“I plan to be a sinner tonight. Could've been something else, but looked way too good in my red dress to be… — Alysia Harris Copy Share Image
What would you expect? Sin will not come to you saying, 'I am sin.' It would do little harm if it did.… — J. C. Ryle 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
Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse. — Hosea Ballou 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
Thou art beautiful because God created thee, but thou art a slave to sin... wickedness has made you ugly. — George MacDonald 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 sin of Adam did not make the condemnation of all men merely possible; it was the ground of their actual condemnation.… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
Blessed is he who like Joshua (cf. Josh. 10:12-13) keeps the Sun of righteousness from setting in himself throughout the whole day… — Maximus the Confessor Copy Share Image
Masturbation is not physically necessary. There is already a way by which the male system relieves excessive spermatic fluid quite regularly through… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
People don't have an ongoing relation unless it's a form of debt because everything is an exchange, so ongoing relationships are incomplete… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
“Why had he committed this terrible sin? Everything in the world was insignificant compared to what he had lost. Everything in the… — Vasily Grossman Copy Share Image
“Initially, the God of the Old Testament might seem overwhelming and domineering to you, or tyrannical, or perhaps even evil, which is… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
So it is that real, personal sacrifice never was placing an animal on the altar. Instead, it is a willingness to put… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
It's one thing for a person to live his life as a vacuous shell without fully comprehending the extent of his transgressions,… — Tarek Saab 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
Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
Dislike what deserves it, but never hate: for that is of the nature of malice; which is almost ever to persons, not… — William Penn Copy Share Image
He who devoutly hears holy Mass will receive a great vigor to enable him to resist mortal sin, and there shall be… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“He felt like sin but tasted like love so what's a clumsy girl to do but stumble in delicious crazy love.” — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If every time the blood is poured out it is poured out for the remission of sins, I ought to receive it… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Conviction of sin draws me away from myself and toward GodSelf-condemnation, on the other hand, draws me down into myself and away… — Elyse Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even every Bachelor of Arts, That all sin is divided into two parts. One… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
But homosexuality is a combat divider, dividing one's reason to live while taking breaks on the combat field to change diapers all… — Gordon Klingenschmitt Copy Share Image
Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“At a certain point in his life he stopped searching for himself in everything that exists and gave in to temptations. Or,… — Laura Esquivel 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
...the counsels of the Divine Mind had some glimpse of truth when they said that men are born in order to suffer… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
