Cutting Quote by Meister Eckhart

“One of the disconcerting and delightful teaching of the master was: "God is closer to sinners than to saints." This is how he explained…

— Ernest Kurtz

“When we fail, we cut the string. Then God ties it up again, making a knot and thereby bringing us a little closer to…

— Sharon A. Hersh

“Some rabbis say that, at birth, we are each tied to God with a string, and that every time we sin, the string breaks.…

— Rachel Held Evans

When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and…

— Anonymous

Our fundamental sin is that we place ourselves in the position of God and divide the world between what we judge to be good…

— Gregory A. Boyd

Sin is a clenched fist and a blow in the face of God.

— Joseph Parker

Sin has a way of shrinking God down and puffing ourselves up.

— Louie Giglio

Sin keeps a man from prayer, and prayer keeps a man from sin.

— Brigham Young

“A deeper intimacy with God sharpens our awareness of sin, which causes a stronger need for grace and a freer offering of mercy.”

— alisa hope wagner

You and your sins must separate or you and your God will never come together. No one sin may keep you; they must all…

— Charles Spurgeon

In the beginning, sin is like a thread of a spider's web. But in the end, it becomes like the cable of a ship.

— Rabbi Akiva

Sin has caused our affections to stray, propelling us to worship relationships, achievement, and work-everything but God.

— Timothy Keller