Quotes About Sin

The great sin of the average Christian is ignorance of the word of God.

The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.

Whoever sees in himself the traces of hatred toward any man on account of any kind of sin is completely foreign to the love of God. For love toward God does not at all tolerate hatred for man.

An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.

There is no sin that God cannot pardon. All we need to do is ask for forgiveness

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

God does not punish us for our sins but by them.

I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.

If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.

This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.

If God and his grace do not rule us, sin and Satan will have possession of us.

Sometimes when I've gone out and murdered somebody I go and confess and stuff. And then God loves me again.

God's wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.

If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God.

When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.

Look whether it be indifferently, as well for sins secret as open, what you find to be your best cordials to comfort you, whether God's Word, or natural means.

When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.

It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.

The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst.

I want to separate sin from crime. You may have to ask forgiveness for your sins from God, but not from the Minister of Justice. There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.

Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God.

The heart of all idolatry in the Bible is the de-godding of God.