Sinner Quotes - Page 2

• But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sympathy, Spiritual

  Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiographical Writings”, p.338, Penguin

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• The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Distance, Men, Law

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• That the Father and Son would love sinners that much is beyond our comprehension--but it ought to awaken a response of love and gratitude within our hearts that will change our lives forever!

  Dave Hunt

  Gratitude, Father, Heart

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• No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Commitment, Two, Long

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• If you see yourself as a "little sinner" you will inevitably see Jesus as a "little savior".

  Martin Luther

  Jesus, Littles, Savior

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• The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.

  R. C. Sproul

  Men, Fleeing, Benefits

  Twitter post from Mar 12, 2017

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• We're all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.

  Billy Graham

  World

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• I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Sin, Shock, Sophistication

  "Fictional character: Calvero". "Limelight", www.imdb.com. 1952.

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

  John Bunyan

  Ships, Sin, Leaks

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

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• My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, HE is my righteousness. My faith rests not upon what I am or shall be or feel or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me. Hallelujah!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Trust, God, Faith

  C. H. Spurgeon (2006). “Morning by Morning”, p.269, Hendrickson Publishers

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• Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner.

  J. C. Ryle

  Doe, Worship, Christ

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• If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

  H. L. Mencken

  Girl, Memories, Kindness

  Smart Set, Dec. 1921

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• I do not know what might be the most fitting description.... I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff: I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Literary Genre, Speech

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• I'm a sinner just like everybody else and I have my faults and I've been through my dark times in my life to where I wasn't walking the walk and talking the talk, or I may have been talking the talk, but I wasn't walking the walk.

  Josh Turner

  Dark, Talking, May

  "On Track with Country Artist Josh Turner". Interview with Lisa Ryan, www.cbn.com.

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• We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

  Desmond Tutu

  God, Squash, People

  "The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners". Book by Geoff Tibballs, p. 255, 2004.

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• Behold in faith the sinless, spotless Lamb of God as having already borne that weight, as having suffered for those sins, as having died for those transgressions, and accept the precious truth that it was God's eternal love that laid them all on Jesus, and that nothing is left for you to do but to believe in Jesus, that He saves to the uttermost all that come unto God by Him.

  Octavius Winslow

  Love, Faith, God

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• The story goes that a public sinner was excommunicated and forbidden entry to the church. He took his woes to God. 'They won't let me in, Lord, because I am a sinner.' 'What are you complaining about?' said God. 'They won't let Me in either.

  Brennan Manning

  Church, Complaining, Stories

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.22, Multnomah

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• Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world.

  Martin Luther

  Strong, World, Sin

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• The death of Jesus was the opening and the emptying of the full heart of God; it was the outgushing of that ocean of infinite mercy that heaved and panted and longed for an outlet; it was God showing how he could love a poor, guilty sinner.

  Octavius Winslow

  Jesus, Ocean, Heart

  Octavius Winslow (1848). “Personal Declension and Revival of Religion in the Soul”, p.231

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• This life is the only hell believers will ever know. But for those who die in their sins, this is their only heaven.

  Ray Comfort

  Life, God, Faith

  FaceBook post by Ray Comfort from Mar 23, 2013

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• Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Saint, Saints And Sinners, Edited

  Devil's Dictionary (1911) p. 306

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• Lord make me as holy as a pardoned sinner can be.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Lord, Holy

  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.160

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• Jesus understands our weaknesses and sins; and he forgives us if we allow ourselves to be forgiven.

  Pope Francis

  Forgiveness, God, Christian

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• It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner.

  Giovannino Guareschi

  Hate, Sin

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• The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Positive, Trying, Saint

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