Quotes About Sin

It's a sin to hate, and for that reason alone, we must not hate the Normans... We can, however, thoroughly dislike them, Alice.

a priest cannot acknowledge the sin or the sinner outside of the confessional. The seal of silence is sacred.

a priest cannot acknowledge the sin or the sinner outside of the confessional.

I cannot expiate my sin, yet I am compelled to try. My mind will not let me rest. There must be something I could have done, some way I could have acted, something I could have changed to snatch victory from bitter defeat.

If there is not radical, concrete growth in humble love towards everyone (even your enemies), you don't really know you are a sinner saved by grace. And if there is not radical, concrete growth in confidence and joy (even in difficulties), you don't really know you are a sinner saved by grace. - Timothy Keller

When Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden, they probably did not fall into a state of original sin, as Saint Augustine believed, but into an agrarian economy.

Repentance is simply agreeing with God about our wrong and then doing an about-face and walking in the other direction, committing the sin no more.

you savor the things we seek to avoid.

It was no more than a single grain of sand from a mountain of sins Halsey yeah to atone for, and it didn't change a thing for Kurt, but she had to start somewhere.

To wish to withstand the Holy Spirit would be the one unforgivable sin.

There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.

Men are idol factories.

In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.

Multitudes think they like to do evil; yet no man ever really enjoyed doing evil since God made the world.

Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell.

Not only commission makes a sin. A man is guilty of all those sins he hateth not. If I cannot avoid all, yet I will hate all.

Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.

Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man.

It is a sin against God not to pray for the Israel of God, especially for those of them that are under our charge. Good men are afraid of the guilt of omissions ( I Samuel 12).

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.

Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.

God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money, Pride made the devil, and the devil made sin; So God made a cole-pit to put the devil in.

A minister, without boldness, is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, a sentinel that is afraid to let off his gun. If men will be bold in sin, ministers must be bold to reprove.