Quotes About Sin

Oh,Wert not gold and women, there would be no damnation

The Christian mythologists tell us that Christ died for the sins of the world, and that he came on Purpose to die. Would it not then have been the same if he had died of a fever or of the small pox, of old age, or of anything else?

Just as the sin of Adam was imputed to all people, so also the obedience of Christ has been imputed to believers. Adam

Adam had unleashed a monster into the world.

Faith doesn't transport us to paradise immediately because we still struggle with sin. "Thus a Christian man is righteous and a sinner at the same time, holy and profane, an enemy of God and a child of God.

The law, which preceded Christ's coming, revealed the power and depth of human sin, and thus the greatness of the redemption accomplished in Christ Jesus is set in bold relief.

if we suppose that God, being supremely powerful, supremely wise, and supremely loving, can achieve, and will settle for nothing less than, perfect justice, then we must also suppose that he will settle for nothing less than a full atonement for sin—something that will actually make up for, or cancel out, sin; and as we have seen, punishment (in and of itself) has no power to do that.

Even the Augustinians, I would note, seem prepared to acknowledge this much: because God has forgiven us and has commanded us to forgive others, we have an obligation to forgive; we have no right, that is, not to forgive. But why , I would ask of them, has God commanded us to forgive others? Is it not precisely because, given the Christian view of the world, forgiveness is the just and proper response to sin? Is it not because the sinner, who yet retains the image of God, deserves forgiveness?

As the Augustinians see it, God opposes sin enough to punish it, but not enough to destroy it altogether; instead of destroying sin altogether, he merely confines it to a specially prepared region of his creation, a region known as hell, where he keeps it alive for an eternity. According to our alternative picture, however, God forgives sin for this very reason: in no other way could he oppose it with his entire being.

Love can forbear, and Love can forgive...but Love can never be reconciled to an unlovely object... He can never therefore be reconciled to your sin, because sin itself is incapable of being altered; but He may be reconciled to your person because that may be restored and Loved.

The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.

Until sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

The more bitterness we taste in sin, the more sweetness we shall taste in Christ.

Better is that sin which humbles me, than that duty which makes me proud.

The mercies of God make a sinner proud, but a saint humble.

Our sins should humble us, but they must not discourage us from coming to Christ.

Either sin must drown in the tears of repentance—or the soul must burn in hell.

God can turn stones into bread, and a sinner can turn bread into stones; the bread of life into the stone of stumbling.

A pagan sins less than a baptised renegade.

The Nature of True Repentance, Part 1 I shall next show what Gospel repentance is. Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed. For a further amplification, know that repentance is a spiritual medicine made up of six special ingredients: 1. Sight of sin 2. Sorrow for sin 3. Confession of sin 4. Shame for sin 5. Hatred for sin 6. Turning from sin If any one is left out, it loses its virtue.

There are no sins God's people are more subject to than unbelief and impatience.

repentance is of such importance, that there is no being saved without it.

Godly sorrow goes deep, like a vein which bleeds inwardly. The heart bleeds for sin: "they were pricked in their heart" (Act 2:37). As the heart bears a chief part in sinning, so it must in sorrowing.

It [repentance] is not so much to endear us to Christ as to endear Christ to us. Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.