Quotes About Sin

Only the blood of Jesus Christ can cleanse us of sin. For this reason, we should strive to love Him with all our hearts.

all possible kinds of mortification, if they were void of the love of GOD, could not efface a single sin.

Brother Lawrence called the practice of the presence of God the easiest and shortest way to attain Christian perfection and to be protected from sin.

That all possible kinds of mortification, if they were void of the love of GOD, could not efface a single sin. That we ought, without anxiety, to expect the pardon of our sins from the Blood of JESUS CHRIST, only endeavoring to love Him with all our hearts. That GOD seemed to have granted the greatest favors to the greatest sinners, as more signal monuments of his mercy.

The Savior asks us to repent not just to repay him for paying our debt to justice, but also to induce us to undergo the personal development that will purify our very nature. The 'natural man' will remain an enemy to God forever—even after paying for his own sins—unless he also 'becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord.' (Mosiah 3:19.)

Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.

True" scientists consider anthropomorphism to be something of a mortal sin and ostracize scientists who knowingly employ it in their work.

As Adam brought death, so Christ brought life; as Adam is the father of mortality, so Christ is the father of immortality.

For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive

For the ones who had a notion, A notion deep inside, That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive I wanna find one face that ain't looking through me I wanna find one place, I wanna spit in the face of these badlands

The way I see it, we ate the apple and Adam, Eve, the rebel Jesus in all his glory and Satan are all part of God's plan to make men and women out of us, to give us the precious gifts of earth, dirt, sweat, blood, sex, sin, goodness, freedom, captivity, love, fear, life and death . . . our humanity and a world of our own.

There is a certain threshold, an intensity of sin and cynicism, beyond which no society can survive.…

Homicide is not a sin. It is sometimes a necessary violence on resistant and ossified forms of existence which have ceased to be amusing. In the interests of an important and fascinating experiment, it can even become meritorious. Here is the starting point of a new apologia for sadism.

Matter is the most passive and most defenseless essence in cosmos. Anyone can mold it and shape it; it obeys everybody. All attempts at organizing matter are transient and temporary, easy to reverse and to dissolve. There is no evil in reducing life to other and newer forms. Homicide is not a sin.

Conscious that each generation had its own particular questions and aware, from his own experience, that not every intellectual question is a moral dodge to avoid responsibility for sin, Schaeffer argued that there was a real need for somebody to provide an answer.

Schaeffer argues that this move—whereby mankind retained his rationalism but at the expense of rationality—was made out of desperation, but that this is characteristic of sinful man.

Schaeffer called upon all Christians studying sociology, psychology, or ethics to resist the modern concept that all sin can be explained merely on the basis of conditioning.

There is a natural human inclination to take advantage of grace in order to excuse sin.

Grace not only rescues individuals from their personal sin; it also creates a new community where the barriers of pretense and pride have been razed because of our mutual dependence on Christ.

Faith that God has made us new, has made us his, and has made us able are essential before we will experience God's victory over compelling and compulsive sin.

God says that despite knowing that sin makes you impure before him, and that to cleanse you he would have to sacrifice his Son, and to equip you he would have to provide his Spirit, nonetheless it gives him pleasure to reveal to you the mystery of Jesus. When there was no goodness or ability in us, God loved us and enabled us to know his love. This too is a precious mystery that even a child can know.

Sin and Satan deceive our hearts with lies that God is distant. His hand of discipline declares he is never nearer.

Our dependence on Christ's justifying work to forgive our sins does not cease when we become Christians.

Sin gains power over us not by its indomitable force but by our divided heart.