Sinning Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Die, v.: To stop sinning suddenly.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Death, Literature, Dies

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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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• I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.

  George Eliot

  Peace, Shadow, Sin

  George Eliot (1889). “Mill on the Floss ; Silas Marner ; The Lifted Veil ; and Brother Jacob”

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• We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.

  Seneca the Younger

  Blame, Bosoms

  "De Ira". Book by Seneca the Younger, III. 26, 45 AD.

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• He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

  John the Apostle

  Jesus, Stones, Not Judging

  "Gospel of John". 8:7,

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• I do sin, but I am not the devil.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Angel, Cute Girl, Devil

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• 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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• I'm sin, but I'm not the devil.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Angel, Cute Girl

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• We cannot tolerate one mistake from others, and yet God tolerates a planet covered with His own creation that live their entire lives sinning and denying Him, and yet continues to feed, clothe and protect them.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Mistake, Creation, Planets

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• Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins, doesn't it? We can't be sinning in so many different ways if we are being quiet before God. Silence nourishes patience, charity, discretion.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Mother, Prayer, Cutting

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• We stink more of the world than we stink of sack cloth and ashes. A lot of contemporary churches today would feel more at home in a movie house rather than in a house of prayer, more afraid of holy living than of sinning, know more about money than magnifying Christ in our bodies. It is so compromised that holiness and living a sin-free life is heresy to the modern church. The modern church is, quite simply, just the world with a Christian T-shirt on!

  Nicky Cruz

  Christian, Prayer, Home

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• Men are willing to admit that they are sinners, but not that they are sinning.

  Ivan Panin

  Men, Willing, Sinner

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• Die: To stop sinning suddenly.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dies

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• Nothing is easier than sinning.

  Martin Luther

  Easier

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”, Concordia Publishing House

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• More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Envy, Sin, Despise

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• Everyone is sinning, so it's no longer rebellious to sin. You're just a conformist if you're drunk; and naked; driving around in a loud motorcycle; smoking cigarrettes; breaking commandments; getting pregnant out of wedlock. Everyone's done that. That's so tired!

  Mark Driscoll

  Tired, Drunk, Smoking

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• The principles of logic and mathematics are true simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies.

  A.J. Ayer

  Self, Principles, Use

  "Language, Truth, and Logic" by A.J. Ayer, (p. 77), 1936.

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• It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so.

  Saint Augustine

  Firsts, Would Be, Flesh

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• Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Atheism, Weapons, Sin

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “The Antichrist”, p.56, Friederich Nietzsche

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• I want a human sermon. I don't care what Melchisedek, or Zerubbabel, or Kerenhappuk did, ages ago; I want to know what I am to do, and I want somebody besides a theological bookworm to tell me; somebody who is sometimes tempted and tried, and is not too dignified to own it; somebody like me, who is always sinning and repenting; somebody who is glad and sorry, and cries and laughs, and eats and drinks, and wants to fight when they are trodden on, and don't!

  Fanny Fern

  Sorry, Fighting, Laughing

  Fanny Fern (2017). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.90, Litres

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• Fears of sinning let in thoughts of sin.

  George Crabbe

  Sin

  George Crabbe, John Crabbe (1834). “The poetical works of the Rev. George Crabbe: in eight volumes”, p.147

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• The Greek word for sinning means to ‘miss the point;’ The point is eternal life which is here and now.

  Alan Watts

  Mean, Missing, Greek

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• Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

  George Sand

  Life Is, Sin, Repentance

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• It seems the more I think about not sinning, the more I sin, but the more I think about just loving Jesus, the less I seem to sin. Falling in love seems to be the key.

  John Wimber

  Falling In Love, Jesus, Thinking

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