Sin Quotes · Page 47

Remember: sin, even if legalized by man, is still sin in the eyes of God.

— Russell M. Nelson

Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.

— Anatole France

Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.

— Oswald Chambers

A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

We are not sinners because we sin. We sin because we are sinners.

— R. C. Sproul

If Jupiter hurled his thunderbolt as often as men sinned, he would soon be out of thunderbolts.

— Ovid

Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

— Swami Vivekananda

when a swinging sin is to be committed, there is nothing like a gown and a cassock to cover it.

— Laetitia Pilkington

People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of…

— Richard Stallman

When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

— Paul David Tripp

Nothing is uglier than the sinner, nothing so leprous or fetid; the scar of his crimes is still raw, and he stinks…

— Prudentius

While sin is overflowing, [grace] pours itself forth so exuberantly, that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs…

— John Calvin

God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect.

— Saint Augustine

Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without…

— Thomas Aquinas

For generations, the body of Christ has been defeated and put under a constant siege of condemnation from the accuser because they…

— Joseph Prince

Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what…

— Baruch Spinoza

Beloved, if any unholiness exists in the nature, it is not there by the consent of the Spirit of God. If unholiness…

— John G. Lake

It is the same with everything else, with food, with pleasures, with sleep; with everything there is a limit to what is…

— G. I. Gurdjieff

Whenever God touches sin it is independence that is touched, an that awakens resentment in the human heart. Independence must be blasted…

— Oswald Chambers

“I mean, you may cause others a spot of bother by your weaknesses, perhaps, but coping with you may possibly increase their…

— Elizabeth Goudge

That evening I went for a walk. To walk for the sake of walking is something I seldom do. Inside my apartment…

— Daniel Quinn

In every system of theology, therefore, there is a chapter De libero arbitrio. This is a question which every theologian finds in…

— Charles Hodge

To be "in Christ" is to place one's trust in Him for salvation from sin. To be "in Christ" is to trust…

— Anonymous

To have a reputation for being noble, she thought, is more confining than to be known as a wit. On the rare…

— Libbie Block

When God forgives our sin, he is not changing his mind about us; he is changing our mind about him.

— Herbert McCabe

To be tempted is not to sin. The strongest attacks are made on the strongest forts.

— Dwight L. Moody

Division within a Christian community is a very grave sin; it is the work of the devil.

— Pope Francis

Unholy soldier, disciple of sin, what kind of mind are you living in?

— Ozzy Osbourne

“It is better to be slave to righteousness of God than sin of satan.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

My environment can give me relief from sin and tension, only the Lord can cure it.

— Anonymous

There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction.

— Thomas Brooks

It's not a sin to get knocked down; it's a sin to stay down

— Carl Brashear

It is a sin to regard the fact that God cannot do the impossible as a limitation on his powers.

— Thomas Aquinas

The first step in a person's salvation is knowledge of their sin.

— Anonymous

Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.

— Margaret Smith

Real repentance means coming not only to be sorry for the consequences of sin but to hate sin itself.

— William Barclay

How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?

— John Henry Newman

“Who shall deliver us from the sin of the flesh? GOD alone, the Divine Being.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

— Hugh Kingsmill

“Anything is forgiven those who sin elegantly; while gaucheness sours even the noblest deed.”

— Jonathan Grimwood