Sin Quotes · Page 111

Temptation isn't a sin that you triumph over once, completely and then you're free. Temptation slips into bed with you each night…

— Karen Marie Moning

One of those poor fellows that had become a Christian was badgered by his companions; and one of them said, "How do…

— John Bartholomew Gough

Tis not, to cry God mercy, or to sit And droop, or to confess that thou hast fail'd: 'Tis to bewail the…

— Francis Quarles

It is only as we consciously bring each victory to His feet, and keep it there as we think of it -…

— Francis Schaeffer

When you meet with crosses and calamities, say, "Now I see God's justice and God's truth; now I see the hatefulness and…

— William Whately

The difference between an unconverted and a converted man is not that the one has sins and the other has none; but…

— William Arnot

In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in…

— Fannie Barrier Williams

One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity.…

— Malcolm Muggeridge

He liked cheap women, fast cars, late nights, and hard liquor, especially all together. In Jack's view, you are obliged to sin…

— Lisa Kleypas

By the sympathy of your human hearts for sin ye shall scent out all the places — whether in church, bedchamber, street,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“God has to punish sinners, because God is holy, but Jesus has paid the price for our sin, and so we can…

— Rob Bell

The most remarkable thing about him were his eyes. They were laughing eyes, at once both joyous and tender: they were the…

— Cassandra Clare

By faith we are taken into Christ, made at once safe from holy wrath against sin, and kept safe from all perils…

— Anonymous

The sinful actions of men may be sinful, either from the motives which prompt them, the ends in view, or the means…

— James Petigru Boyce

Most churches make the mistake of selecting as leaders the confident, the competent, and the successful. But what you most need in…

— Timothy Keller

Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It…

— Phyllis McGinley

Well, the things that country music is parodied for sometimes - trains, drinking, sin, cheating, redemption, jailhouses, rambling, hoboing, on and on,…

— Marty Stuart

What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your…

— Boyd K. Packer

It is not to be understood that I am with him (Jesus Christ) in all his doctrines. I am a Materialist; he…

— Thomas Jefferson

Let us learn how the love of Christ, received into the heart, triumphs gradually but surely over all sin, transforms character, turning…

— Alexander MacLaren

Would you be free from the condemnation of the sins that are past, from the power of the temptations that are to…

— Dwight L. Moody

“Original sin and conscious awareness of human fallibility is the perpetual agent of transformation in human affairs. Humankind’s behavior is pathological; it…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

To be justified means more than to be declared "not guilty." It actually means to be declared righteous before God. It means…

— Jerry Bridges

Our sainted aunts prate of living for others while our rich uncles call us mollycoddles for not fighting for what we want.…

— Nicholas Samstag

I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But…

— Elizabeth Janeway

Besides, there wasn’t a breed of succubi out there that didn’t steal something. Whether it was your seed, your soul, your life-force,…

— Larissa Ione

O sin, how you paint your face! how you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner…

— Hosea Ballou

Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins,…

— Elisabeth Elliot

Today, the growers are like a punch-drunk old boxer who doesn't know he's past his prime. The times are changing. The political…

— Cesar Chavez

Woman too commonly commits the sin of self-sacrifice whereby she consents to be sequestered in the home, without intellectual stimulus, so that…

— Rebecca West

God is the only being who is good, and the standards are set by Him. Because God hates sin, He has to…

— Francis Chan

Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its trust, not in the living God but in dying men. The unbeliever denies…

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness,…

— Anonymous

Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not…

— Donald Cargill

Take this to heart and doubt not that you are the one who killed Christ. Your sins certainly did, and when you…

— Martin Luther

Not everybody wants to call sin 'sin'! Some call it mischief. Some call it rebellion. And hardly anybody can agree where we…

— Paul Harvey

Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' . . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or…

— Elmore Leonard

Thank you for liking Sin City. I can completely understand if you watch that movie and then I talk about single-use plastic…

— Rosario Dawson

The Cross was the place of your spiritual birth; it must ever be the spot for renewing your health, for it is…

— Charles Spurgeon

No economic activity was more irrepressible [in the 14th century] than the investment and lending at interest of money; it was the…

— Barbara Tuchman