Sin Quotes - Page 17

• I'll tell you, I've seen the lightning flash. I've heard the thunder roll. I felt sin-breakers dashing, trying to conquer my soul. But I heard the voice of Jesus saying still to fight on.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Jesus, Fighting, Voice

  "Why Jesus Called A Man A Fool". Speech delivered at Mount Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church, Chicago, Illinois, August 27, 1967.

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• The poor quality of Christian that grows out of our modern evangelistic meeting may be accounted for by the absence of real repentance accompanying the initial spiritual experience of the converts. And the absence of repentance is the result of an inadequate view of sin and sinfulness held by those who present themselves in the inquiry room.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Spiritual, Real

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• It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Men, Riches, Lacking

  St Thomas Aquinas (2013). “Summa Theologica, Volume 3 (Part II, Second Section)”, p.1680, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The greatest sin is to be unconscious.

  Carl Jung

  Unconscious

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• We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. . . . This leads to frightful results. . . . The British State considers it the duty of an Englishman to kill people who are not English whenever a collection of elderly gentlemen in Westminster tells him to do so. . . . Church and State are placable enemies of both intelligence and virtue.

  Bertrand Russell

  Elderly, People, Gentleman

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• Augustine says that we may, out of our dead sins, make stepping stones to rise to the heights of perfection. What did he mean by that? He meant that the memory of our falls may breed in us such a humility, such a distrust of self, such a constant clinging to Christ as we could never have had without the experience of our own weakness.

  James Stalker

  Memories, Fall, Mean

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• If envy was not such a tearing thing to feel it would be the most comic of sins. It is usually, if not always, based on a complete misunderstanding of another person's situation.

  Monica Furlong

  Envy, Would Be, Comic

  Monica Furlong (1982). “Christian Uncertainties”

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• I don't just commit sin. Apart from God, I am sinful. My problem is not just what I do; it's who I am without His nature.

  Beth Moore

  Who I Am, Problem, Commit

  Beth Moore (2013). “Jesus, the One and Only”, p.95, B&H Publishing Group

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• To whom much is given, much is required. Righteousness exalts a nation...but sin is a reproach to any people

  Jonathan Cahn

  People, Given, Righteousness

  Jonathan Cahn (2012). “The Harbinger”, p.20, Charisma Media

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• Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is at the same time the most egotistic thing.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Fall, Dread, Impotence

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• We might say God's wrath is His justice in action, rendering to everyone his just due, which, because of our sin is always judgment.

  Jerry Bridges

  Wrath, Justice, Might

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• We can choose to humble ourselves by confessing and forsaking our sins and being born of God.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Humble, Sin Of Pride, Born

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• Tourism is a mortal sin.

  Werner Herzog

  Tourism, Mortal Sin, Mortals

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• For me as a woman pride is not really sin, but rather something that I still have to learn. The male conception of the person who rebels against God by affirming himself, by acting proudly, arrogantly, and without constraints, is not a woman's concern. Rather, we women are in danger of not developing any pride, of never becoming independent, of constantly remaining within too narrow boundaries.

  Dorothee Solle

  Independent, Pride, Acting

  Dorothee Sölle (1990). “Thinking about God: an introduction to theology”, Trinity Pr Intl

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• There is something servile in the interpretation of sin as crime which infringes the will of God and calls for legal proceedings on the part of God. Sin is dividedness, a state of deficiency, incompleteness, dissociation, enslavement, hatred, but it is not disobedience and not formal violation of the will of God.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Hatred, Crime, States

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• There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstand, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous, and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Evil, Imagination

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe in a higher power. I've seen and been around people who are very extreme with their faith and pointing fingers and going, "You shouldn't do that because it's a sin against God." It's like, you know what? We're people. We're human beings. We're fallible. We have faults.

  Malcolm D. Lee

  Believe, People, Faults

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• What was my great sin? To have revealed the private property of the bank - well if this is being a criminal, then maybe I'm a great criminal.

  Jose Mujica

  Criminals, Wells, Property

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I'm not saying Christopher Pyne and all them are my enemies, they're great blokes, shouted me a few beers a couple of times which I like, it's - we have got to sit down with the people like that. We have got to sit down with people like that and negotiate and work our way through. If we don't do that then we're just going to continue the sins of the past.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Couple, Beer, Past

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• The killing of innocent people is a sin.

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  People, Killing, Innocent

  "Dateline" with George Negus, www.sbs.com.au. April 18, 2010.

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• If you believe in God you get to the point where (you feel) "Yeah, you know what, God forgave my sins but I still have to forgive myself."

  Kevin Sorbo

  Believe, Forgiving, Yeah

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I think there's a ton of things about being Catholic that are hard. Going to Church every week is tough. I'd like to go to church, like, every couple of months. Going to confession is hard. Confessing my sins out loud is a very difficult thing.

  Lino Rulli

  Couple, Thinking, Catholic

  "A talk with Lino Rulli, 'Catholic Guy' & 'Sinner'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• Sometimes when we are afraid to confess an area of brokenness or sin in our lives, we know the changes we need to make.

  Anne Marie Miller

  Needs, Sometimes, Areas

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• The word "salvation" denotes rescue. Rescue? What from? Well, of course, ultimately death. And since it is sin that colludes with the forces of evil and decay, sin leads to death. So we are rescued from sin and death.

  N. T. Wright

  Evil, Decay, Salvation

  Interview with Trevin Wax, blogs.thegospelcoalition.org. November 19, 2007.

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• Every gazette brings accounts of the untutored freaks of the wind,--shipwrecks and hurricanes which the mariner and planter acceptas special or general providences; but they touch our consciences, they remind us of our sins. Another deluge would disgrace mankind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wind, Special, Hurricanes

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1025, Delphi Classics

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