Every human activity, except sin, can be done for God's pleasure, if you do it with an attitude of praise. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously... Do not for a moment imagine that this… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I always had a problem with original sin; I always had a problem with the exclusivity of the church and a lot… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
My god how gentle you are with me in spite of my great ignorance and how merciful You are with me in… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
But as the clerical pretensions are more exacting than all others, being put forward with an assertion that no answer is possible… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Jesus Christ. This is what sin feels like," he rasped. "Wrong and right, at the same time. Life and death. Blond, long-legged,… — Tessa Bailey Copy Share Image
It is a sin when I place myself deliberately in the place of temptation… either because I enjoy the prospect or because… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
I think we as believers can be secure in our relationship with Christ. I'm not saying that sin isn't sin. I'm not… — Alan Chambers Copy Share Image
I think it is a sin to look at another person as inferior to yourself because of race or because of ethnic… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“You can count the bruises on your heart easily enough, but numbering sins is a far tricker matter. Men are eternally forgetting… — R. Scott Bakker Copy Share Image
“I came to England weak in body, and, in consequence of much study, as I suppose, I was taken ill on May… — George Müller Copy Share Image
I realized that there is something else that is influencing people to behave like that, and that's the taking of the souls… — Ralph Sarchie Copy Share Image
That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
If you go forward in the spirit of the original apostles and followers of Jesus Christ, trusting not in man but in… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
For those women sin against God when they rub their skin with ointments, stain their cheeks with rouge, and make their eyes… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven! — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor. — Walter Hilton Copy Share Image
“The way to innocence, to the uncreated and to God leads on, not back, not back to the wolf or to the… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Virtue, should there be anyone who still ignores the fact, always finds pitfalls on the extremely difficult path of perfection, but sin… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought! My sin, not in part but the whole, Is nailed to the cross,… — Horatio Spafford Copy Share Image
Believing that you are the righteousness of God through Christ Jesus and simply receiving the gift of no condemnation gives you the… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Man's will is free in the sense that man can choose to do anything in keeping with his nature . . .… — Henry Clarence Thiessen Copy Share Image
Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all… — Joseph Alleine Copy Share Image
Oh, the jealousy, the greed is the unraveling. It's the unraveling and it undoes all the joy that could be. . — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Wakefulness is the only saintliness there is, and sleepiness, unconsciousness, is the only sin there is; all other sins are born out… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The essence of sin is a shift from God centeredness to a self-centeredness. The essence of salvation is a denial of self,… — Henry Blackaby Copy Share Image
Total depravity means the entire absence of holiness, not the highest intensity of sin. A totally depraved man is not as bad… — William Greenough Thayer Shedd Copy Share Image
“Self-pity is the hens' besetting sin," remarked Mr. Payton. "Foolish fowl. How they came to achieve anything as perfect as the egg… — Elizabeth Enright Copy Share Image
Lore? Tell me what Sin said about you being tortured wasn't true,' He didn't look at her as he moved toward the… — Larissa Ione Copy Share Image
For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men's hearts are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy. — Isidore of Seville Copy Share Image
In the past we believed both sexes were born with original sin. Today, we have come to unconsciously believe in the original… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
But I'm no hero. I had to keep my dirty little secret. The worst sin I committed was holding it in; letting… — Julie Anne Peters Copy Share Image
All sin is selfish, whether it be lying, cheating, stealing, immorality, covetousness, or idleness. Sin is for one's own ends, not for… — Derek A. Cuthbert Copy Share Image
Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The question is not, "Do you know you are a sinner?" the question is this, "As you have heard me preach the… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
![“That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.” quote by D. H. Lawrence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/238/d-h-lawrence-426_adam_that-was-the-birth-of-sin-not-doing-it-b_705977.png)
![“Too often [the Church] is weighted down and burdened with the sins and failings of her children; too often she appears disfigured and discouraged.” quote by Pope Benedict XVI](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a85/pope-benedict-xvi-414_children_too-often-the-church-is-weighted-down-an_1182585.jpg)
