need the same amount of grace because the "currency" of our good works is debased and worthless before God.
Jerry Bridges
#99. Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction.
Peter Kreeft
#100. The gospel comes to the sinner at once with nothing short of complete forgiveness as the starting-point of all his efforts to be holy. It does not say, "Go and sin no more, and I will not condemn thee." It says at once, "Neither do I condemn thee: go and sin no more.
Horatius Bonar
