Christ is never fully valued, until sin is clearly seen. We must know the depth and malignity of our disease, in order… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Nowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn't share our rating system. To him,… — Judah Smith Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
May we sit at the foot of the cross; and there learn what sin has done, what justice has done, what love… — John Newton Copy Share Image
Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine,… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Sin in the theater, I can observe now, is comparable to education in a university: it is there for those who wish… — Billie Burke Copy Share Image
Unto each man comes a day when his favorite sins all forsake him, And he complacently thinks he has forsaken his sins. — John Hay Copy Share Image
Satan's temptation may be summed up as appealing to man in this way: it made man desire to have what God had… — Henry Clarence Thiessen Copy Share Image
Though we are commanded to 'wash ourselves', to 'cleanse ourselves from sins', to 'purge ourselves from all our iniquities', yet to imagine… — John Owen Copy Share Image
'Sin Nombre' was almost like the adolescent version of 'Jane Eyre.' 'Jane Eyre' sort of picks up where 'Sin Nombre' ends. It's… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
Thou shalt not, it is said, make unto thee any graven image of God. The same commandment should apply when God is… — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs,… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Christian, that sin which first came between you and God is bad, but that is not the last step in the progress… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
It is Satan's constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real issues at stake in… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
It has been said that God's gift is also indescribable because of the grace by which it is given. God, who is… — Paul Sadler Copy Share Image
As we fell in Adam, we are saved in Christ. To deny the principle in the one case, is to deny it… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
It is not God that is worshipped but the group or authority that claims to speak in His name. Sin becomes disobedience… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Copy Share Image
Desiring to excel is not a sin. It is motivation that determines ambition's character. Our Lord never taught against the urge to… — J. Oswald Sanders Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people in the world—only two kinds. Not black or white, rich or poor, but those either dead… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
Pastors are sent to utter the deep things of God for the conviction of sin, and for edification and comfort. — T. B. Joshua Copy Share Image
It is never too late to turn from the errors of our ways: He who repents of his sins is almost innocent. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away; . . . .… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
The gospel points us upward to a God who gave himself for us, backward to the price he paid for our sin,… — J. D. Greear Copy Share Image
For although Claudius had been accused of gambling and drunkenness, not only were no worse sins laid to his charge, but he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sin is very important to the soul because sin is what disintegrates the soul; it's what attacks the soul. Sin kind of… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Men tell us in these days that sin is what you think it is. Well, it is not. Sin is what God… — John G. Lake Copy Share Image
My Sin City heroes are knights in dirty, blood-caked armor. They bring justice to a world that gives them no medals, no… — Frank Miller Copy Share Image
Our most modern sin is that we do not love the world enough. We have exiled the holy from this realm so… — Erik Reece Copy Share Image
From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people. — Howard Dean Copy Share Image
Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Evil: That which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Faith is illuminative, not operative; it does not force obedience, though it increases responsibility; it heightens guilt, but it does not prevent… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Men are born to sin…What does matter most, is not that we err, it is that we do benefit from our mistakes,… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
Sometimes 'sin' taxes are useful not because of their perceived health benefits but because they are effectively a form of voluntary taxation… — Jacob Rees-Mogg Copy Share Image
Any concept of grace that makes us feel more comfortable sinning is not biblical grace. God's grace never encourages us to live… — Randy Alcorn Copy Share Image
Blood sin and desecration of the race are the original sin in this world and the end of a humanity which surrenders… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Feelings can be controlled and behavior can be controlled. The line of sin is between the feelings and the behavior. The line… — Dallin H. Oaks Copy Share Image
What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image