Sin Quotes · Page 78

The fundamental loss of a desire for God is the heart of original sin.

— R. C. Sproul

“Man does not commit sin in unintentional deed, but he might be the only one that could justify it.”

— Toba Beta

Priests have to have the right to say that a sin is a sin.

— Rocco Buttiglione

The only sin that we never forgive in each other is a difference in opinion.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.

— Charles Spurgeon

His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.

— Anonymous

When the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, he shows himself at another.

— Henry David Thoreau

Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us...

— C. S. Lewis

After the bitching I'd done to Abe about going to remote, crappy places, I should have been excited about the prospect of…

— Richelle Mead

Let us therefore give ourselves to God with a great desire to begin to live thus, and beg Him to destroy in…

— Anonymous

Goal setting has traditionally been based on past performance. This practice has tended to perpetuate the sins of the past.

— Joseph M. Juran

I wish, in America, (that) we were as concerned about separation from church and sin as we are about separation between church…

— Leonard Ravenhill

Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what…

— Martin Luther

Love of power more frequently originates in vanity than pride (two qualities, by the way, which are often confounded) and is, consequently,…

— Frances Wright

Our world was brutal, immoral, smug and conventional. We had unbounded contempt for all those who did not sin as we sinned.

— Jim Tully

Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man…

— Thomas Huxley

Children of God should not make a general confession by acknowledging their innumerable sins in a vague manner, because such confession does…

— Watchman Nee

God's love is his holiness reaching out to sinners; grace is but the price that his love pays to his holiness; the…

— David F. Wells

I mean, think about [the phrase 'love the sinner, hate the sin.'] Isn't it like saying, 'I love left-handed people but hate…

— Alex Sanchez

The god who exacts the last drop of blood from his Son so that his just anger, evoked by sin, may be…

— Brennan Manning

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side; it has revealed to us…

— Abraham Maslow

Do not allow darkness and gloom to enter into your hearts. I want to give you a rule by which you may…

— George Q. Cannon

It is my assumption that growth in faith is the root of all spiritual growth and is prior to all disciplines of…

— Richard Lovelace

They can say that abortion is alright. They can vote to sustain gay marriage. And that will take western civilization, indeed other…

— Katherine Harris

Sin turns ugly and is subject to defeat only when seen in the light of Christ's beauty.

— Sam Storms

We are not our parents, Gabriel. We do not have to carry the burden of their choices or their sins.

— Cassandra Clare

If you're not electing Christians then in essence you are going to legislate sin.

— Katherine Harris

What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.

— Alphonsus Liguori

Slavery is America's original sin and was the great global injustice of that age.

— Chrystia Freeland

When Jesus died on the cross, so did your sin; when He rose from the dead, so did your HOPE.

— Max Lucado

The seven deadly sins should be updated. We should add an eighth sin: Cowardice.

— Gad Saad

God had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without trial.

— Dwight L. Moody

Like most of the educated, I do harbor a fondness for the sins of my ignorant past.

— Jane Smiley

At times we are slaves of sin. Lord, come to free us!

— Pope Francis

Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?

— Max Muller

“Any sin we commit is outside the body accept sexual act.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you

— Genghis Khan

Redemption from sin is greater then redemption from affliction.

— Daniel Defoe

How about you hate your sin, and I'll hate my sin and we'll just love each other!

— Mark Lowry

Sin endeavors to subject the blessed God to the humor and lust of every person in the world

— Stephen Charnock