Quotes About Sin

She meditated upon a lie. This is the essence of temptation.

A believer who has been giving in to the pull of his sinful heart never learns the extent of its power over him until he begins to do right. It is very much like the experience of one who is rowing a canoe. As long as he is going with the current, he has no idea how strong the current really is. Only when he decides to turn his canoe around and start rowing against the current does he experience its true strength.

If we want that power to quicken our friends who are dead in sin, we must look to God, and not be looking to man to do it. If we look alone to ministers, if we look alone to Christ's disciples to do this work, we shall be disappointed. If we look to the Spirit of God and expect it to come from Him and Him alone, then we shall honor the Spirit, and the Spirit will do

With sin on the rampage and demonic powers controlling more and more of our culture, we need an enduement of divine power similar to what God gave the early church. Why don't we stop rationalizing and justifying the spiritual impotence all around us? Why not rather humble ourselves and seek God with all our heart for "something from heaven"?

Quiero que nuestros miembros siempre tengan presentes el hecho de que «si vivimos en la luz, así como él está en la luz, tenemos comunión unos con otros, y la sangre de su Hijo Jesucristo nos limpia de todo pecado» (1 Juan 1:7). M

En realidad, pedimos tres cosas: 1) gracia; 2) conocer; 3) rechazar los pecados. "Gracia" significa "don". Rezamos para que Dios nos dé el don de ver a través de los ojos de Dios. Otra forma de expresar esto es que le pedimos a Dios que nos dé el don de ver los dones que Dios nos da.

Prejudice may indeed be a universal human sin that all races can exhibit, but racism is more than an inevitable consequence of human nature or social accident. Rather, racism is a system of oppression for social and economic purposes. As many analysts have suggested, racism is prejudice plus power.

People say that they will become Christians if you answer their objections, but very seldom is this actually true. Why? Because the problem of salvation is a moral one, not an intellectual one.

Christ died for sinners, not for intellectual doubters. A lot of people hide behind academic questions to avoid the real issue. The only common denominator in this world is sin. Men love their sin. I

A person who is conscious of grave sin is not to celebrate Mass or receive the body of the Lord without previous sacramental confession unless there is a grave reason and there is no opportunity to confess; in this case the person is to remember the obligation to make an act of perfect contrition which includes the resolution of confessing as soon as possible [CIC 916].

I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. This is something that God recognizes I will do—and I have done it—and God forgives me for it.

Make up your mind that you are not going to sin in response to anything your spouse says or does. In that way, your behavior can be used by God to help your spouse respect and trust you.

Obedience to the roles in Ephesians chapter five completely neutralizes our sin natures and causes us to return to the blessed state of unity and intimacy that God originally designed for marriage.

That is the essence of women's sin natures in marriage. They often become stubbornly defiant and refuse to receive input from God or their husbands concerning issues in their lives and marriages.

For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. (1 Samuel 15:23a NKJV)

Why would the Bible equate stubbornness with the sin of idolatry? Because it is the worship of our own opinion. Stubborn people are hard to deal with because they are filled with pride and can't acknowledge any thinking that doesn't align with their own.

sinful motive often hides itself under the mask of reverence for another virtue.")

Um corpo diferente de todos, mais fino, mais alvo, cor-de-rosa, uma beleza que não se sabe — como uma riqueza inesperada, roubada, como uma vertigem... Despir Dona Lalinha será sempre um pecado. Eu teria de ter vivido para a merecer — desde a hora do meu nascimento.

For even a little sin in our wellspring has the power to pollute and corrupt the very essence of who we are.

Cehennem'in eÅŸiÄŸine gelmiÅŸ kiÅŸilerin ÅŸeytandan ödü kopuyordu; zaten cehennemin içinde olanlar içinse ÅŸeytan özel biri deÄŸildi, yaln?zca baÅŸka biriydi, o kadar.

Tú que tanto has besado tú que me has enseñado, sabes mejor que yo que hasta los huesos sólo calan los besos que no has dado, los labios del pecado.

The greatest sin, after the initial sin, is its publication.

The primary function of mental pain, says Lewis, is to force our misdirectedness on our attention. But just as it belongs to our fallen state to be blind to holiness until we suffer the consequences of sin, and blind to a higher good until natural satisfactions are snatched from us; so equally it belongs to our state that we cannot achieve disinterestedness until it costs us pain.

Stolen pleasures are always more thrilling than those come by honestly.