Sin Quotes - Page 18

• The Saviour and the Comforter, two Persons of the Godhead: the One ever saves from sins, and the Other comforts him who is saved. Their very names are taken from their deeds, and are always actually justified. He comforts! The Holy Spirit comforts the believing soul, as a mother comforts her child.

  John of Kronstadt

  Mother, Children, Believe

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• Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Temptation, Invites

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• Unbelief is the mother of vice; it is the parent of sin; and, therefore, I say it is a pestilent evil-a master sin.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Mother, Evil, Parent

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1858). “Gems from Spurgeon; or, Extracts from the note-book of a non-professional reporter”, p.75

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• The first essential for the coming of the Holy Ghost into a heart today is that the heart should be cleansed from sin, for the Holy Spirit does not fill an unclean heart. What God has cleansed, He then fills. Finally, whom God fills, He uses. A holy life is the authentic sign of being filled with the Spirit.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Heart, Essentials, Doe

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• Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night.

  Neil Gaiman

  Heart, Night, Tree

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• Discipleship means adherence to Christ and, because Christ is the object of that adherence, it must take the form of discipleship. An abstract theology, a doctrinal system, a general religious knowledge of the subject of grace or the forgiveness of sins, render discipleship superfluous, and in fact exclude any idea of discipleship whatsoever, and are essentially inimical to the whole conception of following Christ....Christianity without the living Christ is inevitably Christianity without discipleship, and Christianity without discipleship is always Christianity without Christ.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Religious, Mean, Following Christ

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• Each person we meet on a daily basis who does not know Christ is hell-bound. That may make some folks bristle-but it's a fact. When we refuse to warn people that their actions and lifestyles have eternal consequences, we're not doing them any favors. If everybody feels good about his or her sin, why would anyone repent?

  Franklin Graham

  People, Feel Good, May

  Franklin Graham (1998). “Living beyond the limits : a life in sync with God”

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• Earning money is not a sin, and the bottom line is growth.

  Rohit Shetty

  Growth, Earning, Lines

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• The lingo used in the space is so arcane and out of date that investors have no context for the discussions. The failure to establish a clear, effective communication system has been the biggest sin private equity has committed.

  Bob Rice

  Communication, Space, Used

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• I have never yet failed to get a hearing (with a Hindu) if I talk to them about forgiveness of sins and peace and rest in your heart.

  Bakht Singh

  Heart, Hearing, Ifs

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• That is why we fly from the inner void, since God might steal into it. It is not the pursuit of pleasure and the aversion for effort which causes sin, but fear of God. We know that we cannot see him face to face without dying, and we do not want to die.

  Nina Simone

  Effort, Dying, Aversion

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• It is not enough simply to try to resist evil or empty our lives of sin. We must also fill our lives with righteousness

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Evil, Trying, Empty

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• Always remember, my good friends, that there is one sin we must never commit and it is to humiliate another person or to allow another person to be humiliated in our presence without us screaming and shouting and protesting.

  Elie Wiesel

  Good Friend, Remember, Shouting

  "Changing world of commencement speakers" by Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com. June 11, 2008.

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• Following Jesus means taking up one's own cross to accompany him on his path, an uncomfortable path that is not one of success or earthly glory, but which leads to true freedom, the freedom from selfishness and sin.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Mean, Selfishness

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• I am the punishment of God. If you have not committed sins then God wouldn't have sent me.

  Genghis Khan

  Punishment, Committed, Ifs

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• Art thou a type of beauty, or of power, Of sweet enjoyment, or disastrous sin?

  Sir Aubrey de Vere, 2nd Baronet

  Sweet, Art, Type

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• A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart. You can get him out of your study, but you can't get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad!

  Alan Beck

  Dream, Hope, Art

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• Jesus paid for our sins, so let's get our money's worth.

  F. Paul Wilson

  Jesus, Paid

  F. Paul Wilson (2008). “Conspiracies”, p.175, Macmillan

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• The un-happiest of mortals is that man who insists upon reliving the past, over and over in imagination - continually criticizing himself for past mistakes - continually condemning himself for past sins.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Mistake, Past, Men

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• Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Come Up, Interest

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.178, Penguin

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• Behold how all those people are merchants who shun great sins and would like to be good and do good deeds in God's honour, such as fasts, vigils, prayers, and similar good deeds of all kinds. They do all these things so that our Lord may give them something, or so that God may do something dear to them. All these people are merchants.

  Meister Eckhart

  Prayer, People, Giving

  Eckhart (Meister), Matthew Fox (1980). “Breakthrough, Meister Eckhart's creation spirituality, in new translation”, Doubleday Books

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• Sin promises like a God but pays like a Devil

  Ralph Venning

  Promise, Devil, Pay

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• The greatest sin is to be unconscious.

  Carl Jung

  Unconscious

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• We are told that Sin consists in acting contrary to God's commands, but we are also told that God is omnipotent. . . . This leads to frightful results. . . . The British State considers it the duty of an Englishman to kill people who are not English whenever a collection of elderly gentlemen in Westminster tells him to do so. . . . Church and State are placable enemies of both intelligence and virtue.

  Bertrand Russell

  Elderly, People, Gentleman

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• Augustine says that we may, out of our dead sins, make stepping stones to rise to the heights of perfection. What did he mean by that? He meant that the memory of our falls may breed in us such a humility, such a distrust of self, such a constant clinging to Christ as we could never have had without the experience of our own weakness.

  James Stalker

  Memories, Fall, Mean

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