Appearance Quote by John Nelson Darby

“Within a religious framework, a belief in free will supports the notion of sin—which seems to justify not only harsh punishment in this life…

— Sam Harris

Although a man has so well purged his mind that nothing can trouble or deceive him any more, yet he reached his present innocence…

— Seneca the Younger

“The Christian does not avoid sin to achieve salvation, but rather salvation brings him to a desire not to sin. The closer that one's…

— Criss Jami

A man may commit sin and yet be ignorant of it, and fancy himself innocent when he is guilty... We shall do well to…

— J. C. Ryle

No sin is committed merely because a thought enters the mind, provided it is not made welcome. Perhaps we may use the figure that…

— Norman Vincent Peale

Another doctrine repugnant to Civill Society, is that whatsoever a man does against his Conscience, is Sinne ; and it dependeth on the presumption…

— Thomas Hobbes

In short, a man must be set free from the sin he is , which makes him do the sin he does .

— George MacDonald

Free-will cannot will good and of necessity serves sin.

— John Calvin

A man does not necessarily sin who does that which our reason and our conscience condemn.

— J. G. Holland

“Conviction, then, is no part of a sinner’s salvation—but the clear practical knowledge of the fact that he cannot save himself, and is entirely…

— Archibald Alexander

The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing…

— Bertrand Russell

“The jubilation of God's salvation corresponds to man's very real condition of lostness ... In Scripture, there is never any mention of a relativizing…

— G C Berkouwer