Quotes About Sin

God is too great to be glorified only through the lives of His victorious children. He is glorified by our suffering and even by our sin. His sustaining strength is glorified when we walk through the furnace of affliction.

When we fail to believe the truth about who Jesus is and miss the impact of His astounding work in suffering and dying for our sin, it will be impossible to resist the allurement of the gods of this earth as they whisper their promised pleasures to us.

True repentance involves a hatred for sin and a turning from it and from all self-salvation projects … It's only as I hate my sin that I'll have the desire to fight it.

We will find it increasingly difficult to believe that we've been set free from sin, from the law's power to condemn, and that God's smile is resting upon us if we continually give ourselves over to what we know we should avoid. Sin strips our faith, and it leads to ultimate deadness in our lives.

We have to remember that in the life of our unregenerate children, the law is given for one reason only: to crush their self-confidence and drive them to Christ.

If by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live" (Romans 8:13, emphasis added). It is the Spirit who empowers you to put to death both your sinful desires and sinful deeds. You know that you can't do it on your own.

Do you want to learn to pray more? Learn of your sin. Ask him to show it to you, to give you a glimpse of your need. Ask him to show you what your sin cost him. Look at the cross again and again until you can say, "Lord, I'm so sinful, so weak, so deceived. Please, God, don't let a day go by without reminding me of this. Make me dependent.

It's essential for us to think about God's love today because it is only his love that can grant us the joy that will strengthen our hearts, the courage that will embolden us in our fight against sin, and the assurance that will enable us to open up our lives to him so that he might deal powerfully with our unbelief and idolatry.

We need the gospel of grace and the grace of the gospel. Children can't use the law any more than we can, because they will respond to it the same way we do. They'll ignore it or bend it or obey it outwardly for selfish purposes, but this one thing is certain: they won't obey it from the heart, because they can't. That's why Jesus had to die.

Faithlessness is a sin as far as God (Almighty) is concerned. Yes! but faithfulness is righteousness. Now, that is why the scripture says in (Genesis 15:6) Abraham believed the lord and he (God) credited it to him as righteousness. Thus, you've got to be faithful and remain faithful even in the face of challenges or difficulties. -Emeasoba George

Theology is an assault on the sin-distorted intellect; it is the obedience penetrating the realm of thought.

For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened. …" No sooner are they open than the drama beings. To look without understanding—that is paradise. Hell, then, would be the place where we understand, where we understand too much. …

P?catul este expresia religioas? a remu?c?rii.

La chute d'Adam est le seul evenement historique du paradis.

P?catul este expresia religioas? a remu?c?rii, precum regretul expresia ei poetic?. Primul este o limit? superioar?; ultimul, una inferioar?

There are hearts into which even God cannot look without losing his innocence.

Once we begin to want, we fall under the jurisdiction of the Devil.

Can we imagine a city dweller who does not have the soul of a murderer?

To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall? To publish one's taints in order to amuse or exasperate!

Sin ought to be something exquisite, my dear boy.

Forgiveness is not a superglue for broken relationships. It's not an eraser for hurtful remarks or painful memories. And forgiveness doesn't excuse us from having to cope with the consequences of sin in our lives and the lives of others. Forgiveness works, but it works at the soul level, sometimes deeper than we can see. And that is why forgiveness doesn't seem to change anything - at least not right away

Ain't no such thing as a little fault or a big fault. Satan get his foot in the door, he ain't going to rest till he's in the room.

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.

O sin, how you paint your face! How you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip!