Quotes About Sin

He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.

The sins of others are filthy smelly dung; our own sins have the golden sparkle and aroma of a fine ale.

So runs the genealogy of many another sin: idleness is usually the grandfather of the crime, whatever the father might be.

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

What we call real estate — the solid ground to build a house on — is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests. A man will commit almost any wrong — he will heap up an immense pile of wickedness, as hard as granite, and which will weigh as heavily upon his soul, to eternal ages — only to build a great, gloomy, dark-chambered mansion, for himself to die in, and for his posterity to be miserable in.

Help us for Christ's sake to have our eyes open to sin, so that we shall always know when we are not pleasing Thee.

upon the world. She understood that perhaps even up to the very day before, they had most of them been merry, careless boys; but now they were men, made so in a night by the horrible sin that had brought about this thing called War.

Quando o cristão bota a corda no pescoço, o diabo se pendura nos ombros dele.

Evangelical preaching was also characterized by the extemporaneous interlacing of biblical passages with descriptive evangelical terminology that was designed to awaken people emotionally to their sins and cause them to tremble, shed tears, and fall to the ground.

Romans has been called the "systematic theology" of the New Testament, and Paul began by exploring the total depravity of humankind in 1:18–3:20.

The universal depravity of humankind demands judgment (1:18–3:20). However, there is hope, and it is the result of the grace and righteousness of God (3:21), who provides salvation by sending his Son to be the atoning sacrifice and make justification for sins possible (3:24–26).

There is no man made in the image of God and living in God's world, whatever God's attitude toward him and his own feelings about Christ, who does not know the living and true God, his Creator. All men have the requisite knowledge of God to make them eternally responsible before Him; this was true in the Garden, and it does not cease to be true after the fall. Sin or no sin, special revelation or no special revelation, all men inescapably know their God.

John Murray wrote: The least of God's commandments, if they bind us, bind others. We must resist the virulent poison of individualism which tolerates in others the indifference and disobedience which we cannot justify in ourselves…. The moment we become complacent to the sins of others then we have begun to relax our own grip on the sanctity of the commandments of God, and we are on the way to condoning the same sin in ourselves

The law does not save a man, but it does show him why he needs to be saved and how he is to walk after he is saved.

1Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us

Satan causes us to wallow in unnamed guilt, but God's conviction is focused and meant to lead us to restoration.

Tony nodded. "Yeah, like, 'Who could have committed such an egregious sin? Perhaps someone who feels cast out, who needs help and forgiveness.' " He waved his arms over his head as he imitated Jade.

God took on our humanity, our sin, and the just punishment that sin deserves, dying a God-forsaken, hellish death on the cross, because only this could rescue us from our self-chosen destruction. God expresses unsurpassable love for us and ascribes unsurpassable worth to us by sacrificing the One who has unsurpassable value on our behalf!

Father George Paulsen said to me, "Most of us have been in the same boat. Most of us find that the sins of our days are the sins of our lives. And the worst thing we can do is let our shame or our pride keep us from asking forgiveness every time we must." And then he said, "The fact that Jesus will always forgive you finally becomes the prod. One day, you realize that you are tired of this confession, tired of this sin; on that day, you'll decide you truly want it gone.

Lately I've had to redefine the word "knowledge" to a knowledge that cannot know anything. I'm dealing not in careless absurdities here but in the way material reality is unobservable and implicit order can be found in paradox. Perhaps despair is the only human sin. Who am I to feel disappointment? Is a bird disappointed in the sky

Tutte le stelle muoiono per collisione esterna o per esplosione a lungo covata interna. Ma questo nostro globo muore perché i suoi abitanti preferiscono alla sua vita limitata (che pur calcolabile in miliardi di anni li ossessiona) l'illimitato della propria peccabilità. Solo un Dio che tenesse all'ordine dell'universo li potrebbe fermare.

Si va avanti a spintoni e a ricatti... Il piacere come dovere. Il peccato come necessità. La rosa da cogliere come obbligo di pungersi. La gioia di volare come impegno di sfracellarsi. Il frutto da mordere come precetto di lasciarci la mano.

First, we must ask in what relation the conceptions of sin and death stand to one another in Irenæus. We have already noted the assertion that he, in common with other Eastern theologians, places relatively little emphasis on sin, because he regards salvation as a bestowal of life rather than of forgiveness, and as a victory over mortality rather than over sin.

We have also here the explanation of his constant emphasis on salvation as a bestowal of Life. Life means for him primarily fellowship with God, the partaking of the life of God, and therefore also a deliverance from sin.