Quotes About Sin

Albert Wolters points out that most of Christ's miracles "are miracles of restoration—restoration to health, restoration to life, restoration to freedom from demonic possession. Jesus' miracles provide us with a sample of the meaning of redemption: a freeing of creation from the shackles of sin and evil and a reinstatement of creaturely living as intended by God.

The lustful man walks with a noose around his neck.

we inherited from our Eden-dwelling ancestors a sense of their pre-Fall happiness. Our hearts refuse to settle for sin, suffering, boredom, and purposelessness—we long for something better. Were we merely the product of natural selection and survival of the fittest, we'd have no grounds for believing any ancient happiness existed. But we are all nostalgic for an Eden we've only seen fleeting hints of. Unfortunately

Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin doesn't.

The fear of God is the death of every other fear; like a mighty lion, it chases all other fears before it." —Charles Spurgeon   "We are more concerned about looking stupid (fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (fear of the Lord)." —Edward T. Welch

The beginning of the way to heaven, is to feel that we are on the way to hell." —J. C. Ryle

When our sin reached its full horror, God's love was displayed in all its glory. If you doubt God's love for you, look at the cross.

The safest road to hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. C. S. Lewis

The essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man." —John Stott

So Heaven is not our default destination. No one goes there automatically. Unless our sin problem is resolved, the only place we will go is our true default destination . . . Hell.

Redemption precedes morality, and not the other way around.

His first step is to make temptation appear as a natural desire. It is something unequivocally physical and human.

The Christian faith, simply stated, reminds us that our fundamental problem is not moral; it is spiritual.

It is not just that we are immoral, but that a moral life alone cannot bridge what separates us from God.

Though I used to complain about the indecency of the idea of God's wrath, I came to think that I would have to rebel against a God who wasn't wrathful at the sight of the world's evil. God isn't wrathful in spite of being love. God is wrathful because God is love.13

Pleasure that profanes is pleasure that destroys.

For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened.

As Paul said in Romans 7:16 and 18, "I do what I do not want to do… For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out" (NIV).

A moral life alone cannot bridge what separates us from God. This is the cardinal difference between the moralizing religions and Jesus' offer to us. Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive.

Whatever weakens your reasoning, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes away your relish for spiritual things; in short, if anything increases the authority and power of the flesh over the Spirit, then that to you becomes sin, however good it is in itself.

Someone has said that our sin scorches us most after we have received forgiveness, and not before. Once you realize how much you've been forgiven, you see how great that forgiveness really is.

Men are men, unfortunately, no matter what their shape, and inclined to sin.

men do love sin, Will, oh how they love it, never doubt, in all shapes, sizes, colors, and smells.

We salt our lives with other people's sins.