Sin Quotes - Page 2

• The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Dream, Future

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.568, Wordsworth Editions

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• Children of God should not make a general confession by acknowledging their innumerable sins in a vague manner, because such confession does not provide conscience opportunity to do its perfect work. They ought to allow the Holy Spirit through their conscience to point out their sins one by one. Christians must accept its reproach and be willing, according to the mind of the Spirit, to eliminate everything which is contrary to God.

  Watchman Nee

  Christian, Children, Opportunity

  Watchman Nee (2009). “The Spiritual Man”, p.496, Christian Fellowship Publishers

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• The sin of worldliness is a preoccupation with the things of this temporal life. It's accepting and going along with the views and practices of society around us without discerning if they are biblical. I believe that the key to our tendencies toward worldliness lies primarily in the two words “going along”. We simply go along with the values and practices of society.

  Jerry Bridges

  Lying, Believe, Biblical

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• The solution to staying on the right side of the fine line between using and abusing grace is repentance. The road to repentance is godly sorrow (2 Corinthians 7:10). Godly sorrow is developed when we focus on the true nature of sin as an offense against God rather than something that makes us feel guilty.

  Jerry Bridges

  Godly, Focus, Grace

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• It is an unfortunate thing for the Christian to be melancholy. If there is any man in the world that has a right to have a bright, clear face and a flashing eye, it is the man whose sins are forgiven him, who is saved with God's salvation.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Eye, Men

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• Sorrow for sin should be the keenest sorrow; joy in the Lord should be the loftiest joy.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Joy, Suffering, Sorrow

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1873). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons Preached and Revised”, p.533

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• Let your tears fall because of sin, but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of man.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Fall, Eye, Son

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• How often God takes away our consolations, that we may only love Him for Himself; and reveals our sinfulness, that we may better appreciate the completeness of his salvation!

  F.B. Meyer

  Love, God, Christian

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• So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.

  Francois Fenelon

  Thinking, Self, Long

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• Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.

  C. S. Lewis

  Motivational, Thinking, Incessantly

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “God in the Dock”, p.127, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Though we may now think some sins light and little, if the Lord awaken the conscience, we shall feel even the smallest sin heavy upon our souls.

  Matthew Henry

  Thinking, Light, Soul

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• Sin is no little thing. It girded the Redeemer’s head with thorns, and pierced his heart . . . Look upon all sin as that which crucified the Saviour, and you will see it to be ‘exceeding sinful’.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Looks, Littles

  C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.71, Hendrickson Publishers

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• While sin is overflowing, [grace] pours itself forth so exuberantly, that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs it.

  John Calvin

  Grace, Overcoming, Flood

  John Calvin (2012). “Commentary on Romans”, p.125, Ravenio Books

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• Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.

  John Newton

  Religious, Jesus, Memories

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• When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade away.

  R. T. Kendall

  Spirit, Excuse, Absent

  R. T. Kendall, Joy Strang (2005). “By Love Transformed”, p.143, Charisma Media

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• Any concept of grace that makes us feel more comfortable sinning is not biblical grace. God's grace never encourages us to live in sin, on the contrary, it empowers us to say no to sin and yes to truth.

  Randy Alcorn

  Biblical, Empowering, Grace

  Randy Alcorn (2009). “The Grace and Truth Paradox: Responding with Christlike Balance”, p.82, Multnomah

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• The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace, our badness with His goodness. The overwhelming focus of the Bible is not the work of the redeemed but the work of the Redeemer. Which means that the Bible is not first a recipe for Christian living but a revelation book of Jesus who is the answer to our un-Christian living.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christian, Jesus, Book

  Tullian Tchividjian (2013). “One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World”, p.31, David C Cook

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• The world has lost the power to blush over its vice; the Church has lost her power to weep over it.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Church, Vices, World

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• We have to recognize that sin is a fact, not a defect; sin is red-handed mutiny against God. Either God or sin must die in my life...If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed.

  Oswald Chambers

  Mutiny, Red, Facts

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• Be killing sin or it will be killing you.

  John Owen

  Killing

  John Owen (1842). “The Mortification of Sin in Believers: Containing the Necessity, Nature and Means of It; with a Resolution of Sundry Cases of Conscience Thereto Belonging”, p.9

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• There is the seed of all sins--of the vilest and worst of sins--in the best of men.

  Thomas Brooks

  Men, Best Of Me, Worst

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.41

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• When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Struggle, Done, Flesh

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2015). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.116, SCM Press

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• Where we might think of sin as slip-ups or missteps, God views sin as a godless attitude that leads to godless action.

  Max Lucado

  Attitude, Thinking, Views

  Max Lucado (2007). “Lucado 3-in-1: Traveling Light, Next Door Savior, Come Thirsty”, p.30, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Thinking, Savior

  Spurgeon, Charles H. (2015). “Charles Spurgeon: An Autobiography”, p.101, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony

  John Stott

  Children, Together, May

  John Stott (2015). “TNTC Letters of John”, p.150, SPCK

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