Quotes About Sin

we identify the fear, then we confess it. As we bring our fear before God and own up to it, we do one other thing. We repent. That means to disavow the sin completely, to turn and walk the other way. Then we can look toward the steps that lead us to victory over our fears.

John shows us the way when he writes, "And I heard another voice from heaven saying, 'Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues'" (Rev. 18:4). God calls us to get out of Babylon—that is, to separate

As members of God's kingdom, we're called to conquer the barriers between who we are and who God wants us to be. Our goal is to "come over" from where we are today, and to flourish as the person God made us to be. The obstacles we must overcome fall into three main categories: sin, the world, and the devil.

People who disregard the Bible may someday get what they want—a society where the Bible is no longer read or proclaimed, and where they can freely sin without Scripture confronting their conscience. But they may get more than they bargained for—a society without the moral compass of Scripture will self-destruct from moral decay and decadence.

IF* the existence of sin could be disproved or brought under suspicion, this would be a powerful argument against Christ's mediation. -- David King, 'The Lord's Supper

It is manifest that some remedy for sin was needed. We see this need, not in scripture only, but in fact; in the well-attested & daily witnessed uncontroveted fact, that 'all have sinned & come short of the glory of God' -- David King, The Lord's Supper

I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.

I hope that George doesn't internalize her scare tactics. I want to argue with her, tell her that sins of the flesh is just a control mechanism -- if you demonize a person's pleasure, then you can control his or her life. I can't say how many times this tool has been wielded against me, in a variety of forms. But I see no sin in a kiss. I only see sin in the condemnation.

The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after

I want to argue with her, tell her that sins of the flesh is just a control mechanism-if you demonize a person's pleasure, then you can control his or her life.

I want to argue with her, tell her that "sins of the flesh" is just a control mechanism—if you demonize a person's pleasure, then you can control his or her life. I can't say how many times this tool has been wielded against me, in a variety of forms. But I see no sin in a kiss. I only see sin in the condemnation.

Eso de los pecados de la carne no es más que un mecanismo de control; que si demonizas el placer de las personas eres capaz de controlar su vida

a God without wrath who took man without sin into a kingdom without righteousness through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross.

written without hatred. They are not exploitative attempts to sell soap powder or political candidates; they are parables about the human condition, which, without connection to the divine, is always sin. With thanks to Billy Graham.

The man beside me, apropos of nothing, raises his hand and says that there is 'a story' that man started society because he was 'cast out of a garden because of a sin.' He doesn't attribute this anecdote, leaving it a blind item from a source we might not know. He seems nice enough but potentially dangerous.

The best friend of a nation is he who most faithfully rebukes her for her sins—and he her worst enemy who, under the specious…garb of patriotism seeks to excuse, palliate or defend them.

In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.

Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our kind. Maybe what we've done is create the devil in our own image

Era el cuerpo de mujer que invitaba al hombre a los círculos inferiores del infierno.

Era el cuerpo de mujer lo que arrastraba al hombre a los círculos inferiores del infierno.

A person should be grateful to the Holy One, blessed be He, when afflictions come upon him. Why? Because these afflictions draw a man to God. (Tanhuma, Ki Taitzai, 2) A person should rejoice when afflictions come upon him more so than when good comes to him. Because when good comes to you, sins are not forgiven; but when you receive afflictions [with love], your sins are forgiven. (Sifre, V'etchanan, 32)

But why think the more reasons there were to sin, the smaller the sin was?

Not even the Catholics would forgive them for it (and Catholics give out forgiveness at about the same rate politicians give out promises and whores give out)

Never had she been filled with so much reckless magnanimity. It was one of the discomfiting paradoxes of her adultery: sin had made her a better person.