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• This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Hate, Grief, Bereavement

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• The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's sorrow over sin, but for God's wrath on sin.

  Peter Forsyth

  Wrath, Blood, Sorrow

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• I testify that no one of us is less treasured or cherished of God than another. I testify that He loves each of us—insecurities, anxieties, self-image, and all. He doesn’t measure our talents or our looks; He doesn’t measure our professions or our possessions. He cheers on every runner, calling out that the race is against sin, not against each other.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Cheer, Race, Self

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• Keep God's covenant in your trials; hold you by His blessed word, and sin not; flee anger, wrath, grudging, envying, fretting; forgive a hundred pence to your fellow-servant, because your Lord hath forgiven you ten thousand talents: for, I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Blessed, Wrath, Forgiving

  Samuel Rutherford (1824). “Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition”, p.363

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• Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.

  Frederick Buechner

  Sadness, Unforgivable Sin, Forgiving

  FaceBook post by Frederick Buechner from Jun 30, 2016

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• Alone thou goest forth, O Lord, in sacrifice to die; is this thy sorrow naught to us who pass unheeding by? Our sins, not thine, thou bearest, Lord; make us thy sorrow feel, till through our pity and our shame love answers love's appeal. This is earth's darkest hour, but thou dost light and life restore; then let all praise be given thee who livest evermore. Grant us with thee to suffer pain that, as we share this hour, thy cross may bring us to thy joy and resurrection power.

  Peter Abelard

  Life, Pain, Sacrifice

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• Dying is not a sin. Not living is.

  Jack Lemmon

  Death, Dying, Sin

  "Fictional character: Jake Tremont". "Dad", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.

  George Sand

  Love, Lying, Believe

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• Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification.

  John Owen

  Spiritual, Lying, Hatred

  John Owen, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “Mortification of Sin”, Lulu.com

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• It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house of the harlot, but to fly from all appearance of evil (Prov. 5:8, I Thess. 5:22). The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance; he that will be so bold as to attempt to dance upon the brink of the pit, may find by woeful experience that it is a righteous thing with God that he should fall into the pit.

  Thomas Brooks

  Distance, Fall, Evil

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• To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'

  Francis Bacon

  Christian, Anger, Wrath

  Francis Bacon, Richard Whately (1867). “Lord Bacon's Essays: With a Sketch of His Life and Character, Reviews of His Philosophical Writings, Critical Estimates of His Essays, Analysis, Notes, and Queries for Students, and Select Portions of the ʻAnnotationsʼ of Archbishop Whately”, p.296

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• Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Mind, Sin, Christ

  William Sloane Coffin (2004). “Credo”, p.8, Westminster John Knox Press

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• He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.

  Seneca the Younger

  Sin, Sinner

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• That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Knowledge, Eye, Dark

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8238, Delphi Classics

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• God's mercy is a holy mercy, which knows how to pardon sin, not to protect it; it is a sanctuary for the penitent, not for the presumptuous.

  Edward Reynolds

  Sanctuary, Mercy, Holy

  Edward Reynolds (1838). “Israel's prayer in time of trouble: with God's gracious answer; an explication of the fourteenth chapter of Hosea, in seven sermons, preached upon days of solemn humiliation”, p.15

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• Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

  Moses

  Faces, May, Your Face

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• Jesus died for our sins, not our sexuality.

  Troy Perry

  Jesus, Sexuality, Died

  "Who's Who in Contemporary Gay & Lesbian History: From World War II to the Present Day". Book edited by Robert Aldrich and Gary Wotherspoon, 2001.

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• You would think that everyone would leap at the chance to get rid of sin. Not so. They want relief not a cure.

  Henry R Brandt

  Life, Thinking, Relief

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• The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.

  Livy

  Mind, Body, Blame

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• Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth.

  Saint Augustine

  Men, Sight, Earth

  Saint Augustine, Bishop of Hippo, Saint Augustine of Hippo (2006). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine”, p.10, 1st World Publishing

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