Quotes About Sin

It [Adam's act] cast off the authority of God, usurped his prerogative, and gave the mind up to the dominion of natural desire

God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.

Unconfessed sin is a terrible, heavy burden to carry. God loves us too much to have unconfessed sin.

Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all God's commandments, making conscience even of little sins and little duties.

For in the Third Showing when I saw that God does all that is done, I saw no sin: and then I saw that all is well. But when God showed me for sin, then said He: All SHALL be well.

Sin has a way of shrinking God down and puffing ourselves up.

Because God's justice is inexorable, it is hard to obtain forgiveness for sins committed with complete deliberation.

Racism is still America's greatest addiction. I also believe that America is the greatest sin against God.

Our sin is what separates us from God, but it's our self righteousness that keeps us from running to Him for the grace He willingly gives to all who come.

Whenever we cover our brother's sin, God will cover ours; whenever we tell people about our brother's guilt, God will do the same about ours.

The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on earth.

It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power to help you to hate and flee from sin as you should.

So long as lust, whether of the world or flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God.

He who looks sinward has his back to God-he who looks Godward has his back to sin.

When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.

The gospel shows a God far more holy than the legalist can bear, yet far more merciful than a humanist can conceive

We must reacquaint ourselves with the biblical weight of the problem that we less-than-perfect human beings contend with in the face of a holy and righteous God.

God is tolerant in that He asks everyone to repent.

Sin is blatant mutiny against God.

Sin is not weakness, it is a disease; it is red-handed rebellion against God and the magnitude of that rebellion is expressed by Calvary's cross.

Integrity... does not mean sinless, but it does describe a person who by God's grace "sin less."

God is not against us for our sins. God is for us against our sins.

I think I've always been good so God wouldn't strike me dead.

When a sinner has any just sense of his condition, as alienated from a holy God, he will not be apt to think of the unpardonable sin.