Sins Not Quotes

• It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.

  Teresa of Avila

  Sin

  St. Teresa of Avila (2002). “Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila”, p.372, A&C Black

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• We are punished by our sins, not for them.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Feel Good, Religion, Sin

  Elbert Hubbard (1908). “Health & Wealth”

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• The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Inspiring, Christian, Sin

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• Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Sin, Ashamed, Repent

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• And all of a sudden, all of my sins came before me. Everything I had ever done wrong that I had forgotten about years ago came into my mind. And I prayed, Lord, forgive me, may the blood of Jesus Christ cleanse me from all of my sins... not because of my good works or because of all the things I have tried to do, but because the Lord had forgiven me.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Blood, Years

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• By the supernatural miracle of God's grace I stand justified, not because I am sorry for my sin, not because I have repented, but because of what Jesus has done.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Sorry, Miracle

  Oswald Chambers (2005). “My Utmost for His Highest”, Discovery House Pub

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• I have 236 movies on my queue and I feel like I should always be watching movies. Like if I wake up in the middle of the night and don't fall directly back to sleep, I'm like, 'I've been up for an hour and a half I could have watched 'Toy Story 3' by now.' In this economy it is a sin not to be watching movies when you have Netflix.

  Gary Gulman

  Fall, Sleep, Night

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• To engage people in culture we must remember that holiness is separation from sin, not separation from sinners.

  Ed Stetzer

  People, Culture, Holiness

  FaceBook post by Ed Stetzer from Mar 11, 2010

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• My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought!
  My sin, not in part but the whole,
  Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,
  Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!

  Horatio Spafford

  Soul, Bears, Bliss

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• We are not to look upon our sins as insignificant trifles. On the other hand, we are not to regard them as so terrible that we must despair. Learn to believe that Christ was given, not for picayune and imaginary transgressions, but for mountainous sins; not for one or two, but for all; not for sins that can be discarded, but for sins that are stubbornly ingrained.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Hands, Two

  Martin Luther (2007). “Commentary on Galatians”, p.10, Lulu.com

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• It's bad enough for me to make choices that hurt my own relationship with God. How much more serious is it to be the cause of someone else deciding to sin? Not only must I choose the pathway of holiness for God's sake and for my own sake; I must also do it for the sake of others.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Hurt, Choices, Pathways

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss (2008). “Brokenness, Surrender, Holiness: A Revive Our Hearts Trilogy”, p.300, Moody Publishers

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• My friends, ask gladness from God. Be glad as children, as birds in the sky. And let man's sin not disturb you in your efforts, do not feat that it will dampen your endeavor and keep it from being fulfilled, do not say, Sin is strong, impiety is strong, the bad environment is strong, and we are lonely and powerless, the bad environment will dampen us and keep our good endeavor from being fulfilled. Flee from such despondency, my children! There is only one salvation for you: take yourself up, and make yourself responsible for the sins of men.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Lonely, Strong, Children

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• Christian liberty is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Liberty, Sin

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• Be born anywhere, little embryo novelist, but do not be born under the shadow of a great creed, not under the burden of original sin, not under the doom of Salvation.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Shadow, Novelists, Littles

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• Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive;
  Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive.
  For in best understandings sin began,
  Angels sinn'd first, then devils, and then man.
  Only perchance beasts sin not ; wretched we
  Are beasts in all but white integrity.

  John Donne

  Integrity, Angel, Men

  John Donne (1896). “Poems of John Donne”

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• Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Atheism, Nine, Reason

  Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen (2014). “Remade for Happiness: Achieving Life's Purpose through Spiritual Transformation”, p.24, Ignatius Press

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• Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.

  Voltaire

  Genius, Sin, Verses

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• What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Sin, Terrible

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• The first duty of a Christian, of a disciple and follower of Jesus Christ, is to deny himself. To deny oneself means to give up one's bad habits, to root out of the heart all that ties us to the world; not to cherish bad desires and thoughts; to quench and suppress bad thoughts; to avoid occasions of sin; not to do or desire anything from self-love but to do everything out of love for God. To deny oneself means, according to the Apostle Paul, to be dead to sin and the world, but alive to God.

  Innocent of Alaska

  Christian, Jesus, Giving Up

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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, Imagination

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• We...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.

  Scott Hahn

  Evil, Want, Good Enough

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• He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

  John Ruskin

  Anger, Would Be, Angry

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• It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

  Jose Marti

  Sin, Capable

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Forsaken, Sin

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• All right, kids. We’re going to a party where they don’t like us very much. Everyone know what they’re doing? (Sin) Not a clue, but I think certain death and dismemberment is in my forecast, followed by a light rain of guys and flayed skin. (Kish)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Party, Rain, Kids

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