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Sin Quotes by Timothy Keller
- The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life. The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s…
- Sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge… There are two ways…
- Repentance out of mere fear is really sorrow for the consequences of sin, sorrow over the danger of sin — it bends the will away…
- Because sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge just as each…
- There is no evil that the father’s love cannot pardon and cover, there is no sin that is a match for his grace.
- The sin under all other sins is a lack of joy in Christ.
- The greatness of prayer is nothing but an extension of the greatness and glory of God in our lives To fail to pray, then, is…
- Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin.
- The sin that is most destructive in your life right now is the one you are most defensive about.
- The more you see your own flaws and sins, the more precious, electrifying, and amazing God’s grace appears to you.
- If you're avoiding sin and living morally so that God will have to bless you and save you, then you may be looking to Jesus…
- Adam wasn't lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin.
- Pride is the carbon-monoxide of Sin. It silently and slowly kills you without you even knowing.
- How does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
- There is no sin that is a match for God's grace.
- The problem with the world is it blames problems on things besides sin and identifies salvation on things besides God.
- Through the person and work of Jesus Christ, God fully accomplishes salvation for us, rescuing us from judgment for sin into fellowship with him, and…
- Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin. Without the gospel we’re motivated through all sorts of awful fear and pride to change…
- Most churches make the mistake of selecting as leaders the confident, the competent, and the successful. But what you most need in a leader is…
- For every one look at your sins, take five looks at your Savior.
- If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of…
- Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.
- Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
- The secret to freedom from enslaving patterns of sin is worship. You need worship. You need great worship. You need weeping worship. You need glorious…
- Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that…
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