Quotes About Sin

Repetition of a sin is no reason to abandon confession.

We sin not because we do not love Christ at all but because we don't love him above all.

We do not proclaim grace so that anyone will make light of sin or of our duty to resist it. We herald God's amazing mercy in order to join with the Spirit in stirring up in his people such a love for God that, when the day of evil comes, they will gladly put on the full armor he provides. Then, despite the hardships and the pain God's people may face in the battle, they will stand strong in the power of his might.

While we see our sin, God chooses to gaze upon his Son in us.

God wants us to understand the true malignancy of our sin—the problem is too severe to be remedied by our goodness.

False repentance is less concerned with the spiritual contamination of sin than it is with the personal consequences of sin. True repentance is chiefly concerned with the wrong we have done to our Savior and to others. Repentance of the first kind is self-preoccupied; true repentance is a selfless seeking of spiritual fellowship and renewal. False repentance flees correction; true repentance seeks it.

I'm sure you have seen corruption spreading like a disease... but it isn't really an infection. No one becomes corrupt because of the sins of another. They cannot catch it by mere exposure or by birth. All people choose for themselves.

As the oil is in the olive, so is the teshuvah, repentance, hidden within sin.

A falsehood, which may be pardoned if it is to save another, is black sin if used by a coward to save himself.

Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.

The pure in heart, who fear to sin, The good, kindly in word and deed? These are the beings in the world Whose nature should be called divine.

If I look narrowly into the best of what I do now, I still see sin, new sin, mixing itself with the best of that I do; so that now I am forced to conclude that, notwithstanding my former fond conceits of myself and duties, I have committed sin enough in one duty to send me to hell, though my former life had been faultless.

What is best let alone, that accursed thing is not always what least allures.

And heaved and heaved, still unrestingly heaved the black sea, as if its vast tides were a conscience; and the great mundane soul were in anguish and remorse for the long sin and suffering it had bred.

Neste mundo, o pecado que paga a passagem pode viajar tranquilamente e sem passaporte, enquanto que a virtude em um pobre é detida em todas as fronteiras.

En este mundo, compañeros, el Pecado, si paga el viaje, puede ir libremente, y sin pasaporte, mientras que la Virtud, si es pobre, es detenida en todas las fronteras.

this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

Tell a good man that he is free to commit murder, — will he murder? Tell a murderer that at the peril of his soul he indulges in murderous thoughts, — will that make him a saint?

Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.

Love is the first fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22; cf. Rom. 15:30; Col. 1:8). Love therefore explains what it means to be in Christ, to be in the Spirit, to be in the faith. In it is realized the freedom from sin, to which believers have been called in Christ (Gal. 5:13); in it the demand of the law is fulfilled, which has become possible by the Spirit (Rom. 13:10; cf. Rom. 8:4); it is the content of the law of Christ (Gal. 6:2).

The sins of good men are greater than the sins of bad men. One lie from a truthful man is more hurtful than all the lies of a liar. The sins of a man after God's own heart have done more harm than all the crimes of all the Pagan emperors.

Sin spreads misery around it only when there is ground ready for the bad seed.

Lo, God! I am Thy handiwork. I have sinned and have done great evil, yet I am still Thy handiwork, who hath made me what I am. So, though I may not undo that which I have done, yet I may, with Thy aid, do better hereafter than I have done heretofore.

Tolkien believed devoutly that there had once been an Eden on earth, and that man's original sin and subsequent dethronement were responsible for the ills of the world; but his elves, though capable of sin and error, have not 'fallen' in the theological sense, and so are able to achieve much beyond the powers of men. They