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• Every ransomed man owes his salvation to the fact that during his days of sinning, God kept the door of mercy open.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Doors, Facts

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• Sincere biblical repentance is as much a work of grace as not sinning in the first place. To err is human, to make progress is divine.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Biblical, Grace, Progress

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• The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Doe, Sin, Enjoy

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• The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Guilt, Shame, Incitement

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• Reverend Ted Haggard's followers still think he's not gay. I'm not kidding. In their world, there are no gay people. There are just straight people who are sinning. They don't want to do it, but the Devil makes them! He targets people like Reverend Ted. That's how it happened. The Devil got hold of Reverend Ted, and Ted said, 'Get thee behind me, Satan! And put it in, gently'.

  Bill Maher

  Gay, Thinking, People

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• The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional. Anxiety is not a sin; it's an emotion. So don't be anxious about feeling anxious. Anxiety can, however, lead to sinful behavior. When we numb our fears with six-packs or food binges, when we spew anger like Krakatau, when we peddle our fears to anyone who will buy them, we're sinning.

  Max Lucado

  Anxiety, Feelings, Emotion

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The gospel frees us from demanding our own way, because nothing we desire to obtain is worth sinning against such love and kindness.

  Elyse Fitzpatrick

  Kindness, Desire, Way

  Elyse M. Fitzpatrick “Because He Loves Me: How Christ Transforms Our Daily Life”, Crossway

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• The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Men, Secret, Praying

  Leonard Ravenhill (2004). “Why Revival Tarries”, p.26, Bethany House

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• The decay of old aristocratic prejudices against greedy speculation, the undermining of orthodox Christian faith (which forbids avarice)... the debauching of agriculture to a gross money-getting concern: these particular aspects of a vast and voracious concentration upon profits are so many illustrations of our sinning confusion of values.

  Russell Kirk

  Christian, Illustration, Agriculture

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.140, Regnery Publishing

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• Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law -- for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excuse himself by saying that he doesn't know it. . . . The renewed originality of the sin is this: I have to carry out my unknowing, I shall be sinning originally against life.

  Clarice Lispector

  Ignorance, Self, Law

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• The greatest sin is sinning against love.

  J. Vernon McGee

  Sin, Against Love

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• The reason for not going out and sinning all you like is the same as the reason for not going out and putting your nose in a slicing machine: its dumb, stupid, and no fun. Some individual sins may have pleasure still attached to them because of the residual goodness of the realities they are abusing: adultery can indeed be pleasant and tying one on can amuse. But betrayal, jealousy, love grown cold, and the gray dawn of the morning after are nobody's idea of a good time.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Morning, Fun, Betrayal

  Robert Farrar Capon (2002). “Kingdom, Grace, Judgment: Paradox, Outrage, and Vindication in the Parables of Jesus”, p.253, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• You have to help good people see how they have let their institutions do their sinning for them. All around the world there are those who long to see your human goodness translated into a different, more compassionate way of relating with the rest of this bleeding planet.

  Peter Storey

  Long, People, Different

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• Praying men stop sinning and sinning men stop praying.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Men, Praying, Christianity

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• I don't know where hell is ... another dimension, perhaps, or another plane of reality. As for getting there ... it's a choice between sinning and being tricked by demons It's a plane of evil ... despair ... and magic of the foulest kind.

  Alan Grant

  Kindness, Reality, Evil

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• In this life ain't no happy endings;
  Only pure beginnings followed by years of sinning and fake repentance.

  J. Cole

  Rap, Years, Fake

  Song: Runaway, 2013

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• If God wanted to create life and create humans, it would be slightly odd that he should choose the extraordinarily roundabout way of waiting for 10 billion years before life got started and then waiting for another 4 billion years until you got human beings capable of worshipping and sinning and all the other things religious people are interested in.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Years, People

  Source: inters.org

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• Jesus Himself was criticized. He wasn't a glutton and drunkard, but He was accused of being those things. Why? Because He went to parties where people ate and drank, and some people probably were at those parties who were drunkards and gluttons. But you don't have to be sinning just because you're in in an environment of happiness.

  Randy Alcorn

  Jesus, Party, People

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• As we see the beauty of God and feel His weightiness in our hearts, our hearts begin to desire Him more than we desire sin. Before the Bible says,"Stop sinning", it says,"Behold your God".

  J. D. Greear

  Heart, Desire, Worship

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• When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.

  Timothy Keller

  Pride, Trying, Use

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• In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Guilt, Sin

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• The English judged a person so that they'd be justified in casting her out. The Amish judged a person so that they'd be justified in welcoming her back. Where I'm from, if someone is accused of sinning, it's not so that others can place blame. It's so that the person can make amends and move on.

  Jodi Picoult

  Moving, Casting, Amish

  "Plain Truth". Book by Jodi Picoult, 2007.

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• My aim is to lay bare and proclaim the crying and horrible guilt of the bloody doctrine of persecution as one of the most seditious, destructive, blasphemous, and bloodiest in any or all the nations of the world, notwithstanding the many fine veils, pretenses, and colors of not persecuting Christ Jesus, but heretics; not God's truth or servants, but blasphemers and seducers; not persecuting men for their conscience, but for sinning against their conscience; and like specious reasonings to justify the cruelty of intolerance.

  Roger Williams

  Jesus, Men, Color

  Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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• He's a fascinating gentleman. Old-school. I tried to talk him into attending one of my services, but he said he wasn't finished sinning yet, and he'd let me know when he was.

  Lisa Kleypas

  School, Gentleman, Said

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.275, St. Martin's Press

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• No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.

  Daniel Defoe

  Men, Evil, Design

  Daniel Defoe (2016). “The Complete Adventures of Robinson Crusoe – 3 Books in One Volume (Illustrated): The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe & Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe”, p.568, e-artnow

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