Quotes About Sin

it. To be out from under the controlling influence of sin is to be free. True liberation is found apart from sin; it is liberation from sin—when sin no longer controls our lives. When we are living licentiously or obsessed with the pursuit of money or any other idolatrous object, we are in bondage. Christianity is not our slave master; sin is.

If we don't get to the roots of our sins, we will just keep confessing the same old things unproductively forever.

Since it is so difficult in the concrete to judge what is and is not "mortal sin," and who is and is not subjectively guilty of it, we should choose pastorally not to make that judgment except in extreme and obvious cases. Then Eucharist would be recognized again as what it really is: not just the "bread of angels," but on this earth the strengthening food and sacrament of sinners.

It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.

The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.

God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.

It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience to authority not violation of integrity.

Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart."

When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.

It is in our forgiveness of other people's sins against us that we reveal the fact that we have been truly forgiven by God.

Holiness is not merely a feeling, state of mind, or good intention. It involves practical separation from sin and real separation unto God.

Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.

No amount of rationalizing can change God's laws. No amount of fashion designing can turn immodesty into virtue, and no amount of popularity can change sin into righteousness.

Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!

If loving God with all our heart and soul and might is the greatest commandment, then it follows that not loving Him that way is the greatest sin.

The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God.

There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary, and by asking her assistance.

Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ.

What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.

Pride causes us to care more about what our non-Christian friends think of us than what God will do to them in their sin.

Man's will is free to follow his inclinations, but fallen man's inclinations are always and invariably away from God.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.