Quotes About Sin

crimes come down to love, hate, or money, and unlike what it says in the bible, the greatest of these is money.

Yes, in Christianity, the gap that our sin creates between us and God is simply insurmountable. Trying to cross it is like jumping off the Newport Beach pier and trying to leap to Hawaii," he said, gesturing in the general direction of the Pacific Ocean.

Pride is the mother hen under which all other sins are hatched,' says C. S. Lewis.

if you do something against me, I have the right to forgive you. However, if you do something against me and somebody else comes along and says, 'I forgive you,' what kind of cheek is that? The only person who can say that sort of thing meaningfully is God himself, because sin, even if it is against other people, is first and foremost a defiance of God and his laws.

if God took his hands off this fallen world so that there were no restraint on human wickedness, we would make hell. Thus if you allow a whole lot of sinners to live somewhere in a confined place where they're not doing damage to anyone but themselves, what do you get but hell? There's a sense in which they're doing it to themselves, and it's what they want because they still don't repent.

The source of evil is not God's power but mankind's freedom.

The prophet Jeremiah said that 'from the least to the greatest, all are greedy for gain,'18 and the prophet Isaiah said, 'all of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags.'19 Our good deeds are stained with self-interest and our demands for justice are mixed with lust for vengeance. Ironically, it's the best people who most readily recognize and admit their own shortcomings and sin.

Only by facing my sin could God use it to change me for the better. The Bible warns that God's discipline isn't pleasant, but in the end the changes God produces in our character are worth it.

Jesus, the ultimate sacrificial lamb of God, who paid for sin once and for all. Here was the personification of God's plan of redemption.

Although not all flesh is forbidden, everything that is forbidden is flesh.

Sin? What is sin inside the dynamic of family relationships? It is a mystery that began with man. No one can solve it except through his own unique experience. How you feel is human. But do not think it will leave you alone. We are never free of our blood.

In the Old Testament, guilt enters the world by way of a bite from a fruit.

Philip Yancey was dead-on when he said that some Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.79

we should keep in mind the difference between sin and tragedy.

Eve didn't choose to eat the apple. She was tempted by the serpent. Yes, I argue, thoughts coming out half-formed. But...she didn't have to take a bite. She chose to.

We commit sin when we worry. We do not trust God when we worry. We do not receive answers to prayer when we worry, because we are not trusting.

Is your father really evil?" I heard myself ask. "Yes." "Because he drank, did drugs?" "No, honey. Because God made him that way, and he liked it. Your father had an excuse. My father doesn't.

In the end, it's not much of a decision at all. Angelique. I am here to find Angelique. To save a girl. To redeem a sin I can never change. And maybe to chase a bullet I dodged ten years ago. I turn left, down the end of the hall to the fire escape. Then, I vanish into the dark.

Brains cause technology, society, art, science, soap operas, sin. A remarkable set of effects for such a small chunk of coagulated atoms.

Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.

The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands and fathers, the masters, the strong and the rich and the educated.

There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I'm the biggest sinner of them all.

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, and which separates us from God and produces so many contagious spiritual disorders, is selfishness.