Sin Quotes - Page 12

• The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?

  William Shakespeare

  Measure For Measure, Tempted

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 162

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• The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

  William Ames

  Starting Over, Corruption, Stains

  William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”

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• Every sin provokes its punishment.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Punishment, Provoking

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Pain is the outcome of sin.

  Gautama Buddha

  Pain, Outcomes

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• If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

  Hyman Rickover

  Inspirational, Funny, Twilight

  The New York Times, November 3, 1986.

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• The knowledge of my sin
  Is half-repentance.

  Bayard Taylor

  Half, Repentance

  Bayard Taylor (1873). “Lars: A Pastoral of Norway”, p.93

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• You will always know whether you are delivered from the guilt of sin by answering this question: Am I delivered from the love of sin?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Guilt, Compromise, Knows

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 37”, p.128, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Laws can discover sin, but not remove it

  John Milton

  Law, Remove

  John Milton (1754). “Milton's Paradise Lost; Or, The Fall of Man: With Historical, Philosophical, Critical, & Explanatory Notes”, p.417

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• Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer.... An instrument strung, but preferring to play itself because it thinks it knows the tune better than the Musician

  C. S. Lewis

  Mother, Pride, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• There are no small sins against a great God

  J. I. Packer

  J. I. Packer (2009). “Rediscovering Holiness: Know the Fullness of Life with God”, p.97, Baker Books

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• 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 saves us.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  God, Religious, Leaving

  Eugene H. Peterson (2012). “A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society”, p.53, InterVarsity Press

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• Most of God's people are contented to be saved from the hell that is without; they are not so anxious to be saved from the hell that is within.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  People, Compromise, Hell

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Andrew Alexander Bonar (1852). “Memoir and remains of the rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, minister of St. Peter's church, Dundee”, p.198

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• I have firmly decided to bite the dust with a minimum of medical assistance when my time comes, and up to then to sin to my wicked heart's content.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Heart, Dust

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• Two sorts of peace are more to be dreaded than all the troubles in the world — peace with sin, and peace in sin.

  Joseph Alleine

  Two, World, Trouble

  Joseph Alleine, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Alarm to the Unconverted”, Lulu.com

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• Be a light unto the world, a standard to others. You can live in the world and not partake of the sins of the world. You can live life joyously, beautifully, unmarred by the ugliness of sin. This is our confidence in you.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Life, Light, World

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• In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin. We are not speaking of a wholesome view of self-worth, which is best established by a close relationship with God. But we are speaking of pride as the universal sin, as someone has described it. . . . Essentially, pride is a "my will" rather than "thy will" approach to life. The opposite of pride is humbleness, meekness, submissiveness, or teachableness.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Life, Pride, Self Worth

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• IMPENITENCE, n. A state of mind intermediate in point of time between sin and punishment.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Time, Punishment, Mind

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.119, University of Georgia Press

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• I came into the world charged with the duty to uphold the right in every place, to destroy sin and evil... the only reason I took birth was to see that righteousness may flourish, that good may live, and tyrants be torn out by their roots.

  Guru Gobind Singh

  Tyrants, Roots, Evil

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• One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

  John Darnielle

  Way, Get Real, Hard

  "John Darnielle Tells the Story Behind the Mountain Goats' Biblical New LP". Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. September 8, 2009.

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• It's not a problem that we're sinners; it's a problem that we aren't ashamed of our sin and don't seek forgiveness.

  Pope Francis

  Problem, Ashamed, Sinner

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• Without the gospel we hate ourselves instead of our sin.

  Timothy Keller

  Hate

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• The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no more sins because all the sinners will have been wiped out.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Awful, Lasts

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.14, New Directions Publishing

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• To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.

  Moliere

  Wicked, Scandal, Privacy

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• All errors are just ordinary, what extraordinary sin can you commit? All the sins have been committed already. You cannot find a new sin - it is very difficult, it is almost impossible to be original about sin. For millions of years people have committed everything that can be committed. To be thrown in hell for your sins. Now this is too much! you can throw a man into hell for five years, ten years, twenty years, fifty years. If a man has lived for seventy years you can throw him there for seventy years.and that is if you only believe in one life. It is good that they believe in one life.

  Rajneesh

  Believe, Men, Errors

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• Will you have the stamina and inspiration necessary to dream up bigger, better, more original sins and wilder, wetter, more interesting problems? Do you realize how demanding it will be to turn yourself into a wildly disciplined, radically curious, fiercely tender, ironically sincere, ingeniously loving, aggressively sensitive, blasphemously reverent, lustfully compassionate master of rowdy bliss?

  Rob Brezsny

  Dream, Inspiration, Interesting

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.62, Frog Books

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