Quotes About Sin

The purpose of confessing our sins is not to render us miserable by simply reminding us what great sinners we are. It is to remind us of what a great Savior we have.

To put it in the contemporary vernacular, Baal and Asherah were in effect the patron saints of sex and guns and rock 'n' roll, promising to deliver a potent mixture of satisfaction to the desires for power, success, and pleasure. This

Niebuhr's classic description of liberal theology, they picture "a God without wrath, who brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment, through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross.

We may need to learn how to lament and weep before the Lord and recognize our sins and those of our fellow Christians that have caused God to depart from our midst. In the midst of the pain of our lamentation, however, our confidence may yet be placed in God's faithfulness. As

As Richard Lovelace puts it: We may need to challenge more, and comfort less, in our evangelism and discipleship. We need to make it harder for people to retain assurance of salvation when they move into serious sin. . . . We need to tell some persons who think they have gotten saved to get lost. The Puritans were biblically realistic about this; we have become sloppy and sentimental in promoting assurance under any circumstances.32

We need to learn from the past how to preach for deep heart conviction of sin, until people cry out in our churches also, "What must I do to be saved?

Our hearts are, in Calvin's vivid image, factories that mass-produce idols.

One of the dangers against which I warn aspiring preachers in our seminary is that of preaching against all the sins with which no one in their congregation struggles. It is relatively easy to warn the heterosexuals about the dangers of homosexuality, the teetotaler about the snare of alcoholism, the politically conservative about the hazards of liberalism, the rigidly orthodox about the perils of false teaching. All

The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind." (Marco)

Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.

Our new way of life is outside of the law of sin and death because inside and out I am hid in Christ. I live in the law of liberty which has made me free.

Horror is what happens when evil overtakes the heart

Nothing in the world tasted as good for breakfast as stolen rolls with some butter and jam and a mug of milky coffee. Nothing tasted better than a venial sin.

Bad Men Do What Good Men

When an innocent man suddenly dies, God laughs. God gave the world to the wicked. He made all the judges blind, And if God didn't do it, who did? If I smile and try to forget my pain, All my suffering comes back to haunt me; I know that God does hold me guilty. Since I am held guilty, why should I bother? No soap can wash away my sins.

Sin and evil weren't black – he'd argued the point with a priest – but were greyly anonymous.

Saying of the Prophet Accusations Anyone reviling a brother for a sin will not himself die before committing it.

Dicho del Profeta Quienquiera que injurie a su hermano por un pecado, no morirá antes de haberlo cometido él mismo

You make me a sinner if you stop me giving you hospitality.

Me conviertes en un pecador si me impides darte hospitalidad.

Desde el comienzo, desde la edad de Adán hasta la época de las monarquías: del poderoso, perdón; del pobre, pecados.

They say he goes to it with every stable boy and every young buck at the court, and where will that get him when all know it is a sin in the eyes of the Lord, and one day the devil will stick a red-hot poker up his nether parts for all damnation.

To me the ultimate sin was refusing to listen to reason.

The Bible says a man's heart is desperately wicked, and who can know it? We're all capable of more evil than we realize.