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Quotes About Sinners

We are all foolish sinners saved only by grace & we can all use a little guidance sometimes.
~ Lesley Sears
An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail.
~ Thomas Brooks
There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God
~ Jonathan Edwards
A love which does not prove itself in action is not enough, nor is our natural readiness to please a friend; that is not charity, for sinners are ready to do the same. Jesus
~ Thérèse de Lisieux
I have read in the Gospel that the Good Shepherd leaves the faithful ones of His flock in the desert to hasten after the lost sheep. This confidence touches me deeply. You see He is sure of them. How could they stray away? They are prisoners of Love. In like manner does the Beloved Shepherd of our souls deprive us of the sweets of His Presence, to give His consolations to sinners
~ Thérèse de Lisieux
There are many fair professors that are foul sinners, and that have much of God, and Christ, and heaven, and holiness in their lips, when they have nothing but sin and hell in their hearts and lives. These mens conversations shame their profession, and therefore they cry against sanctification as a sure and blessed evidence of a mans justification.
~ Thomas Brooks
The deeper irony is that the evidence of sin that are always found in and around the body of Christ may become indirect intimations of its holiness. It could not be a holy church if it had clean hands, as if severed from its task of saving sinners and healing human hurt.
~ Thomas C. Oden
Romans 2:14–15 (see Ephesians 2:3)—How can those who are by nature sinners keep God's laws of nature?
~ Norman L. Geisler
Churches are full of sinners, not saints
~ Victoria Thompson
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us" (Rom. 5:8).
~ Charles F. Stanley
Some persons who are going to perdition: Whiskey-men, saloon-keepers, whoremongers, prostitutes, seducers of innocent virtue, wilful liars, theatre-goers, horse-racers, (and their kind,) tricksters in politics and business, and bad people of all grade are on the road to perdition.
~ Charles Guiteau
it is not punishment chiefly and principally that the Deity, as Judge, afflicts sinners with; but He operates, as your argument has shown, only to get the good separated from the evil and to attract it into the communion of blessedness.
~ Gregory of Nyssa
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
~ Eric Hoffer
if you reject universalism, then you must also reject at least one of these assumptions; that is, you must either deny that God wills (or sincerely desires) the redemption of all sinners or deny that he will in fact satisfy his own will or desire in this matter.
~ Thomas Talbott
God's method in calling sinners may vary, but the effect is still the same.
~ Thomas Watson
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
~ Thornton Wilder
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
~ Thornton Wilder
exasperate the reader as much as he does the sinners he meets on his journey through America selling textbooks. You
~ Thornton Wilder
Glory be to you, God the Father, for such a way of recovery for undone sinners. Glory be to you, God the Son, for you have loved me and washed me in your own blood. Glory be to you, God the Holy Spirit, for your power has turned my heart from sin to God.
~ Tim Chester
The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future.
~ Oscar Wilde
Without malefactors the world of the righteous is robbed of all meaning.
~ Cormac McCarthy
good morning sinners. vampiric red bull intake in pub smoking compound commenced. day of heavy brain-fingering ahead.
~ Warren Ellis
Jesus] said, "Those who are strong have no need of a physician, but those who are ill.…For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners" (Matt. 9:10-13). Jesus opened up God's heart to men.
~ Watchman Nee
As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found an organized religion but came instead to found an unorganized one. He seems to have come to carry religion out of the temples into the fields and sheep pastures, onto the roadsides and the banks of the rivers, into the houses of sinners and publicans, into the town and the wilderness, toward the membership of all that is here. Well, you can read and see what you think.
~ Wendell Berry