Quotes About Sin

We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God's wrath and get God's love.

The crucifix does not signify defeat or failure. It reveals to us the Love that overcomes evil and sin.

To love is a pleasure of youth, a sin in old age.

That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.

What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.

God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The very light that is meant to help us appears to us as our enemy when we seek the darkness.

The sinful emotions are stirred most deeply by self-love.

And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

If love is a sin, live a lie. You and Me, until I die.

Try to put in the hearts of your children a love for home. Make them long to be with their families. So much sin could be avoided if our people really loved their homes.

No one wrote better about the sin of pride, the corruption of power and the redemption of love. I will miss you, Gabriel García Márquez.

if I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation

the Devil's hand directs our every move - / the things we loathed become the things we love

You come before the judgment seat of God full of rebellion and mistakes. Because of his justice he cannot dismiss your sin, but because of his love he cannot dismiss you. So, in an act which stunned the heavens, he punished himself on the cross for your sins. God's justice and love are equally honored. And you, God's creation, are forgiven.

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

Confession is a radical reliance on grace. A proclamation of our trust in God's goodness. "What I did was bad," we acknowledge, "but your grace is greater than my sin, so I confess it." If our understanding of grace is small, our confession will be small: reluctant, hesitant, hedged with excuses and qualifications, full of fear of punishment. But great grace creates an honest confession.

Jesus did not enter the world to help us save ourselves. He entered the world to save us from ourselves.

The sinful nature is all about self: pleasing self, promoting self, preserving self. Sin is selfish.

This is why he refused to close his fist. He saw the list! What kept him from resisting? This warrant, this tabulation of your failures. He knew the price of those sins was death. He knew the source of those sins was you, and since he couldn't bear the thought of eternity without you, he chose the nails.

A happy saint is one who is at the same time aware of the severity of sin and the immensity of grace.

Sin is not diminished, nor is God's ability to forgive it. The saint dwells in grace, not guilt. This is the tranquil soul.

Sin not only breaks our relationship with God, it also hampers our relationships with others.

The snake pulled back the curtain to the throne room and invited Eve to take a seat. Put on the crown. Pick up the scepter. Put on the cape. See how it feels to have power. See how feels to have a name. See how it feels to be in control! Eve swallowed the hook. The temptation to be like God eclipsed her view of God.

Jesús vino a salvarnos, no solo de la política, los enemigos, los retos o las dificultades. Él vino a salvarnos de nuestros propios pecados.