Quotes About Sin

there's one thing you'll never be delivered from. It's a ten-letter word called temptation!

Though you may not see any signs of sexual sin or weights, you still need to see Jesus on a regular basis for a checkup. P.46

If you have a sin problem you don't run from the church, you run into it. p.73

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong.

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.

When you accustom people to believe that priests and clergy can forgive sins... you will have sins in abundance

2:6.8 The love of God saves the sinner; the law of God destroys the sin.

much of what the church calls sin is simply being human.

These are things," Trudi's father told her long before she was old enough for confession, "that the church calls sins, but they are part of being human. And those we need to embrace. The most important thing--" He paused. "--is to be kind.

Reverend Olumide sits down in the chair facing me. Young man, what do you mean by this, this is a serious thing to say, we all need to be saved.

When you know what God has done for you, the power and the tyranny of sin is gone and the radiant, unspeakable emancipation of the indwelling Christ has come, and when you see men and women who should be princes and princesses with God bound up by the show of things - oh, you begin to understand what the Apostle meant when he said he wished himself accursed from Christ that men might be saved!

How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

You know, I've often wondered. It's pretty clear what they were up to in Sodom, but what do you suppose the sin of Gomorrah was?' Carol asked.

There was nothing more unfair in the world than when something, be it tree or man, lived on to uselessness, to the point when it became a burden; that of the multitude of sins let loose upon the world to be prayed away and redeemed, this was the only one that was unbearable. The tree at least would fall, rot, and fertilize the earth. But man? Is he at least good for that? Then why bear old age if it brings nothing but discomfort and suffering?

an unknown sin needs all the more expiation.

A man must live with sin, or he is no man

They're clinking glasses and knocking it back to their hearts' content. Tastes so good they can't stop. Ain't you heard the old saying: 'Money comes from God and the Devil collects it?' Well, the Devil's collecting his share now.

If the serpent was actually Satan, a fallen angel, then why were serpents punished rather than Satan himself? (Satan doesn't crawl around on his belly in later stories.)

all have sinned. And we are all saved by grace. It is a gift from God, lest any one of us should boast and take credit for His work. God lets no man instruct Him on who to bestow His grace upon. He is sovereign. "I'm ready to meet Jesus when He returns.

The only sins are violations of love.

Good men and bad men alike are capable of weakness. The difference is simply that a bad man will be proud all his life of one good deed – while an honest man is hardly aware of his good acts, but remembers a single sin for years on end.

The greater our understanding of the Bible's teaching about the depth of human sin, the less we are likely to be shocked by the revelations of our friends' struggles, and the more we will be willing to be open with them about our own. From

The truth is that our minds are corrupted by sin. Not just a little bit, but deeply, down to the depths as far as we can perceive, and beyond. And not just grossly, so that it is easy to figure out where we went wrong, but subtly, delicately, invisibly. If we think we know and appreciate how far we have gone wrong, we are still deceiving ourselves at this point also.

But our deepest difficulties cannot be resolved merely on a narrowly intellectual plane. Our deepest difficulty is sin, rebellion against God. We have desires in our hearts that resist the Bible's views and what God has to say. We want to be our own master.