Quotes About Sinners

Jesus's followers themselves were to be given a new kind of task. The Great Jailer had been overpowered; now someone had to go and unlock the prison doors. Forgiveness of sins had been accomplished, robbing the idols of their power; someone had to go and announce the amnesty to "sinners" far and wide. And this had to be done by means of the new sort of power: the cross-resurrection-Spirit kind of power. The power of suffering love.

Then and now, broken sinners are the kinds of people God chooses to save, to bless, and to help.

Christians have done far more damage to the church of Jesus Christ than any sinners outside the church could inflict.

Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence--and with all that, a generous mixture of self-love, ambition, vanity, petty personal ticklishness, and a good many of those things which a man simply cannot do without.

It's no wonder, however, that somebody would get cold who had knocked about all day in hell, where, as we know, it is not so cold as it is here in winter, and where, a chef's hat on his head and standing before the hearth like a real cook, he had been roasting sinners with as much pleasure as any woman roasts sausages at Christmas.

Where do bad folks go when they die? They don't go to Heaven where the angels fly They go to the lake of fire and fry Won't see 'em again 'til the Fourth of July

Thieves, Heretics, and Whores

by being baptized by John the Baptist, shedding His blood by dying on the Cross, and through this saved all the sinners of the world from their sins.

Many Christians have put their trust in changing laws rather than, with God's help, changing hearts of fellow sinners for whom Christ died (1 John 2:2). The church in America often depends on legislation to do the work that God calls his people to do. The Spirit's transformation of ourselves and of those around us comes when we love God and neighbor—the very core of our Christian commitment.

You see, the Advent story reminds us that our past, present, and future hope rest not on our willingness, but on the willingness of the One for whom the angels sang, the shepherds worshiped, and the magi searched. Willing Jesus is the only hope for unwilling sinners!

the Advent story reminds us that our past, present, and future hope rest not on our willingness, but on the willingness of the One for whom the angels sang, the shepherds worshiped, and the magi searched. Willing Jesus is the only hope for unwilling sinners!

We must humbly admit we are sinners while we lay hold of the hope of our union with Christ. We don't simply suffer; we suffer as sinners with a deep propensity to run after god-replacements.

Here's what you need to understand: your faith is not your hope; his zealous grace is the only source of hope for fickle-faith sinners.

Grace is only ever attractive to sinners.

to recognize that we are "sinners" or "fallen" is to recognize that there are limits to the human condition and that sound reason and good will of themselves do not automatically ensure progress;

They never understood his ministry, the meaning of his life: that he had come to call, not sinners, but the righteous to repentance

Here is another strategy for the sentence completion exercise: Sure, Jesus talks about loving your enemies, but Jesus also talks about throwing sinners into hell to burn forever. Since eternal damnation is far worse than exterminating merely one ancient people for their land, the argument goes, don't get all worked up about the Canaanites. Crisis averted. No, it's not.

Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.

Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

You sinners frustrate the plans of the oppressed, yet the LORD is their shelter.

Good and upright is the LORD; therefore He shows sinners the way.

Do not take my soul away with sinners, or my life with men of bloodshed,

Then I will teach transgressors Your ways, and sinners will return to You.

May sinners vanish from the earth and the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul. Hallelujah!