Quotes About Sin

At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people is never and never will be a goal. Some people strive for that respect or honor. Living a life to just reach for the position and status is vanity and sin.

If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in the living God, he will enable you to pull down the strong holds of sin and Satan, and that work by which he is pleased will prosper in your hands.

The truth is the real Christian experience is truly about repenting every day because there is no Christian that doesn't sin.

Sin is the Monster we love to deny. It is crouching at the door and it wants you, but you must overcome it.

Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden.

Good intentions, regular worship, Bible study, do not prevent blindness. Part of our sinful nature instinctively chooses to see what we want to see and to ignore what we want to ignore.

Why is everybody afraid of going to Heaven? You want to be here with the smog and the sin and bad people and the war? Or do you want to be in Heaven, sitting next to Jesus, you know?

There's this man who lives in the sky, and he has ten things he doesn't want you to do, and you'll burn for a long time if you do them. But he loves you.

Every time we sin in thought, word, or deed, we're essentially saying in that moment that, "I don't need you God. I don't want you God. I like my way better than your way."

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

The sin and the shame and the sorrow, The crime and the want and the woe That are born there in your workshop, No hand can paint, you know.

For many years I thought I was a Christian when in fact I was not. It was only later that I came to see that I had never been a Christian and became one.… What I needed was preaching that would convict me of sin.… But I never heard this. The preaching we had was always based on the assumption that we were all Christians.

The law and will of the devil is written as well in our hearts as in our members, and we run headlong after the devil with full zeal, and the whole swing of all the power we have; as a stone cast up into the air comes down naturally of his own self, with all the violence and swing of his own weight.15

In this fallen state, sinful man is unconscious of his desperate need for the gospel. Only the law can awaken him to the ruin of his spiritual condition.

You will never have a knowledge of sin unless you have a true conception of the holiness of God.

What is clear is that a spiritually dead sinner contributes nothing—except his sin—to His salvation, not even his faith.

Jesus was guilty of nothing. Yet on the cross, the Father treated Him as if He had committed personally every sin ever committed by every individual who would ever believe. Though He was blameless, He faced the full fury of God's wrath, enduring the penalty of sin on behalf of those He came to save. In this way, the sinless Son of God became the perfect substitute for the sinful sons of men.

MATTHEW 18:5-7 "And whoever welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me. 6But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. 7Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!

From their point of view, it seemed to indicate another hacker sin — inefficiency.

Constantine said, 'I am an emperor and a warrior, not a bishop or a martyr. A ruler by necessity must continue to sin until the very last day of his life.' Eusebius tried to object, but Constantine silenced him. He said, 'I have much to do in this life before I am ready to put sinning behind me.

I want you, Daniel, to be with me. Taste the fatal apple; I have held it for eternity. It is humanity's curse, but if you want the knowledge, you can't avoid plucking the forbidden fruit.

J.I. Packer sees society's decline in this way: "The truth is that because we have lost touch with God and his word we have lost the secret both of community (because sin kills neighbor-love) and of our own identity (because at the deepest level we do not know who or what we are, or what we exist for)" (J.I. Packer, Knowing Man. (Westchester, IL: Cornerstone Books, 1978) p. 43).

All that is true about our God, and made true for us through the Gospel of Christ needs to come to life when we are troubled, tempted, or we sin.

The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.