Quotes About Sin

Simply stated, there is not a single verse anywhere in the Bible that pronounces us already forgiven for our future sins (meaning, sins we have not yet committed). Not one verse. Nowhere. Not even a hint of such a concept.

It's clear that our present sins need present forgiveness, not for the purpose of salvation but as part of our relationship with the Father.

The hyper-grace teachers are simply wrong when they claim that all our future sins are forgiven the moment we are saved.

The old-fashioned method of evangelism was to make people weep, but the modern "Hollywood" way is to make people laugh. Everybody has to have a jolly good time. . . . We must have plenty of jokes or it would not be a good meeting. That is why there is such a woeful lack of conviction of sin in modern evangelism. The Holy Spirit cannot work in a frivolous atmosphere.

Let him who has done this be removed from among you" (1 Cor. 5:1–2). He even ordered that the offending, unrepentant brother be delivered "to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, so that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord" (v. 5).

The first time I saw my father-in-law's cotton, I though of the Original Sin, gardening being the root of the South's downfall.

Is that why you do good deeds, Richie? To shorten your time in Purgatory?' 'Oh, honey,' he said, brushing lint from an orange sleeve. 'I'm going to hell. That's where the action is.

Being what we humans are, what else could we do but wrong?

The root of all sin is found in the runaway indulgence of God-given desires.

Parents must be sensitive to their role in the child's moral development. One day he is going to choose without you. Will he make the right choice? No amount of training is going to override the certainty of sin developing in the child's life, but the training parents give can lessen the child's addiction to the flesh and make it easier for repentance to follow his sinful indulgence.

What sin has plagued me with this curse?

this is exactly how Satan works, not through what seems grotesque and repulsive, but through what seduces us.

It's an uphill battle, especially because many religious people still believe that being gay is a sin and a crime and, therefore, by their logic, "if homosexuals are allowed their civil rights, then so would prostitutes, thieves, and anyone else." These words were spoken by Anita Bryant—former entertainer and orange juice representative—who now has the honor of an award in her name, to be given to lucky winners for "unbridled and unparalleled bigotry.

Despair made you helpless. Despair got in the way of the mission. And it never helped. It was the sin that was not so much unforgivable as totally pointless.

Despair was the unforgivable sin. And he simply couldn't go out that way – he couldn't give up. If he was out of faith, he'd just have to push through it, and carry on. He'd fake it, if he had to.

That sounds so weird: "kill yourself." It makes it sound like you tried to murder someone, only that someone is you. But killing someone is wrong, and I don't think suicide is. It's my life, right? I should be able to end it if I want to. I don't think it's a sin.

This is the mission of God: to restore the creation and the life of humanity from the ravages of sin.[45] The church's function in this story is to participate in God's mission; we are to be caught up in God's own work of restoration and healing. This defines the identity and role of the church.

Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.

You cannot have a society of angels except in heaven

All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks.

I live in sin, to kill myself I live; no longer my life my own, but sin's; my good is given to me by heaven, my evil by myself, by my free will, of which I am deprived.

The mortal wants a demon to drag his tongue along her flesh, defiling as a means to comfort?" he asked. "You make it sound very dirty.

Jesus' obedience did away with Adam's disobedience.

Sin is when you aim for the mark (righteousness) and miss it; transgression is when you acknowledge the mark but choose to do your own thing anyway.