Your heart mirrors not His love, Rusty with your sins it is, Remove this rust and you shall Perceive how Glorious He… — Rumi Copy Share Image
God's holiness demands that sin be punished - but God's love has provided the way of redemption through Christ. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
When my conscience under the Holy Spirit makes me aware of a specific sin I should at once call that sin sin… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Thine to work as well as pray, Clearing thorny wrongs away; Plucking up the weeds of sin, Letting heaven's warm sunshine in. — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
I always think of my sins when I weed. They grow apace in the same way and are harder still to get… — Helena Rutherfurd Ely Copy Share Image
Pride causes us to care more about what our non-Christian friends think of us than what God will do to them in… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
Let your tears fall because of sin, but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Telling people they don't have a sin nature doesn't promote sin anymore than telling a slave they are free promotes slavery.” — D.R. Silva Copy Share Image
Thank and glorify His Beloved Son, who, with indescribable suffering, gave His life on Calvary's cross to pay the debt of mortal… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
A healthy church is not a church that's perfect and without sin. It has not figured everything out. Rather, it's a church… — Mark Dever Copy Share Image
See, my children, a person who is in a state of sin is always sad. Whatever he does, he is weary and… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; —… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
A lot of Christians have been taught a story that begins in chapter 3 of Genesis, instead of chapter 1. If your… — Rob Bell Copy Share Image
Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Stephen prayed for his persecutors, who had not been able even to listen to the Name of Christ, when he said of… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, is the holy of holies of Jewish time. It is that rarest of phenomena, a Jewish… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Only the old are innocent. That is what the Victorians understood, and the Christians. Original sin is a property of the young.… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Happiness is not a sin, so let’s spread our wings and prepare to be lucky. ("C’est quand le bonheur ?")” — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The saint, we are told, once lived a life of sin - nothing spectacular, of course, just the usual things. — Nissim Ezekiel Copy Share Image
The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
He was the freeman whom the truth made free; Who first of all, the bands of Satan broke; Who broke the bands… — Robert Pollok Copy Share Image
So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
“But in all His dealings with His creatures God has maintained the principles of righteousness by revealing sin in its true character-by… — Ellen G. White Copy Share Image
In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are. — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Praise is God's sunlight in the heart. It destroys sin germs. It ripens the fruits of the Spirit. It is the oil… — Smith Wigglesworth Copy Share Image
It was humanly impossible for the disciples to free themselves from their selfish pursuit of self-exaltation, just as it's impossible for us… — C. J. Mahaney Copy Share Image
Christ, having sacrificed himself once, is to eternity a certain and valid sacrifice for the sins of all faithful. — Huldrych Zwingli Copy Share Image
Have you been tormented with fears and doubts? Bombarded with temptation to sin? Try praising the Lord, and watch Satan flee. — Nancy Leigh DeMoss Copy Share Image
“People are always ashamed of the misery that has befallen them, as though it were an act of divine retribution for a… — Pascal Garnier Copy Share Image
We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In the Bible, the opposite of Sin, with a capital 'S,' is not virtue - it's faith: faith in a God who… — Robert Farrar Capon Copy Share Image
Hell is the backdrop that reveals the profound and unbelievable grace of the cross. It brings to light the enormity of our… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in… — Erwin McManus 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
God made bees, and bees made honey, God made man, and man made money, Pride made the devil, and the devil made… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling (1… — Bible Copy Share Image
Sin cannot tear you away from him [Christ] even though you commit adultery a hundred times a day and commit as many… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
It's a sin to hate, and for that reason alone, we must not hate the Normans... We can, however, thoroughly dislike them,… — Julie Garwood Copy Share Image