Quotes About Sin

Except a man fear the Lord, he is unable to renounce sin.

Nothing can damn a man but his own righteousness; nothing can save him but the righteousness of Christ.

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

No man taketh away sins (which the law, though holy, just and good, could not take away), but He in whom there is no sin.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God.

Satan can make men dance upon the brink of hell as though they were on the verge of heaven.

It appertaineth to the true God alone to be able to loose men from their sins.

Riches are a cause of evil, not because, of themselves, they do any evil, but because they goad men on to evil.

Sin had no sooner come into the world than God came in grace seeking the sinner, and so from the first question, 'Adam, where art thou?' on to the incarnation, God has been speaking to man.

The will of man without grace is not free, but is enslaved, and that too with its own consent.

Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.

A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.

When Eve upon the first of Men The apple press'd with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant!

But for disloyalty to her husband a wife is censured among men, and ,in her next life she is born in the womb of a jackal and tormented by diseases, the punishment of her sin.

If there be a man before me who says that the wrath of God is too heavy a punishment for his little sin, I ask him, if the sin be little, why does he not give it up?

Christ is at once the spotless descent of God into men and the sinless ascent of man into God, and the Holy Spirit is the Agent by whom this is accomplished.

No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his interest that there should be none to call him to account.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)

The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.

Let no man pretend to fear sin that does not fear temptation also! These two are too closely united to be separated. He does not truly hate the fruit who delights in the root.

A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.