To sin is to be off the mark, that is, to inhibit development, contracting backward into regression rather than expanding forward into… — Connie Zweig Copy Share Image
Sin is the second most powerful force in the universe, for it sent Jesus to the cross. Only one force is greater-the… — Billy Graham 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
“When seeing the simple truth means recognizing that we're in sin, we would rather see things as being complicated.” — Anna Sofia Botkin Copy Share Image
Jesus loves sinners. He only loves sinners. He has never turned anyone away who came to Him for forgiveness, and He died… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the… — Mary Astell Copy Share Image
Non-co-operation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
That the Father and Son would love sinners that much is beyond our comprehension--but it ought to awaken a response of love… — Dave Hunt Copy Share Image
Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . .… — Hyrum W. Smith Copy Share Image
God never excuses sin. And He is always consistent with that ethic. Whenever we start to question whether God really hates sin,… — Francis Chan Copy Share Image
“He took from my body, my heart, my soul. In return he gave himself to me the only way he knew how:… — K.I. Lynn Copy Share Image
“The teaching that is all too common today is dangerous. The modern-day church service makes no distinction between saint and sinner. The… — Charles Haddon Spurgeon Copy Share Image
When you heart is ablaze with the love of God, when you love other people - especially the ripsnorting sinners - so… — Catherine Marshall Copy Share Image
I try to keep in mind Oscar Wilde's comment that "saints always have a past and sinners always have a future," so… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Yet 'tis Thy voice, my God,… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Never be petty. Do not feed resentments against anyone. I prefer good-hearted sinners to so called good people who are intolerant and… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Now I know I'm not a saint, I been a sinner all my life, I ain't tryin to hide my flaws I'd… — Cage The Elephant Copy Share Image
Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
“The essence of sin is we human beings substituting ourselves for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
“Christ will receive all who come to Him, but Christ will not be sweet to them until sin is first bitter in… — Joel R. Beeke Copy Share Image
It's another sin. Worse than all the other ones, which are immediate, violent and hot...It's the eighth deadly sin. The one God… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father,… — D. A. Carson Copy Share Image
We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
When I come before these men I do not have to explain that we are all sinners. They have committed every sin… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
Sinners, hear and consider, if you wilfully condemn your souls to bestiality, God will condemn them to perpetual misery. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners--miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Sin will take you where you didn't plan to go. It will keep you there longer than you planned to stay. And… — James L. Nicodem Copy Share Image
In this life ain't no happy endings; Only pure beginnings followed by years of sinning and fake repentance. — J. Cole Copy Share Image
When a majority of my prayers are for others to change, I've gotten off track. Lord, change this sinner's heart. — Mark Hart Copy Share Image
And so about many other things of the same nature, we are trying to make people believe these things, and we make… — Elias Hicks Copy Share Image
There is no reason to believe that the Holy Spirit ever leaves awakened sinners, only as they leave the truth of God… — Ichabod Spencer Copy Share Image
It wasn't a potential atonement actuated by the sinner, it was an actual atonement initiated by the savior. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
we have made an extraordinary transition. From moral absolutes to moral relativism. ... Moral problems become medical ones and yesterday's sinners become… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Sin is wrong, not because of what it does to me, or my spouse, or child, or neighbor, but because it is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that… — Archibald Alexander Copy Share Image
This is the mystery of the riches of divine grace for sinners; for by a wonderful exchange our sins are now not… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Sin had no sooner come into the world than God came in grace seeking the sinner, and so from the first question,… — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
“Note, Our sorrow upon any account is sinful and inordinate when it diverts us from our duty to God and embitters our… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
The popular gospel of this day, is the laughing-stock of Hell; it dare neither damn the sinner, nor sanctify the saint. — Catherine Booth Copy Share Image
