I've never known anyone who has fallen into sin and been successfully restored by the formal church structure. Nor have I ever… — Ted Haggard Copy Share Image
Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities. — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
America is not big enough to shake her fist in the face of a holy God and get away with it, and… — Reggie White Copy Share Image
All the tears of a penitent sinner, should he shed as many as there have been fallen drops of rain since the… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
Unsuccessful emulation is too apt to sink into envy, which of all sins has not even the excuse to offer of temporary… — Sydney Thompson Dobell Copy Share Image
“Henry knew sin was a challenge to life; not an act of unreason, but an act of courage and determination.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
You can't go to church without praying ten or fifteen times for God to have mercy on you. You can't sing "Amazing… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
Make tawba not just for sins you've committed, but also for obligations you haven't fulfilled. — Ibn Taymiyyah Copy Share Image
The more you see your own flaws and sins, the more precious, electrifying, and amazing God’s grace appears to you. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Trust wholly in Christ; rely altogether on His sufferings; beware of seeking to be justified in any other way than by His… — John Wycliffe Copy Share Image
The concept of substitution lies at the heart of both sin and salvation. For the essence of sin is man substituting himself… — John Stott Copy Share Image
“To properly do penance one must express contrition for one’s sins and perform acts to repair the damage caused by those transgressions.… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
It seems the more I think about not sinning, the more I sin, but the more I think about just loving Jesus,… — John Wimber Copy Share Image
God's eye does not slumber. He knows every sin that is hidden from mortal eye. — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
“He [Muffat] experienced a sense of pleasure mingled with remorse, the sort of pleasure peculiar to those Catholics whom the fear of… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
Satanists are encouraged to indulge in the seven deadly sins, as they need hurt no one; they were only invented by the… — Anton Szandor LaVey 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
The religious quality of Marxism also explains a characteristic attitude of the orthodox Marxist toward opponents. To him, as to any believer… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
