Sin Quotes
In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.
During his time with the French army, years before, one of the sergeants had explained to the younge...
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May we be enabled to say "No" to sin and "Yes" to the sinner.
I am sure of God's hand and guidance... You must never doubt that I am thankful and glad to go the w...
Show MoreIf we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could ...
Show MoreWe should never argue with the devil about our sins, but we should speak about our sins only with Je...
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In confession occurs the breakthrough of the Cross. The root of all sin is pride, superbia. I want t...
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Why is it that it is often easier for us to confess our sins to God than to a brother? God is holy a...
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If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the si...
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Reproof is unavoidable. God’s Word demands it when a brother falls into open sin. The practice of di...
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If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of ...
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The real difference in the believer who follows Christ and has mortified his will and died after the...
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The flesh resists this daily humiliation, first by a frontal attack, and later by hiding itself unde...
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When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit wi...
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Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.' These men without possessions or power, thes...
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The earthly form of Christ is the form that died on the cross. The image of God is the image of Chri...
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Jesus does not impose intolerable restrictions on his disciples, he does not forbid them to look at ...
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Only the man who follows the command of Jesus single-mindedly, and unresistingly lets his yoke rest ...
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I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it's like a battery: you've got t...
Show MoreWhat if our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good? Wh...
Show MoreMaybe the one had to be lost for the others to be found?

Forgiveness does not wipe away the consequences of the sin. The consequences are borne by somebody.
I don't even understand the connection with 'died for your sins'. He died for your sin, well, how do...
Show MoreIn time, Mr Hall, one gets to recognize that sneer, that hardness, for fornication extends far beyon...
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, a...
Show MoreMen are punished by their sins, not for them.

I, however, have really never been anywhere yet, not because some sins or other could wrap themselve...
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She freshens me up above a bit. Who'd ha thought that face - as bright and as strong as the angel I ...
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To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men.
The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many s...
Show MoreBut in all His dealings with His creatures God has maintained the principles of righteousness by rev...
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While it is important on the one hand that laxness in dealing with sin be avoided, it is equally imp...
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Sensual indulgence weakens the mind and debases the soul. The moral and intellectual powers are benu...
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No use wishing now for any other sin.
All sinners would be miserable in heaven.

You're going to have things to repent, boy,' Mr. John had told Nick. 'That's one of the best things ...
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Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must b...
Show MoreIn the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride—it is always considered a sin. Therefore...
Show MoreJesus paid for our sins, so let's get our money's worth.

There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Ju...
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Those who correct others should watch for the Holy Spirit to go ahead of them and touch a person's h...
Show MoreLittle faults become great, and even monstrous in our eyes, in proportion as the pure light of God i...
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Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and wher...
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To confess your sins to God is not to tell God anything God doesn't already know. Until you confess ...
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Doubt as sin. — Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be s...
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Under Christianity neither morality nor religion has any point of contact with actuality. It offers ...
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The nice people do not come to God, because they think they are good through their own merits or bad...
Show MoreWhen you think of the condition the world is in now you sometimes wish that Noah had missed the boat...
Show MoreVery harmful effects can follow accepting the philosophy which denies personal guilt or sin and ther...
Show MoreThe wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly...
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It was not enough that the Son of God should come down from the heavens and appear as the Son of Man...
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He told them therefore that He was not a Teacher asking for a disciple who would parrot His sayings;...
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The more He loved those for whom He was the ransom, the more His anguish would increase, as it is th...
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He came to put a harlot above a Pharisee, a penitent robber above a High Priest, and a prodigal son ...
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To those who rejected Him, righteousness would one day appear as a terrible justice; to the sinful m...
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As Adam lost the heritage of union with God in a garden, so now Our Blessed Lord ushered in its rest...
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The good repent on knowing their sin; the evil become angry when discovered. Ignorance is not the ca...
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The deaf who deny they are deaf will never hear; the sinners who deny there is sin deny thereby the ...
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Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justif...
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Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well. He is always helpi...
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Strong passions are the precious raw material of sanctity. Individuals that have carried their sinni...
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Each instinct and passion of man is amoral; it is only the abuse of these passions that makes them w...
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That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort t...
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A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means...
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Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back,Guiltie of dust and sin.
Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin.The only vengeance worth havin...
Show MoreWith every morn my life afresh must breakThe crust of self, gathered about me fresh;That thy wind-sp...
Show MoreI came to England weak in body, and, in consequence of much study, as I suppose, I was taken ill on ...
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If one evil thought, if one evil word, if one evil action, deserves eternal damnation, how many hell...
Show MoreLust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life! To co...
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We priests are sneered at and always shall be—the accusation is such an easy one—as deeply envious, ...
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The world has come to such a state that one can no longer find anyone who does good.
No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to f...
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Being seventy is not a sin.
For if this God exists, I thought, and if even you – with your lusts and your adulteries and the tim...
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But I'm a bad priest, you see. I know--from experience--how much beauty Satan carried down with him ...
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How often the priest had heard the same confession--Man was so limited: he hadn't even the ingenuity...
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We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we ea...
Show MoreI did not intend making a philippic against covetousness, a sin to which I believe no one here is ad...
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I'd rather you shot at tin cans in the back yard, but i know you'll go after birds. Shoot all the bl...
Show MoreMockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, ...
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In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Vir...
Show MoreNever is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.

Sin is too great an evil for man to meddle with. His attempts to remove it do but increase it, and h...
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Lo, God! I am Thy handiwork. I have sinned and have done great evil, yet I am still Thy handiwork, w...
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there is both fear and comfort to be drawn from devils--the fear speaks for itself, the comfort come...
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If now we attend to ourselves on occasion of any transgression of duty, we shall find that we in fac...
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Christ is to the souls of men what the sun is to the world. He is the center and source of all spiri...
Show MoreThat sin will never stand firm which is heartily prayed against....We must spread out all our case b...
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I've never seen such a bunch of apple-eaters.

I don't think anybody'd remember and certainly do know everybody'd lie. The reason I'm so bitter and...
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It seemed so tawdry what he had offered her - mere money - compared with what she offered him. He of...
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Such moments passed and the wasting fires of lust sprang up again. The verses passed from his lips a...
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—Pascal, if I remember rightly, would not suffer his mother to kiss him as he feared the contact of ...
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Wombed in sin darkness I was too, made not begotten. By them, the man with my voice and my eyes and ...
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Whether you realize it or not, your ongoing battle with unbelief drives all your sinful thoughts, em...
Show MoreFudging the data in any way whatsoever is quite literally a sin against the holy ghost of science. I...
Show MoreOur view of human problems determines who is qualified to speak to them. If sin is the primary human...
Show MoreA rebellion against God, even as believers, is fueled by the toxic fumes of unbelief.
















