Sin Quotes - Page 12

• The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?

  William Shakespeare

  Measure For Measure, Tempted

  'Measure for Measure' (1604) act 2, sc. 2, l. 162

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• The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

  William Ames

  Starting Over, Corruption, Stains

  William Ames (1968). “The marrow of theology”

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• Every sin provokes its punishment.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Punishment, Provoking

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Pain is the outcome of sin.

  Gautama Buddha

  Pain, Outcomes

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

  Hyman Rickover

  Inspirational, Funny, Twilight

  The New York Times, November 3, 1986.

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• The knowledge of my sin
  Is half-repentance.

  Bayard Taylor

  Half, Repentance

  Bayard Taylor (1873). “Lars: A Pastoral of Norway”, p.93

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• You will always know whether you are delivered from the guilt of sin by answering this question: Am I delivered from the love of sin?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Guilt, Compromise, Knows

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 37”, p.128, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Laws can discover sin, but not remove it

  John Milton

  Law, Remove

  John Milton (1754). “Milton's Paradise Lost; Or, The Fall of Man: With Historical, Philosophical, Critical, & Explanatory Notes”, p.417

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• Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer.... An instrument strung, but preferring to play itself because it thinks it knows the tune better than the Musician

  C. S. Lewis

  Mother, Pride, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• There are no small sins against a great God

  J. I. Packer

  J. I. Packer (2009). “Rediscovering Holiness: Know the Fullness of Life with God”, p.97, Baker Books

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• When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  God, Religious, Leaving

  Eugene H. Peterson (2012). “A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society”, p.53, InterVarsity Press

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• To create a public scandal is what's wicked; to sin in private is not a sin.

  Moliere

  Wicked, Scandal, Privacy

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• It's not a problem that we're sinners; it's a problem that we aren't ashamed of our sin and don't seek forgiveness.

  Pope Francis

  Problem, Ashamed, Sinner

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• All errors are just ordinary, what extraordinary sin can you commit? All the sins have been committed already. You cannot find a new sin - it is very difficult, it is almost impossible to be original about sin. For millions of years people have committed everything that can be committed. To be thrown in hell for your sins. Now this is too much! you can throw a man into hell for five years, ten years, twenty years, fifty years. If a man has lived for seventy years you can throw him there for seventy years.and that is if you only believe in one life. It is good that they believe in one life.

  Rajneesh

  Believe, Men, Errors

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• If you and sin are friends, you and God are not yet reconciled.

  J. C. Ryle

  Ifs

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity”, p.144, Ravenio Books

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• Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.

  D. A. Carson

  Trying, Deeds, Shoulders

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• He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon.

  Saint Augustine

  Christian, Thinking, Pardon

  Saint Augustine of Hippo (2016). “Saint Augustine of Hippo Collection [50 Books]”, p.9900, Aeterna Press

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• The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate Utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no more sins because all the sinners will have been wiped out.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Awful, Lasts

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.14, New Directions Publishing

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• Will you have the stamina and inspiration necessary to dream up bigger, better, more original sins and wilder, wetter, more interesting problems? Do you realize how demanding it will be to turn yourself into a wildly disciplined, radically curious, fiercely tender, ironically sincere, ingeniously loving, aggressively sensitive, blasphemously reverent, lustfully compassionate master of rowdy bliss?

  Rob Brezsny

  Dream, Inspiration, Interesting

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.62, Frog Books

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• Prayer is the surest remedy against the devil and besetting sins.

  J. C. Ryle

  Prayer, Devil, Remedy

  J.C. Ryle (1853). “A call to prayer”, p.28, Рипол Классик

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• How can we love sin, when we remember that because of our sins Jesus died?

  J. C. Ryle

  Jesus, Remember, Died

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• If you knew the true value of yourself, you will never allow yourself to be humiliated by committing sins.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Humiliated, True Value, Ifs

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• As a handful of sand thrown into the ocean, so are the sins of all flesh as compared with the mind of God.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Christian, Ocean, Mind

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

  Ed Stetzer

  Sins Not, People, Culture

  FaceBook post by Ed Stetzer from Mar 11, 2010

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• Sin and the devil will always find helpers in our hearts.

  J. C. Ryle

  Heart, Devil, Helpers

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Mark”, p.206, Editora Dracaena

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