Quotes About Sin

No man is free to ignore God's standards. No one has the right to choose not to serve God, for God has made man to serve him and has-commanded "all men everywhere to repent" (Acts 17:30). He has called them to turn from idols to the true and living God, to serve him and to wait for his Son from heaven. Not all men, however, obey that command. Sin has cosmic dimensions.

We each carry a measure of grace, and we each carry a measure of evil. There is never enough grace to banish the evil, and there is never enough evil to smother the grace.

Augustine has defined sin as the "love of self to the neglect of God" and opposes to this the "love of God to the neglect of self

It would seem logical to pray to the devil, but no thief would dare do so seriously. To come to terms with him would be to commit oneself too deeply. He is too opposed to God, who, we know, is the final victor. A murderer himself would not dare pray to the devil.

c'était pas un péché… si c'était pas un péché, je me pensais, de clôturer une chrétienne quasiment sous terre quand il faisait si beau dehors.

They did not say it was a punishment on womankind. This was because men were the rulers and women had to suffer for their sins.)

Miroir de l'Ame Pecheresse, Mirror of a Lost Soul.

On this view, God is the cause of physical evil. The question arose, then, whether He is also the cause of sin and of moral evil; and, if so, how He could have invented the very thing that corrupts His creation. The attempt to vindicate God's will was called theodicy in Greek, and it is this term that is traditionally used to refer to all human attempts to justify the existence of evil in a world that has been perfectly made. Theodicies

Tragische Schuld verkörpert sich im permanenten Konflikt zwischen der uralten religiösen Vorstellung von der Missetat als einer Beschmutzung, die einer ganzen Rasse anhaftet und unausweichlich von einer Generation auf die nächste vererbt wird [...], und dem neuen vom Gesetz übernommenen Konzept, nach dem der Schuldige definiert wird als Privatperson, die sich aus eigenem Antrieb und unter keinem Zwang stehend entschlossen hat, ein Verbrechen zu begehen.

Don't sin by letting anger control you. Don't let the sun go down while you are still angry, for anger gives a foothold to the devil

Where lies the strangling fruit that came from the hand of the sinner I shall bring forth the seeds of the dead.

Man prefers to blame himself for all possible sins and crimes rather than come to the conclusion that God is capable of the most flagrant injustice. I still blush every time I think of the way God makes fun of human beings, his favorite toys.

Are you forgetting that losing a game is an error or a lesson, but losing one's time is a sin?

Man prefers to blame himself for all possible sins and crimes rather than coe to the conclussion tat God is capable of the most flagrant injustice. I still blush everytime I think of the way God makes fun of human beings, his favorite toys.

We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited to redeem. We receive his poured-out life, and being allowed the high privilege of suffering with Him, may then pour ourselves out for others.

But you will find yourself disarmed utterly, and your accusing spirit transformed into loving forgiveness the moment you remember that you did, in fact, marry only a sinner, and so did he.

Once one understands that the evolving community of life on Earth is God's beloved creation and its ruination an unspeakable sin, then deep affection shown in action on behalf of ecojustice becomes an indivisible part of one's life.

In theology, androcentrism ensures that ruling men will be the norm for language not only about human nature but also about God, sin and redemption, the church, and it's mission.

Jesus, I know I am a sinner. I want to repent of my sins and turn and follow You. I believe You died for my sins and rose again victorious over the power of sin and death, and I want to accept You as my personal Savior. Come into my life, Lord Jesus, and help me obey You from this day forward. Amen.

It's good to be sorry - but don't make a fetish of it. The one good thing about being Protestant is that we are not expected to cringe forever in contrition. Yours was a venial sin, Vivian, but not a mortal one.' 'I don't know what that means.' 'I'm not sure I do, either. It's just something I once read. Here is what I do know, however: sins of the flesh will not get you punished in the afterlife. They will only get you punished in this life. As you've now learned.

I'm sorry for what I did. Of course you are. I'm sorry for many of the things I've done, too. Everyone is sorry. It's good to be sorry - but don't make a fetish of it. The one good things about being Protestant is that we are not expected to cringe forever in contrition. Yours was a venial sin, Vivian, but not a mortal one. [...] Sins of the flesh will not get you punished in the afterlife. They will only get you punished in this life. As you've now learned.

It may seem a simple pleasure to spoil our children with a treat of sugar, but that pleasure becomes a sin when the sugar was grown by human beings held in unspeakable misery.

In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

Dear God. She ached, wanting something that she knew was a sin. Wanting a man who was sin itself.