Sin Quotes - Page 9

• It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is impossible to receive forgiveness before confessing his trespasses.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Hate, Men, Impossible

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• Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms. Laying down your arms, surrendering, saying you are sorry, realizing that you have been on the wrong track and getting ready to start life over again from the ground floor-that is the only way out of a "hole." This process of surrender-this movement full speed astern-is repentance.

  C. S. Lewis

  Sorry, Men, Track

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• A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Literature, World, This World

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.214

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• Every act of disobedience committed due to passion, its forgiveness is hoped for. Every act of disobedience committed due to arrogance, its forgiveness is not hoped for because the root of Satan’s disobedience was arrogance, whereas the root of Adam’s lapse was passion.

  Sufyan al-Thawri

  Forgiveness, Religious, Islamic

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• What do I mean by sin? Answer: Any human condition or act that robs God of glory by stripping one of His children of their right to divine dignity. ... I can offer still another answer: 'Sin is any act or thought that robs myself or another human being of his or her self-esteem'.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Children, Self Esteem, Mean

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• Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs and ends in iron chains

  Sir Fowell Buxton, 1st Baronet

  Iron, People, Cobwebs

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• Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.

  Wendell Phillips

  Taken, Sleep, Men

  Wendell Phillips (1891). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters: Second series”

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• There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.

  Richard Sibbes

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

  Richard Sibbes (1995). “Light from Heaven”, p.15, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.

  C. S. Lewis

  Guilt, Doe, Facts

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Pride, Hypocrisy

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• The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.

  Brennan Manning

  Temptation, Age, Looks

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.81, Multnomah

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• His grace is cheapened when you think that He has only forgiven you of your sins up to the time you got saved, and after that point, you have to depend on your confession of sins to be forgiven. God's forgiveness is not given in installments.

  Joseph Prince

  Christian, Inspiration, Thinking

  Joseph Prince (2011). “100 Days of Favor”, p.124, Charisma Media

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• Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.

  Eric Hoffer

  Experience, Saint, Literature

  "The Passionate State of Mind".

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• I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.

  Christopher Marlowe

  Atheist, Ignorance, Thinking

  The Jew of Malta prologue (ca. 1592)

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• I have no right, by anything I do or say, to demean a human being in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him; it is what he thinks of himself. To undermine a man's self-respect is a sin.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Respect, Eye, Men

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• I am a man more sinned against than sinning

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Lear

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. [57]

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• Our virtues are made by love, and our sins are caused by the lack of it.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Lack Of Love, Sufi, Virtue

  "Bowl of Saki".

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• Evil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off.

  Samuel Richardson

  Reflection, Yield, Evil

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• It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.

  Hosea Ballou

  Tails, Mouths, Honey

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• Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so many evils into the world, as the popular opinion that the way of the transgressor is pleasant and easy.

  Hosea Ballou

  Mistake, Men, Evil

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• Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.

  Isaac Barrow

  Retreat, Ifs

  Isaac Barrow, Thomas Smart Hughes (1831). “Works”, p.243

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• Every man has his devilish minutes.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Men, Minutes, Every Man

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• It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Saint, Employment, World

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.28

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• Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.

  Theodore Parker

  Mother, Ideas, Ugly

  Theodore Parker (1865). “Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man”, p.142

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• God made sin possible just as he made all lying wonders possible, but he never made it a fact, never set anything in his plan to harmonize with it. Therefore it enters the world as a forbidden fact against everything that God has ordained.

  Horace Bushnell

  Lying, World, Facts

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God”, p.346

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