Sin Quotes - Page 3

• People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.

  D. A. Carson

  Prayer, Thinking, Self

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• He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of chaos and beauty out of ugliness. He can transform a sin-blistered man into a paragon of virtue. The Spirit changes people. The Author of life is also the Transformer of life.

  R. C. Sproul

  Powerful, Men, Order

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• True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His Law, and in His people.

  George Whitefield

  Law, People, Soul

  George Whitefield (1828). “Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith”, p.369

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• Isn't it ironic that today people say, 'If you know the love of God, you don't have to worry when you go on in sin.' But the apostle John said, 'If you know the love of God, you won't be able to go on in sin.'

  John Piper

  People, Worry, Ironic

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• He works in us and with us, not against us or without us; so that his assistance is an encouragement to the facilitating of the work, and no occasion of neglect as to the work itself.

  John Owen

  Encouragement, Neglect, Assistance

  John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Overcoming Temptation and Sin”, Lulu.com

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• Some often repent, yet never reform; they resemble a man traveling in a dangerous path, who frequently starts and stops, but never turns back.

  Bonnell Thornton

  Men, Reform, Path

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• Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off your relish of spiritual things; in short, whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind; that thing is sin to you, however innocent it may be in itself.

  Susanna Wesley

  Spiritual, May, Innocent

  "Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings".

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• Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Christ, Rejoice

  Letter to Melanchthon, 1521, in 'Epistolae' (Jena, 1556) vol. 1, folio 345 verso

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• One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.

  John Bunyan

  Ships, Leaks, Pilgrims Progress

  'The Pilgrim's Progress' (1684) pt. 2

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• It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Christian, Jesus, Facts

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2015

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• Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Hypocrite, Hypocrisy

  'Pericles, Prince Of Tyre' (1606-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 92

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• Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden,
  but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hurtful, Forbidden Fruit, Poor Richard

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.35, Nayika Publishing

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• There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Thinking, Righteous Living

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• Lukewarm people don't really want to be saved from their sin; they want only to be saved from the penalty of their sin.

  Francis Chan

  People, Thought Provoking, Want

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.48, David C Cook

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• It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.

  Oswald Chambers

  Easy

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “God's Workmanship”, p.121, Discovery House

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• Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.

  Josh Billings

  Faith, Men, Comedy

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• True repentance is no light matter. It is a thorough change of heart about sin, a change showing itself in godly sorrow and humiliation - in heartfelt confession before the throne of grace - in a complete breaking off from sinful habits, and an abiding hatred of all sin. Such repentance is the inseparable companion of saving faith in Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Heart, Godly, Light

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• Stephen prayed for his persecutors, who had not been able even to listen to the Name of Christ, when he said of those very men by whom he was being stoned: "Lord, lay not this sin to their charge" And we see the result of this prayer in the case of the Apostle, for Paul, who kept the garments of those who were stoning Stephen, not long after became an apostle by the grace of God, having before been a persecutor.

  Ambrose

  Prayer, Men, Names

  St. Ambrose “The Sacred Writings of St. Ambrose”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart.

  Thomas Brooks

  Lying, Heart, Secret

  Thomas Brooks (1860). “Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks: Being a Collection of Sentences, Illustrations, and Quaint Sayings, from the Works of that Renowned Puritan, Thomas Brooks”, p.195

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• Tis not, to cry God mercy, or to sit
  And droop, or to confess that thou hast fail'd:
  'Tis to bewail the sins thou didst commit:
  And not commit those sins thou hast bewail' d.
  He that bewails and not forsakes them too;
  Confesses rather what he means to do.

  Francis Quarles

  Mean, Cry, Failing

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• A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Men, Church On Sunday

  Billy Sunday, William Thomas Ellis (1917). “Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ”

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• Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness.

  Plato

  Weakness, Disease, Deformity

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• My god
  how gentle you are with me
  in spite of my great ignorance
  and how merciful You are with me
  in spite of my ugly deeds

  Ibn Ata Allah

  Forgiveness, God, Religious

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• Imagination is a God-given gift; but if it is fed dirt by the eye, it will be dirty. All sin, not least sexual sin, begins with the imagination. Therefore what feeds the imagination is of maximum importance in the pursuit of kingdom righteousness.

  D. A. Carson

  Dirty, Eye, Sins Not

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• The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear the means of grace the way they do not fear sin. And he does so, not by light but by obscurity, not by realities but by shadows; not by clarity and substance, but by dreams and the creatures of psychosis. And men are so poor in intellect that a few cold chills down their spine will be enough to keep them from ever finding out the truth about anything.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Dream, Mean

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