Quotes About Sin

We need to avoid the ditch on the left, where we don't call sin a sin, as well as the ditch on the right, where we are angry culture warriors battling unbelievers instead of evangelizing them.

Atonement does not always directly help the one we have sinned against. It does not always help anyone at all. Had Boromir run of with Aragorn, he could have been of greater help in tracking the orcs after Merry and Pippin were captured than he was in giving his life to defend them.

There's no question that Laura – in more than one way, for many reasons – danced with the devil and paid a terrible price.

Why do the wicked attract us so? What hint of glamour, hope for material gain, or assumption of fleeting happiness do they radiate, that we can find ourselves so easily, fatally taken in?

We all have sinned and fall short of his holiness. That's why we need him. When he forgives me and comes into my life, he walks with me and gives me peace and hope — ironically enough, he gives me comfort — but I still have rough days. Sometimes they're rougher because I do trust Jesus. But it's not about having good days or bad days; it's about being his.

There is a reason God used the east and west to describe how far he cast your sin from you,' he said. 'If you go north, you can only go north so far until you're finally going south. And you can only go south so far until you're going north. But if you start traveling east, it keeps going east forever, and west just keeps going west. If you think about it, you're never going to go so far west that you're going east. That's how far he cast our sin from us.

Unresolved anger is singled out as a sin that gives the devil an opportunity to derail and defeat us. Demons seize upon it to nurture bitterness and resentment, which wreak havoc in our souls.

Satan and that man is still man even after 1000 years of the righteous, benevolent rule of Christ on earth. Even under the most ideal circumstances imaginable, man is still totally depraved and in desperate need of a new heart by the regeneration of the Spirit of God.

The three facets of the world system in 1 John 2:16 are the lust of the flesh (the desire to satisfy the impulses of the flesh), the lust of the eyes (the desire for things we see), and the boastful pride of life (the desire to promote self). E.M. Bounds graphically portrays the world system that surrounds us.

Satan's greatest deception is to convince people that they don't need Jesus Christ as their Savior from sin. Don't be duped by the devil. Don't fall for this grand deception. Come to Christ and believe in Him if you've never done so.

Ephesians 4:26-27 gives us clues that demons can gain a foothold in our lives by our behavior. "Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, and do not give the devil an opportunity.

Interpreters have imposed on Genesis 3 ideas about sin and disobedience, divine anger, or divine punishment found elsewhere in the Bible.

Rather than a story of sin, Genesis 2–3 explicitly relates a transferal of the knowledge of good and evil from the deity to the humans.

The natural act of tangible gratitude to God's grace is to love Him back—to receive His love in the form of forgiveness of our sins—but to choose diligence in overcoming those sins as a loving statement of gratefulness.

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14)

Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.

Remember what the Bible says: He who is without sin, cast the first rock. And I shall smoketh it.

As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.

That's not what I'm asking. I'm asking, what's your vice and what brand of trouble does it lead to?

I never knew anyone actually buy cakes when they were hot ...

If you are in Christ, you are fully and completely forgiven for all your sin-past, present and future.

If I should ever decide in the future to discuss my deep Christian beliefs and condemnation and sinfulness, I would use another forum besides Playboy.

The goal is to rise spiritually, not simply to avoid sin.

Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus.