SIN QUOTES IX

quotations about sin


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Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.

PHILIP YANCEY
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attributed, Jesus Now: Unveiling the Present-Day Ministry of Christ


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But the trail of the serpent is over them all.

THOMAS MOORE

Lalla Rookh

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The damage a man does to another, he may make amends for by restitution or recompense, but sin cannot be taken away by recompense, for that were to make the liberty to sin a thing vendible. But sins may be pardoned to the repentent either gratis or upon such penalty as God is pleased to accept.

THOMAS HOBBES

Leviathan

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Sin is the failure of a fallible creature; and reversible by repentance.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Niobe

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I ought to have a number of scriptures marked to bring sin to remembrance. I ought to make use of all bodily affliction, domestic trial, frowns of Providence on myself, house, parish, church, or country, as calls from God to confess sin.

ROBERT MURRAY M'CHEYNE

The Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, and Poems of the Rev Robert Murray M'Cheyne


Christian, that sin which first came between you and God is bad, but that is not the last step in the progress of sin. The most guilty part in this quadruple sin is to hide it, deny it, ignore it, refuse to confess it, refuse to repent of it!

JOHN R. RICE

The Ruin of a Christian


To make it evident that Sin is a great evil, we need but reflect a little on the nature and effects of it. If we inquire into the nature of Sin, we shall find that it is founded in the subversion of the dignity, and defacing the beauty of human nature: And that it consists in the darkness of our understanding, the depravity of our affections, and the feebleness and impotence of the will.

WELLINS CALCOTT

Thoughts Moral and Divine


It appears, therefore, that every man lies under a twofold condemnation for his sins: he is sentenced to various temporal sufferings, to be terminated by death; and to eternal misery in another world. And if any one should object to this, on the supposition that his sins do not merit so tremendous a punishment, I would inquire whether human legislators and judges ever think the criminals themselves competent to decide on the equity of their statutes and decisions? and whether we are capable of determining the degree of evil contained in rebellion against the authority of the infinite Creator, and what punishment the glory of his name, and the everlasting advantage of the whole creation, may require him to inflict upon transgressors? In respect of the former part of this sentence, alleviations and respites alone can be expected; but we may hope for the entire abolition of the latter, as we live under a dispensation of mercy, through the great Mediator of the new covenant. Of this salvation we may hereafter enlarge; at present it suffices to say, with the Psalmist, "If thou, Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand? But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared."

THOMAS SCOTT

"On Man's Situation as a Sinner in this Present World", Essays on the Most Important Subjects in Religion


You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it cannot, for down beneath the water it is anchored. So many a soul sways toward heaven, but cannot ascend thither, because it is anchored to some secret sin.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

HYMAN G. RICKOVER

The New York Times, November 3, 1986


The first sin robbed heaven of some of its brightest ornaments, built the great state prison of hell, kindled its first fires, and awakened groans that never end.

J. BEAUMONT

attributed, Day's Collacon


Whosoever obeyeth the devil, casteth himself down: for the devil may suggest, compel he cannot.

FRANCIS QUARLES

Emblems

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The foulest sinner of all is the hypocrite who makes a racket of religion.

ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Stranger in a Strange Land

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See sin in state, majestically drunk;
Proud as a peeress, prouder as a punk.

ALEXANDER POPE

Moral Essays

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Some sins, like asps, always carry their sting with them.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


For men are separated from God only by sins, from which we are in this life cleansed not by our own virtue, but by the divine compassion.

ST. AUGUSTINE

The City of God

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When I sin, I sin real good
When I sin, I sin for sure

MISFITS

"Devil's Whorehouse"


God is the creditor of that punishment which is due upon Sin; and He has the right of abating, as well as the right of exacting.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


He that wrongs any creature, sins against God, the creator.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms