Quotes About Sin

A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.

Feast of the Holy Cross Does not every man feel, that there is corruption enough within him to drive him to the commission of the greatest enormities, and eternally to destroy his soul?

When men talk of a little hell it's because they think they have only a little sin and believe in a little Savior.

It's Godlike to love man - even in his sin - merely because he's man.

This is the essential evil of vice: it debases a man.

In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.

When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.

For the devil does not allow a single bad habit to disappear and the very weakness of our mortal nature destroys the virtues in us.

by committing a mortal sin, instead of seeking to please God, it prefers to gratify the devil, the prince of darkness, and so comes to share his blackness.

Every sin (past, present, and future) we have committed

Many symptoms of systemic sin sickness boil to the surface and erupt for all to see between the time a society determines to turn its back on God and the time a people become so wicked that God gives up pleading for them to repent because their hearts and minds can't be turned again to Him. It is incumbent upon Christians, who have the capability to discern the signs pointing to how near is the time when God's judgment must fall, to be watchmen on the wall.

The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it?"50

After all, no one is comfortable being told that he or she is a sinner. In our marketing-oriented churches, making people comfortable and happy can easily become the primary thing.

Guilt drives you away from God, not toward Him.

a taint on our purity is considered among us something more terrible than any punishment and any death.

I know there's evil in the world, and there always has been. But you don't need to believe in Satan or demons to explain it. Human beings are perfectly capable of evil all by themselves.

I know that all that multitude of sins would disappear in an instant, even as a drop of water cast into a flaming furnace.

We do some of our best work in evangelism when we make sure people understand the wrath of God against them, that their plight is desperate because God is angry. The problem of unreached and unengaged peoples is not that they don't have the gospel - that's the solution. Their plight is that they face a God who is rightly angry with them because of their sin. ("Cross", p. 35)

Conversion is the radical turn from an enslaved life of pursuing sin to a free life of pursuing and worshiping God. Conversion is a change of life, not merely a decision.

Resolved, To act, in all respects, both speaking and doing, as if nobody had been so vile as I, and as if I had committed the same sins, or had the same infirmities or failings, as others, and that I will let the knowledge of their failings promote nothing but shame in myself, and prove only an occasion of my confessing my own sins and misery to God.

the love of money is the root of all evils." - John de Alençon, Pg, 64

He who carries out one good deed acquires one advocate in his own behalf, and he who commits one transgression acquires one accuser against himself. Repentance and good works are like a shield against calamity.

j'ai lu une phrase: pouvez-vous me dire si elle provient du Talmud? Tu ne seras pas puni pour les pêchés commis, mais pour touts les bons moments que tu n'as pas vécus

Until a child is one year old it is incapable of sin.