Quotes About Sin

Of course our prayers are limited by our sin. If you want powerful prayers, get the sin out of your life.

Whatever isn't born out of deep confidence in God is sin. That includes our personality and our approach to life.

History is riddled with blood and sin.

There is hope of freedom because of what Christ has done. Now you have an option. But you do have to stop presenting yourself over to sin as best you can. Your choices matter. You need to renounce the ways you have presented yourself to sin, and represent yourself to Christ.

Confusing the weight of sins actually hurts our ability to resist temptation.

You must understand: the unholy trinity Scripture names as the world, our flesh, and the evil one conspire to undermine your character.

you must cling to is that you have died with Christ in the cross; sin no longer has to rule over you. You have a choice!

what you must cling to is that you have died with Christ in the cross; sin no longer has to rule over you. You have a choice!

All of us in the Congress are made fully aware of the importance of party unity (what sins have been committed in that name!)

Henry knew sin was a challenge to life; not an act of unreason, but an act of courage and determination.

Murder is as fashionable a crime as a man can be guilty of.

The Buddha promised release from something we all understand: suffering. By contrast, no one can say what was the original sin, and no one understands how the suffering of Christ can redeem it.

How often would I have the chance to see a pretty girl bathing? I could recall no specific prohibition from the church or the Scriptures, though I knew it was wrong. But maybe it wasn't terribly sinful.

I needed forgiveness, because there were lots of sins in my past. I needed peace, because I'd been at war my entire life. I needed love, because I hated everybody. I needed strength, because deep inside I knew how weak I was. I needed happiness, because I'd been miserable for so long.

I often tell my congregation and our national television audience that church membership will not save you, denominations will not save you, ritual will not save you, and singing "Amazing Grace" at the top of your lungs will not save you. And by all means, sitting in church will not guarantee immunity from satanic attack. Salvation only comes through faith in Christ. When you confess and forsake your sins, you are cleansed by the shed blood of Jesus.

The world then is the enemy of our souls; first, because, however innocent its pleasures, and praiseworthy its pursuits may be, they are likely to engross us, unless we are on our guard: and secondly, because in all its best pleasures, and noblest pursuits, the seeds of sin have been sown; an enemy hath done this; so that it is most difficult to enjoy the good without partaking of the evil also.

If unity lies in the Apostolical succession, an act of schism is from the nature of the case impossible; for as no one can reverse his parentage, so no Church can undo the fact that its clergy have come by lineal descent from the Apostles. Either there is no such sin as schism, or unity does not lie in the Episcopal form or in the Episcopal ordination.

Some wanted to know where they could find girls, wanted us to get Negro girls for them. We learned to spot these from the moment they sat down, for they were immediately friendly and treated us with the warmth and courtesy of equals. I mentioned this to Sterling. Yeah, when they want to sin, they're very democratic, he said.

If pride is a sin ... moral pride is the greatest sin.

There is no Purgatory-that's a catholic invention. There's life on earth, There's heaven-and there's hell

Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.

The thing about sin, Jack, is that some people think it's very important and other people don't even believe it exists.

If pride was a sin, thought Dr. Larch, the greatest sin was moral pride. He

Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be a sin to know? Can it be death?