--- title: "5 Doctrine Sin Quotes by 4 authors" description: "Browse 5 Doctrine Sin quotes by 4 authors. Discover the best Doctrine Sin sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bdf/d-martyn-lloyd-jones-13096_christian-life_thus-the-defective-doctrine-of-sin-and-t_661962.jpg" --- > [“Thus the defective doctrine of sin and the shallow idea of joy, working together, of necessity produce a superficial kind of person…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-martyn-lloyd-jones/thus-the-defective-doctrine-of-sin-and-the-shallow-idea-of-joy/) [D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-martyn-lloyd-jones/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bdf/d-martyn-lloyd-jones-13096_christian-life_thus-the-defective-doctrine-of-sin-and-t_661962.jpg) > [As we mature personally, as our families mature, and as our churches mature, we need the doctrine of sin more, not less;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c-j-mahaney/as-we-mature-personally-as-our-families-mature-and-as-our-churches/) [C. J. Mahaney](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c-j-mahaney/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ad3/c-j-mahaney-18178_assured_as-we-mature-personally-as-our-families_1444047.jpg) > [“Properly understood, the doctrine of sin means that believers are never as good as our true worldview should make us. Similarly, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-keller/properly-understood-the-doctrine-of-sin-means-that-believers-are/) [Timothy Keller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-keller/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/122/timothy-keller-240_common-grace_properly-understood-the-doctrine-of-sin_1675184.jpg) > [“I cannot help feeling that the final explanation of the state of the Church today is a defective sense of sin and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-martyn-lloyd-jones/i-cannot-help-feeling-that-the-final-explanation-of-the-state-of-the/) [D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-martyn-lloyd-jones/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a5/d-martyn-lloyd-jones-13096_christian-life_i-cannot-help-feeling-that-the-final-exp_2215528.jpg) > [“and especially the Methodist doctrine that sin is inherent and that all unregenerate sinners will experience hell in the after life.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/grant-h-palmer/and-especially-the-methodist-doctrine-that-sin-is-inherent-and-that/) [Grant H. Palmer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/grant-h-palmer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/991/grant-h-palmer-74354_doctrine-sin_and-especially-the-methodist-doctrine-th_2846839.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/doctrine-sin/#itemlist", "name": "Doctrine Sin Quotes", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Thus the defective doctrine of sin and the shallow idea of joy, working together, of necessity produce a superficial kind of person and a very inadequate kind of Christian life.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "D. 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