Sinner Quotes - Page 9

• I am sharing my faith with my sons. I pray, meditate and read devotionally. But let me be clear: I am a "person of faith" not because I am a saint, but because I am a sinner.

  Van Jones

  Son, Saint, Praying

  Source: www.nydailynews.com

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• I believe that we're all created in the image of God and we're all fallen sinners. And I think we can recognize that as we look backward in history.

  Russell D. Moore

  Believe, Thinking, Looks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.

  Gloria Swanson

  Gossip, Columnists, Concerned

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• The popular gospel of this day, is the laughing-stock of Hell; it dare neither damn the sinner, nor sanctify the saint.

  Catherine Booth

  Laughing, Saint, Hell

  Catherine Booth (1891). “Popular Christianity, a series of lectures”

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• God is righteous in making the sinner righteous.

  Joseph Prince

  Righteous

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• Therefore, is thy brother a sinner? Then cover his sin and pray for him. Dost thou publish his sins, then truly thou art not a child of your merciful Father; for otherwise thou wouldst be also as he, merciful. It is certainly true that we cannot show as great mercy to our neighbor, as God has to us; but it is the true work of the devil that we do the very opposite of mercy, which is a sure sign that there is not a grain of mercy in us.

  Martin Luther

  Art, Brother, Children

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• Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Taken, People

  C. S. Lewis (2014). “Christian Reflections”, p.12, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path.

  James Joyce

  Death, Blessed, Path

  James Joyce (2013). “The Best of James Joyce”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• No age has been more prone to confuse the sin with the sinner, not by hating the sinner along with the sin but by loving the sin along with the sinner. We often use "compassion" as an equivalent for moral relativism.

  Peter Kreeft

  Hate, Compassion, Age

  "The Pillars of Unbelief - Machiavelli" by Peter Kreeft, www.peterkreeft.com. January/February 1988.

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• If only we could love ourselves enough to dare to approach God, what constructive dreams he would give us! What noble possibilities God wants to reveal to us - possibilities that would offer stimulation plus real security in service. But we feel too unworthy. So one layer of negative behavior is laid upon another until we emerge as rebellious sinners. But our rebellion is a reaction, not our nature. By nature we are fearful, not bad.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Dream, Real, Giving

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• In truth, there is no such thing as a "sinner" for no-one can be sinned against-least of all me.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Neale Donald Walsch (2011). “Conversations with God, Book 3: Embracing the Love of the Universe (Anniv)”, p.97, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• False gods - the gods of human understanding - despise sinners, but the Father of Jesus loves all, no matter what they do. But of course this is almost too incredible for us to accept.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Father, Understanding

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• Our music is honest. We are who we are... messed up, dysfunctional sinners that have been loved in spite of our hate. We don't deny that we live in a evil world and that we have been evil people and we have evil tendencies... but we also have touched righteousness through our faith in Christ.. and we have received salvation, hope, and love... So our songs always acknowledge this truth and in turn we hope they bring faith, hope and love into the midst of the selfish, fearful hatred that makes up so much of the world we live in.

  Lacey Mosley

  Song, Hate, Selfish

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• My faith reminds me that we all are sinners.

  Barack Obama

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• The Inquisition confused sin with sinners and judged both. Modern Americans make the same mistake but judge neither.

  Peter Kreeft

  Confused, Mistake, Judging

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• Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God's mountains.

  John Muir

  Heaven, Mountain, Jordan

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.86, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Taken, Heart, Forgiving

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• He [Jesus Christ] loves to see poor sinners coming to Him, He is pleased to see them lie at His feet pleading His promises; and if you thus come to Christ, He will not send you away without His Spirit; no, but will receive and bless you.

  George Whitefield

  Jesus, Lying, Feet

  George Whitefield (1828). “Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith”, p.261

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• When a majority of my prayers are for others to change, I've gotten off track. Lord, change this sinner's heart.

  Mark Hart

  Prayer, Heart, Track

  Mark Hart (2013). “Tweet Inspiration: Faith in 140 Characters (or Less)”, p.38, Franciscan Media

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• My friends, look to Christ, and not to yourselves. That is what is the matter with a great many sinners; instead of looking to Christ, they are looking at the bite of sin.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Looks, Matter, Sin

  Dwight L. Moody (2015). “What Must I Do To Be Saved?”, p.1, Editora Dracaena

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• Let it be ours to be self-reliant amidst hosts of the vacillating — real in a generation of triflers — true amongst a multitude of shams; when tempted to swerve from principle, sturdy as an oak in its maintenance; when solicited by the enticement of sinners, firm as a rock in our denial.

  William Morley Punshon

  Real, Rocks, Self

  William Morley Punshon (1882). “Lectures”

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• Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at the bundle which, with a certain degree of embarrassment, they keep concealed behind their back; if one succeeds in opening it, the products of that scientificality come to light, attended by their blushes: a dear little Lord God, a nice little immortality, perhaps a certain quantity of spiritualism, and in any event a whole tangled heap of 'wretched poor sinner' and Pharisee arrogance.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophy, Nice, Light

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• Christ had no interest in gathering vast crowds of professed adherents who would melt away as soon as they found out what following Him actually demanded of them. In our own presentation of Christ's gospel, therefore, we need to lay a similar stress on the cost of following Christ and make sinners face it soberly before we urge them to respond to the message of free forgiveness. In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.

  J. I. Packer

  Honesty, Stress, Following Christ

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• The end for which Christ lives, and for which He has left His church in the world, is the salvation of sinners.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Church, World, Christ

  Charles Grandison Finney (1837). “Lectures to Professing Christians”, p.23

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• Now they always accuse me of carrying around a sledge hammer with which to pound the church members. Yes sir, I do pound them, every time I come down, I knock one of the halfway fellows out of the doorway, and every time I knock one out I get a sinner in.

  Mordecai Ham

  Religion, Church, Hammers

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