Quotes About Sin

Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses. Acts 13:39

It is an irony still to be appreciated by many scholars that by so maximizing sinfulness (before God every man is guilty of every conceivable sin) Protestants tried to minimize its psychological burden (no man is required to ponder and recite his every actual sin)

Rousseau, who replaced the Christian notion of original sin with the romantic notion of original innocence. In his 1762 treatise Émile, or On Education, Rousseau wrote, "Everything is good as it leaves the hand of the Author of things, and everything degenerates in the hands of man.

The sin of ingratitude may not have made the Top Seven, but according to Dante it consigns the sinners to the ninth circle of Hell, and that's where post-1960s intellectual culture may find itself because of its amnesia for the conquerors of disease.

The cross shows us the seriousness of our sin-but it also shows us the immeasurable love of God.

I don't hate homosexuals. I love homosexuals. It's the sin of homosexuality I hate.

The more clearly we see the infinite chasm between God's glory and our sinful falling short thereof, the greater will be our appreciation of His grace and love in bridging that gulf to redeem us.

There is no sin so profound, no despondency so low, no misery so abject, but the love of Christ is deeper.

Don't be troubled if you don't feel the love of God in yourself, but thing about the Lord, that He is merciful, and guard yourself from sins, and the grace of God will teach you.

For as long as love takes up the whole heart, what room is there for sin therein?

How about you hate your sin, and I'll hate my sin and we'll just love each other!

To be rooted in love is to look beyond surface appearances to see the inner beauty in others often disfigured by sin.

Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil.

True repentance hates the sin, and not merely the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered and felt God's love.

In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.

Not only the guilt, but the love of sin, and its dominion, are taken away, subdued by grace, and cordially renounced by the believing pardoned sinner.

You will always know whether you are delivered from the guilt of sin by answering this question: Am I delivered from the love of sin?

How can we love sin, when we remember that because of our sins Jesus died?

Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.

You said they had found the secret of happiness because they had never heard that love can be a sin.

There is no evil that the father's love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.

There is only one sin - lack of love. Be brave, be capable of loving, even if love seems a terrible and treacherous thing. Find joy in love. Find joy in victory. Follow the dictates of your heart.

Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words

The basic formula of all sin is: frustrated or neglected love.