Quotes About Sinner

There is no saint without a past, and no sinner without a future.

The sinless One took on the face of a sinner so that we sinners could take on the face of a saint.

Here is the big difference between victory in Christ and victory in the world: A victor in the world rejoices over something he did. But the believer rejoices over who he is—a child of God, a forgiven sinner, an heir of eternity.

Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

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.

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.

I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!

Evil means, he insisted, corrupt and degrade not only the purposes for which they are undertaken but also the persons who stoop to such means. Overcoming the urge to resort to such means is hardest when one aims to rectify past injustices. It is because 'hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept so rarely practiced that 'the poison of hatred spreads in the world

For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner?

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.

I was about to be a preacher, but I was a sinner.

I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.

An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.

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.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

According to Augustine, the power of sin is such that it takes hold of our will, and as long as we are under its sway we cannot move our will to be rid of it. The most we can accomplish is to struggle between willing and not willing, which does little more than show the powerlessness of our will against itself. The sinner can will nothing but sin. Within that condition, there certainly are good and bad choices; but even the best choices still fall within the category of sin.

Do you know, Princess, said I with a shade of annoyance, that one should never spurn a repentant sinner, for out of sheer desperation he may become twice as sinful . . .

All the hungers we have for love, for union, for happiness are given by God to lead us to him. The difference between a saint and the greatest sinner is where they go to satisfy that hunger.

The sinner uses sin-tainted reason (Eph 4:18) and empirical observations to rationalize a prejudice against God (Rom. 1:18); he does not use it to discover truth wherever it leads. As

My God! O let me call Thee mine! Weak, wretched sinner though I be, My trembling soul would fain be Thine, My feeble faith still clings to Thee.

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.

What is clear is that a spiritually dead sinner contributes nothing—except his sin—to His salvation, not even his faith.