"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." This is such a reassuring thing. The world is in God's hands;… — Matthew Levering Copy Share Image
God didn't overlook your sins, lest he endorse them. He didn't punish you, lest he destroy you. He instead found a way… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The gospel is the proclamation of free love; the revelation of the boundless charity of God. Nothing less than this will suit… — Horatius Bonar Copy Share Image
For my heart is always with Him, day and night it thinks unceasingly of its heavenly and divine Friend, to whom it… — Elizabeth of the Trinity Copy Share Image
When the devil looks at a man who sincerely desires not to sin, he is not so unintelligent as to suggest to… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
The idea that God will pardon a rebel who has not given up his rebellion is contrary both to the Scriptures and… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that I shall obtain the highest amount of present happiness, I shall do most for God’s glory and the… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne Copy Share Image
All sin has its being and origin in the fact that man wants to be his own judge. And in wanting to… — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
And behold! He cometh with ten thousands of His holy ones To execute judgment upon all, And to destroy all the ungodly:… — Enoch Copy Share Image
A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetrated in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system, while… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
We cannot escape the conclusion that because of performance in the pre-existence some of us are born as Chinese, some as Japanese,… — Mark E. Petersen Copy Share Image
The ways of sin are curious . . . I guess if a man had to shuck off everything he had, inside… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I might say that the debate between atheists and Christians is rather stale to me, because the Christians say, "You must be… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
“Sin is when you turn away from God—or, in the other language, alienation occurs when the ego, that erratic, unreliable driver of… — Susan Howatch Copy Share Image
If you see your neighbor in sin, don't look only at this, but also think about what he has done or does… — Saint Basil Copy Share Image
“The idea of original sin--of guilt with no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no alternatives--inherently militates against self-esteem. The very… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
When Jesus stepped into the waters of the Jordan and was baptized by John the Baptist, he did so not because he… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
In obedience to humanity, the King of the universe come down from heaven! In obedience to humanity, he lives imprisoned on the… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
“My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring that person back, remember this:… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sin is misery, because it’s the perversion of our natures away from God. Sin deforms human life, which always leads to suffering.… — John Webster Copy Share Image
“The reason we commit “sins” is because, to some extent at least, we are failing to worship the one true God and… — N.T. Wright Copy Share Image
“We are sinners. But we should not take the failure to live up to this high moral standard as an authoritative objection… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
The saved sinner is prostrate in adoration, lost in wonder and praise. He knows repentance is not what we do in order… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
God was happy without humans before they were made; he would have continued happy had he simply destroyed them after they had… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All people make mistakes. All of us are sinners. All of us are criminals. All of us violate the law at some… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Every time I pray, I ask for forgiveness. I'm a sinner. I sin every single day. But I do know that God… — Mark Teixeira Copy Share Image
“But I cannot tell that to this old sinner, and I cannot comfort him either; he has made himself unable to hear… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With old liars who have been acting all their lives there are moments when they enter so completely into their part that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
First, let us be Gods, and then help others to be Gods. "Be and make." Let this be our motto. Say not… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
God’s grace in saving miserable sinners has been replaced by heretical teaching, such as saying that it is because we are so… — Jay Adams Copy Share Image
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me." The adage is true as long as you don't… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Man can sin against nature in two ways. First, when he sins against his specific rational nature, acting contrary to reason. In… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
“To every human being, sin is the ultimate undefeatable enemy. It captures and controls us all, and there is nothing we can… — Paul David Tripp Copy Share Image
No one is innocent in the tide of history. Everyone has kings and slaves in his past. Everyone has saints and sinners.… — Diana Peterfreund Copy Share Image
Sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge… There… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
Godliness has 'promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.' But the only way one can… — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
I hope that God forgive us, all of us sinners turn us back into beginners, put us up where the winners go,… — Lupe Fiasco Copy Share Image
The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Parenting changed for me when I finally realized it's not about being a perfect parent trying to raise perfect kids, but rather,… — Gary L. Thomas Copy Share Image
