Quotes About Sin

There is no sin or transgression, pain or sorrow, which is outside of the healing power of His Atonement.

it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things.

God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face.

To keep the heart then, is carefully to preserve it from sin which disorders it; and maintain that spiritual and gracious frame, which fits it for a life of communion with God.

Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification.

The sinless One took on the face of a sinner so that we sinners could take on the face of a saint.

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

I do not stand here before you as a self-righteous saint who has achieved spiritual perfection, but as a sinner who has received Jesus into his heart as his Lord and Savior.

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

A holy life is not a life empty of sin, but a life full of God's presence.

The center of my sins stuck behind a blocked door, circled by hollow deeds spread on my lifetime's floor

Sin is really an extreme form of amnesia. It is forgetting who you were when you were created as a spirit which came forth from the heart of God—a spirit made in His perfect, sinless image.

The spirit of fornication and adultery robs a man of his authority in the spiritual realm.

The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn't sin but wants to sin.

Fornication deprives a person of his spiritual covering.

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

I'm just like you. I enjoy the forbidden fruits in life, too.

I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.

Evil is the absence of God.

Evil requires no reason.

I want God, I want poetry, I want danger, I want freedom, I want sin.

The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.

Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.