Quotes About Sin

Only the Holy Spirit can open our eyes. Only He can convict us of the depth of our sin, and only He can convince us of the truth of the Gospel.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ is not anti-intellectual. It demands the use of [the] mind, but the mind is affected by sin.

Sin also affects the conscience, until one becomes slow to detect the approach of sin.

The Bible does not teach that sin is completely eradicated from the Christian in this life, but it does teach that sin shall no longer reign over you.

The Bible teaches that man's chief problem is spiritual.

Uncontrolled anger is a devastating sin, and no one is exempt from its havoc. It shatters friendships and destroys marriages; it causes abuse in families and discord in business; it breeds violence in the community and war between nations. Its recoil, like that of a high-powered rifle, often hurts the one who wields it as well as its target. Anger makes us lash out at others, destroying relationships and revealing our true nature.

Before Satan there was no sin, and before sin there was no pain.

Can the sin of one or a few cause suffering for many? The answer, of course, is yes, for no sin is isolated in the life of the sinner. It spreads like poison gas into every available crevice.

The human race is called on throughout the Bible to repent of sin and return to God.

If the human race would turn from its evil ways and return to God, putting behind its sins of disobedience, idolatry, pride, greed, and belligerence, and all the various aberrations that lead to war, the possibility of peace exists.

The converted person will love the good he once hated, and hate the sin he once loved.

Philosophically, war is an extension of man's struggle with sin and evil in the world.

We don't live in an ideal world, but in a world dominated by sinful, selfish desires.

If we in the church want a cause to fight, let's fight sin. Let's reveal its hideousness. Let's show that Jeremiah was correct when e said: "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked" [Jeremiah 17:9 NKJV].

The Bible teaches that Satan is the author of sin. Sin is the reason we have afflictions, including death. All of our problems and our suffering are a result of man's rebellion against God. But God has provided a rescue in His Son.

While God's will is that every marriage will endure, man's sin has poisoned many relationships.

We act as if it doesn't matter how we live or what we think or say. We have moved in with the world, and we have allowed the world to penetrate the way we live. So the things that we used to call sin no longer seem to be sin to us.

God longs for men to be saved. God is at work to get men to stop their downward plunge in sin.

We make a mockery of God's forgiveness when we deliberately engage in sin because we think He will forgive it later.

Jesus did not die on the cross for people's sin so that we would believe in Heaven—but that we would believe in Him. Heaven does not save souls . . . it collects them.

The unpardonable sin involves the total and irrevocable rejection of Jesus Christ.

Sin has tarnished every area of life, and [Christ] wants to erase its stain everywhere.

God's grace—His goodness and love toward us in spite of our sin—is the wellspring of our salvation.

The Bible] warns us about "the little foxes, that spoil the vines" [Song of Solomon 2:15 KJV]. This is a picture of the way "little" sins can destroy our fruitfulness for the Lord.