Quotes About Sin

Real devils are the people who don't want to see God forgive the devil on judgment day.

Religiously speaking, interest is an act of theft.

Since Adam and Eve were fired or cast out of heaven, we have all become unemployed from that day forward.

The advice to love yourself may sound beautiful to the ear, but it was the only sin committed by the first narcissist.

The day the devil asks for forgiveness is the day he ceases to be considered the wicked one. It's said that God loves to forgive.

The devil is more motivated because he sacrificed heaven. He only has one goal in mind.

The devil is no longer a sinner but a sin addict. Simply, because he has gone beyond the measure. Thus, exceeding all the limitations of sin.

The devil is our spiritual police man. Unless you wish to do good, then you will be saved from getting a ticket or going to court.

The devil still rebelled, despite having lived in paradise for many years.

The fact that Jesus died for your sins is actually encouraging the criminals to do whatever they want.

The fact that we will all die sooner or later is enough to prove that we are responsible for our sins.

The sin is not in the persuasion itself, but in the intention of that individual. If the intention is pure, then your means will also be justified.

To sin is to declare war on the universe and to bring disorder to the world.

We have the concept of the prodigal son on Earth. But what if the devil applies the same in heaven. To be forgiven for going against the laws of God.

We may allow the idea of The Origin Sin to endlessly haunt our minds, but we are well ensured that it is not our concern.

But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more.

María Delgado confesses 9 mortal & 32 venial sins! & wonders exceedingly at the 9 as if they had been miracles.

The great drama will end, not with "saved souls" being snatched up into heaven, away from the wicked earth and the mortal bodies which have dragged them down into sin, but with the New Jerusalem coming down from heaven to earth, so that "the dwelling of God is with humans" (Revelation 21:3).

Take Christmas away, and in biblical terms you lose two chapters at the front of Matthew and Luke, nothing else. Take Easter away, and you don't have a New Testament; you don't have a Christianity; as Paul says, you are still in your sins.

When we say, "Jesus died for our sins" within a message about how to escape this nasty old world and go to heaven, it means one thing. When we say, "Jesus died for our sins" within a message about God the creator rescuing his creation from corruption, decay, and death, and rescuing us to be part of that, it means something significantly different.

Since sin, the consequence of idolatry, is what keeps humans in thrall to the nongods of the world, dealing with sin has a more profound effect than simply releasing humans to go to heaven. It releases humans from the grip of the idols, so they can worship the living God and be renewed according to his image.

the Platonized eschatology so popular over many centuries (how will my soul get to heaven?) has played host to a moralized anthropology (what's to be done about my sin?), generating a quasi-pagan soteriology (God killed Jesus instead of punishing me).

And we must not confuse the idea of God speaking, in this or any other way, with the notion of authority. Authority, particularly when we locate it within the notion of God's Kingdom, is much more than that. It is the sovereign rule of God sweeping through creation to judge and to heal. It is the powerful love of God in Jesus Christ, putting sin to death and launching new creation. It is the fresh, bracing and energizing wind of the Spirit.

There is every reason too to understand the display of that "righteousness" as connected with God's somehow rescuing the world from idolatry and sin, through Israel, in order to create a single worldwide family for Abraham. The actual arguments Paul advances on either side of our passage, in other words, strongly support a reading of dikaiosyn? theou and cognate ideas in 3:21–26 as "covenant faithfulness.