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Quotes About Sin

The difference between true and false repentance lies in this: the man who truly repents cries out against his heart; but the other, as Eve, against the serpent, or something else.
~ John Bunyan
Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
~ Jonathan Edwards
The Bible warns us clearly that we must not attack men of God no matter how sinful they may have become or wicked in our eyes.
~ Benny Hinn
Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find.
~ Fulton J. Sheen
The greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible.
~ J. Vernon McGee
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
~ Saint Augustine
Man's thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. But God's thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God's purpose for redemption is glory, glory, glory.
~ Watchman Nee
The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to vomit its impurities upon the earth.
~ John Vianney
The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin.
~ Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.
~ Henri Matisse
Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.
~ Carrie Nation
I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.
~ Ivan Turgenev
Since man's natural instincts lead him to sin, all men are sinners; and all sinners go to hell. If everyone goes to hell, then you will meet all your friends there.
~ Anton Szandor LaVey
It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is impossible to receive forgiveness before confessing his trespasses.
~ Ignatius of Antioch
I do not understand how a man can be a true believer, in whom sin is not the greatest burden, sorrow and trouble.
~ John Owen
All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99
~ Lord Byron
Man's laws cannot make moral what God has declared immoral
~ Dallin H. Oaks
Unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering.
~ Jonathan Edwards
Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.
~ C. S. Lewis
A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent.
~ C. S. Lewis
Give me one hundred men who love only God with all their heart and hate only sin with all their heart and we will shake the gates of hell and bring in the kingdom of God in one generation.
~ John Wesley
Love every man in spite of his falling into sin. Never mind the sins, but remember that the foundation of the man is the same - the image of God.
~ John of Kronstadt
It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.
~ Abu Bakr
There is no sin nor wrong that gives man such a foretaste of Hell in this life as anger and impatience.
~ St. Catherine of Siena