I had a Christian upbringing - it was all about sin and guilt. I was very happy just kissing people. I was… — Mira Sorvino Copy Share Image
We are such lovers of self-reliance, that we excuse in a man many sins, if he will show us a complete satisfaction… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It was on the cross of Calvary that God, in Christ, dealt fully and finally with self, the nature from which all… — Miles J. Stanford Copy Share Image
Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
The Israelites' slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deliver them from bondage, and… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
Sin met Mae and Alan coming into the flat. Mae frowned. "Is it no-shirts festival day?" "Every day with Nick is no-shirts… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
God loves us too much to pretend our sin isn't there. Sin is a cancer and Christ the surgeon. True prayer signs… — Mark Hart Copy Share Image
I should willingly give every drop of my blood to please Him and to prevent sinners offending Him. I shall be satisfied… — Gemma Galgani Copy Share Image
Even if you are on the brink of damnation, even if you have one foot in hell, even if you have sold… — Louis de Montfort Copy Share Image
As we mature personally, as our families mature, and as our churches mature, we need the doctrine of sin more, not less;… — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
Christians often get into perplexity about worldly allurements by asking, 'Where is the sin of this, or the danger of that?' There… — Hudson Taylor Copy Share Image
My analysis is that most faith based systems depend upon an absolute moral order. The declaration of things as absolutely evil or… — Hugh Hewitt Copy Share Image
We are Adam and Eve born out of chaos called creation Ribbing me gave you life yet you forget there will always… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
“The real difference in the believer who follows Christ and has mortified his will and died after the old man in Christ,… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I have known good and evil, sin and virtue, right and wrong; I have judged and been judged; I have passed through… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored. — James MacDonald Copy Share Image
Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty… — Tony Snow Copy Share Image
Also when it is a case of only upholding some spiritual tenet, such as infant baptism, original sin, and unnecessary separation, then… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the… — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
The sin of inadvertence, not being alert, not quite awake, is the sin of missing the moment of life-live with unremitting alertness. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
We might say God's wrath is His justice in action, rendering to everyone his just due, which, because of our sin is… — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
The longer we remain without confessing, the worse it is for us, the more entangled we become in the bonds of sin,… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image
When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
Many who confess their venial sins out of custom and concern for order but without thought of amendment remain burdened with them… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Most neuroses and some psychoses can be traced to the unnecessary and unhealthy habit of daily wallowing in the troubles and sins… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
What relief! What comfort! What joy! Those laden with transgressions and sorrows and sin may be forgiven and cleansed and purified if… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
I think then I may safely conclude and I firmly believe that American slavery is not only not a sin but especially… — James Henry Hammond Copy Share Image
If you say the Rosary faithfully unto death, I do assure you that, in spite of the gravity of your sins, 'you… — Louis de Montfort Copy Share Image
It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
“To shame our sins He blushed in blood; He closed His eyes to show us God; Let all the world fall down… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
Sin is the dare of God's justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, the slight of His power,… — John Bunyan Copy Share Image
Running a casino is like robbing a bank with no cops around. For guys like me, Las Vegas washes away your sins.… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
Not only the guilt, but the love of sin, and its dominion, are taken away, subdued by grace, and cordially renounced by… — John Newton Copy Share Image
The moment someone chooses to trust in Jesus Christ, his sins are wiped away, and he is adopted into God's family. That… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
At the cross, the worst about us-our sins-was laid upon Christ, and the best about Him-His righteousness-was laid upon us. — Steven J Lawson Copy Share Image
