Quotes About Sin

Do you think God will ever forgive me for my sins?" I would say: "Forgiveness already exists in the nature of God; it is already there. God has already forgiven you, for God is forgiveness itself. 'To err is human, and to forgive divine.' But can you truly forgive yourself? That's the real question.

All who eat swine's flesh are of the devil; and just as certain as he eats it, he will tell a lie in less than half an hour. If you eat a piece of pork, it will go crooked through you, and the Holy Ghost will not stay in you, but one or the other must leave the house pretty soon. The pork will be as crooked in you as ram's horns, and as great a nuisance as the hogs in the street.

There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever. There will be a reckoning yet. . . there's a day coming that will burn as an oven. It may be sooner or it may be later, but it's a coming as sure as the Lord is just.

There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever. There will be a reckoning yet—yes, Epps, there's a day coming that will burn as an oven. It may be sooner or it may be later, but it's a coming as sure as the Lord is just.

There's a sin, a fearful sin, resting on this nation, that will not go unpunished forever.

How can that be? A great sin – a mortal sin – for which I must die and go to hell – but it made me free! One moment I was free! How is that, Father? [...] And that other sin – that other sin – that sin of love – That's all I ever knew of Heaven – heaven on earth! How can that be – a sin – a mortal sin – all I know of heaven?

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

Knowing the sin in this world's grandest depravity.

How much soul can include the self-salvation of sin?

We should all have the freedom to die with majesty in an unworthy life which was subjected to sin and vanity.

Sin is the result of deep and unmet needs.

We make no apology then for raising our voices loud to a world that is ripening in sin the lord has said," Say nothing but repentance unto this generation; The adversary is subtle, cunning, he knows that he cannot induce good men and women immediately to do major evils so he moves slyly, whispering half truths until he has his intended victims following him finally he clamps his chains upon them and fetters them tight, and then he laughs at their discomfiture and their misery.

Jesus perfected his life and became our Christ. Priceless blood of a god was shed, and he became our Savior; his perfected life was given, and he became our Redeemer; his atonement for us made possible our return to our Heavenly Father, and yet how thoughtless, how unappreciative are most beneficiaries! Ingratitude is a sin of the ages.

If all the people in the world were to accept homosexuality, the practice would still be a deep, dark sin.

If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.

If you've lived a bad life, they send you to Hell. But if you've been truly wicked, they give you a tour of Heaven first...

Sin and virtue are a game of resistance we play with God in His efforts to draw us towards perfection.

Love the sinner and hate the sin.

Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth.

Carnal lust rules where there is no love of God.

I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.

And thus the law is indeed good, because it is prohibition of sin, and death is evil because it is the wages of sin; but as wicked men make an evil use not only of evil, but also of good things, so the righteous make a good use not only of good, but also of evil things. Whence it comes to pass that the wicked make an ill use of the law, though the law is good; and that the good die well, though death is an evil.

Thus, by the unutterable mercy of God, even the very punishment of wickedness has become the armor of virtue, and the penalty of the sinner becomes the reward of the righteous.

The wicked have told me of delights, but not such as Thy law, O Lord.