Quotes About Sin

The prayer of one who does not consider himself a sinner is not accepted by the Lord.

If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!

Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

Prayer is an exchange. We leave our burdens, worries and sin in the hands of God. We come away with oil of joy and the garment of praise.

My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here.

Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

Father of Light! great God of Heaven! Hear'st thou the accents of despair? Can guilt like man's be e'er forgiven? Can vice atone for crimes by prayer.

There is enough sin in my best prayer to send the whole world to Hell.

Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!

If thou least fallen into sin through violent temptations, seek speedily for repentance for it, recovery out of it, and reformation from it.

Prayer offered without faith by a person that doesn't truly believe God exists will not be effective. Sin in our lives that we refuse to confess will also render our prayers ineffective.

If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to Christ Himself.

It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.

Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.

If yon bethink yourself of any crime Unreconcil'd as yet to heaven and grace, Solicit for it straight.

Prayer is not to be used as a confessional to cancel sin. Such an error would impede true religion. Sin is forgiven only as it is destroyed by Christ - Truth and Light.

If you have truly been born again, it was the Holy Spirit who convicted you of sin and drew you into a relationship with Jesus.

The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.

peccadillo. So far as my observation goes, men

The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so much by the limits of finitude as by sin and ignorance. But the more we raise ourselves in the scale of being, the more will our ideas about God and the world correspond to reality.

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.

Then you will not be ashamed to tell men and demons that you are sanctified, and are living a pure and holy life free from sin, a life that gives you power over the world, the flesh, and the devil.

The Word says: "The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.

A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts.