Sin Quotes

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People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is more joy in heaven over a converted sinner than over a righteous person standing firm. A leader in battle has more love for… — Pope Gregory I
When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to sink, what can save you,… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne
True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His Law,… — George Whitefield
To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business. — Leo Tolstoy
Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them. — Elbert Hubbard
To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be… — Alphonsus Liguori
Men tell us in these days that sin is what you think it is. Well, it is not. Sin is what God thinks it is.… — John G. Lake
Any concept of grace that makes us feel more comfortable sinning is not biblical grace. God's grace never encourages us to live in sin, on… — Randy Alcorn
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a… — C.S. Lewis
In short, a man must be set free from the sin he is , which makes him do the sin he does . — George MacDonald
Get alone with Jesus and either tell Him that you do not want sin to die out in you - or else tell Him that… — Oswald Chambers
Beloved, if any unholiness exists in the nature, it is not there by the consent of the Spirit of God. If unholiness is in your… — John G. Lake
Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish for spiritual things then it… — Susanna Wesley
It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin. — Oswald Chambers
Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism. — Philip Yancey
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well. — Louis Kronenberger
To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth. — George MacDonald
Heart-suffering because of sin is the best proof that the Holy Spirit dwells in your heart. — Johann Arndt
I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God. — George Eliot

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