Sin Quotes

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The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward with a claim...to… — Sigmund Freud
Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad and theology makes them sinful. — Martin Luther
Evil: That which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake — H. L. Mencken
The faults of which we ask you [God] the remittance, it is you who make us commit them; the traps of which we implore you… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At what point sin… — Bertrand Russell
The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify… — John Owen
The mortification of indwelling sin remaining in our mortal bodies, that it may not have life and power to bring forth the works or deeds… — John Owen
Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be… — John Owen
Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom… — John Owen
The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh. — John Owen
Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident. — John Owen
All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit. — John Owen
Not to be daily mortifying sin, is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who hath furnished us with a… — John Owen
Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world; therefore it is always to be mortified. — John Owen
Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness, is the soul and substance of all false religion… — John Owen
There is not a day but sin foils or is foiled, prevails or is prevailed on; and it will be so whilst we live in… — John Owen
Now nothing can prevent this but mortification; that withers the root and strikes at the head of sin every hour, so that whatever it aims… — John Owen
Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures... — John Owen
By faith ponder on this, that though thou art no way able in or by thyself to get the conquest over thy distemper, though thou… — John Owen
When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet,… — John Owen

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