“Church is a place where I can say, unashamedly, "I don't need to sin. I need another sinner.” — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin. — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope. — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible. — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
“Not doing anything is doing something and choosing to look away is a passive but no less mortal sin.” — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Sinners are attractive because they are loved; they are not loved because they are attractive. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“Sin’s voice is the inward speech of human intellect that desires to explore regions beyond the structures of reality set in place… — Phillip Michael Garner Copy Share Image
“What sorts of sin?" Any sort. When other people commit them, you are startled, but when you commit them yourself, they seem… — Elspeth Huxley Copy Share Image
Lord, I am in this world to show Your mercy to others...For my part I will glorify You by making known how… — Claude de la Colombiere Copy Share Image
The cross of Christ only triumphs in the breast of believers over the devil and the flesh, sin and sinners, when their… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“This is how sin works: it whispers to us about the goodness of something not good. It makes distortions feel good. It… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
“When priests go bad, they go very bad indeed, and commit crimes that would make the average sinner pale.” — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us - an energy which, if not thus distorted, would have blossomed… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
When you are depressed, bear in mind the Lord's command to Peter to forgive a sinner seventy times seven (cf. Mt. 18:22).… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Remember us in your prayers that we grow not weary in well doing. It is hard to work for years with pure… — David Livingstone Copy Share Image
When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to sink, what… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
If, in the case of the worst sinners and those who formerly sinned much against God, when afterwards they believe, the remission… — Cyprian Copy Share Image
Voluntary poverty isn't going around with some burlap bag around you and imitating the poor. It means being indifferent to the material,… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
Who hated sin more than the saints? But they did not hate the sinners at the same time, nor condemn them, nor… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
Every one sins!! There is only one sin that really there is no coming back from YOU SHALL NOT KILL !! — Kevin McCarty Copy Share Image
“The greatest sin you can commit against your own life is to know what you want and not to act.” — Kim Stafford Copy Share Image
If we would make it evident that our conversion is sound, we must loathe and hate sin from the heart. — Richard Sibbes Copy Share Image
You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not! — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
We...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough. — Scott Hahn Copy Share Image
“Do not emphasise sin more than forgiveness or justice more than mercy.” — Brother Pedro Copy Share Image
A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Faith is the act of trust by which one being, a sinner, commits himself to another being, a Saviour. — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
The church is not a museum for pristine saints, but a hospital ward for broken sinners. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
We are all sinners. But God heals us with an abundance of grace, mercy and tenderness — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
