Quotes About Sin

It is possible through sin to harden our hearts against God so long that we lose all desire for God. The Scripture says: "God also gave them up" [Romans 1:24 KJV].

There are thousands of lonely people who carry heavy and difficult burdens of grief, anxiety, pain, and disappointment; but the loneliest of all is one whose life is steeped in sin.

Our souls have a disease. It causes all the troubles and difficulties in the world. It causes all the troubles, confusions, and disillusionments in your own life. The name of the disease is . . . sin.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that because God is love everything is going to be sweet, beautiful, and happy and that no one will be punished for his sins . . . God's love provided the cross of Jesus, by which we can have forgiveness and cleansing.

We have been told by God that if we sin against Him and break His commandments, He will bring judgment upon the world. It is my responsibility and my duty as a minister of the Gospel to [warn] people. This is the message I must deliver.

He was about to take upon Himself the sins of men. He was to become sin for us.

God could not consistently love men if He did not provide for the judgment of evildoers.

Man himself is helpless to detach himself from the gnawing guilt of a heart weighed down with the guilt of sin. But where man has failed, God has succeeded.

O God, I know that I am a sinner and need Your forgiveness. I believe that You died for my sins. I want to turn from my sins. I now invite You to come into my heart and life. I want to trust You as Savior and follow You as Lord, in the fellowship of your church. In Christ's name, Amen.

To find the right path, we first need to remember why we are on the wrong path. The reason can be put in one word: sin.

You should no more allow sinful imaginations to accumulate in your mind and soul than you would let garbage collect in your living room.

What stirs God most is not physical suffering but sin. All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die.

The devil is the god of this world and he has blinded our eyes.

Sin is the great clogger, and the blood of Christ is the great cleanser.

There is one thing God's love cannot do. It cannot forgive the unrepentant sinner.

We are not going to build a Utopia on Earth. Why? Because of human nature. Sin keeps us from building a paradise on Earth. But we are to work for social justice—that is our command in Scripture—we're to do all we can so both we and others can live a peaceable and free life, and a life of human dignity. Only Christ can change hearts, but that does not mean that we neglect social and political relationships.

The Bible says there is a certain pleasure in sin. However, it is short-lived and fatal.

Christ . . . didn't come to treat symptoms. He came to get at the very heart of man's disease.

Compassion is not complete in itself, but must be accompanied by inflexible justice and wrath against sin and a desire for holiness.

God's holiness demands that sin be punished—but God's love has provided the way of redemption through Christ.

There is a difference between sin and sins. Sin is the root; sins are the fruit.

Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse.

To a sinner, a righteous person is an oddity and an abnormality. A Christian's goodness is a rebuke to the wicked; his being right-side up is a reflection upon the worldling's inverted position.

Until the Good News of Jesus Christ burst onto the human scene, the word love was understood mostly in terms of seeking one's own advantage. Loving the unlovely was incomprehensible A loving God reaching down to sinful humans was unthinkable.