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Sin Quotes by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
- There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin.
- As Christ bore and received us as sinners so we in his fellowship may bear and receive sinners into the fellowship of Christ through the…
- There is no worse sin than unbelief toward the gospel.
- Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin, living in lies…
- The more isolated a person is, the more destructive the power of sin over him.
- My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.
- Will not the very moment of great disillusionment with my brother or sister be incomparably wholesome for me becuase it so thoroughly teaches me that…
- In a word, live together in the forgiveness of your sins, for without it no human fellowship, least of all a marriage, can survive. Don’t…
- Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.
- Nothing can be more cruel than the leniency which abandons others to their sin. Nothing can be more compassionate than the severe reprimand which calls…
- The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin…
- The earthly form of Christ is the form that died on the cross. The image of God is the image of Christ crucified. It is…
- Anything I cannot thank God for for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin.…
- Christ became our Brother in order to help us. Through him our brother has become Christ for us in the power and authority of the…
- If my sinfulness appears to me to be in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still…
- We are torn out of our own existence and set down in the midst of the holy history of God on earth. There God dealt…
More Sin Quotes
- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from… — Saint Augustine
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
- To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it. — Saint Augustine
- Don't let your sins turn into bad habits. — Teresa of Avila
- It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of… — Teresa of Avila
- My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered… — Teresa of Avila
- While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they… — Teresa of Avila
- As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic. — Michelle Bachelet