Eagerness Quote by Desiderius Erasmus

Wealth, honors, pleasures, is not so eagerly to be desired as the forgiveness of our sins.

— R. A. Torrey

Desire of greatness is a godlike sin.

— John Dryden

“Sin, for instance, is an effort to gain something against the will of God; but the will of God is all that holds us…

— F.J. Sheed

“Thus the defective doctrine of sin and the shallow idea of joy, working together, of necessity produce a superficial kind of person and a…

— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“Sin can't enslave a person who is utterly confident and sure and hope-filled in the infinite happiness of life with Christ in the future.”

— John Piper

To one who has led a virtuous life, to sin is the easiest thing in the world. No experience of unpleasant consequences grits that…

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

“All the pleasure of sin cannot be compared to the satisfaction with sweetness of life in the spirit.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Sin endeavors to subject the blessed God to the humor and lust of every person in the world

— Stephen Charnock

“Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God. Sin is seeking to become oneself, to…

— Timothy Keller

“Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, might it have its own course, it would go…

— John Owen

“Sin is the preclusion of self-worth.”

— Benjamin Aubrey Myers

There is no sin but the lack of love.

— Paulo Coelho