Sin Quotes - Page 21

• The difference between rich and poor is not that the rich sin is more than the poor, that the rich find it easier to call sin a virtue.

  Henri Nouwen

  Differences, Rich, Virtue

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• Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity.

  Jose Marti

  Men, Humanity, Together

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• Social sin is the crystallization ... of individuals' sins into permanent structures that keeps sin in being and makes its force to be felt by the majority of people.

  Oscar Romero

  People, Majority, Individual

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• It is a sin to follow your horoscope because only God knows the future and He won't tell us. Also, we can tell horoscopes are false because according to astrology, Christ would have been a Capricorn, and Capricorn people are cold, ambitious and attracted to Scorpio and Virgo, and we know that Christ was warm, loving, and not attracted to anybody.

  Christopher Durang

  Scorpios, Astrology, People

  Christopher Durang (1981). “Sister Mary Ignatius explains it all for you ; The actor's nightmare: two one-act plays”

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• Serve God with integrity, and if you achieve no success, at least no sin will lie upon your conscience.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Integrity, Lying, Achieve

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.984, Discovery House

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• It is a fearful thing to hate whom God hath loved. To look upon another-his weaknesses, his sins, his faults, his defects is to look upon one who is suffering. He is suffering from negative passions, from the same sinful human corruption from which you yourself suffer. This is very important: do not look upon him with judgmental eyes of comparison, noting the sins you assume you'd never commit. Rather, see him as a fellow sufferer, a fellow human being who is in need of the very healing of which you are in need. Help him, love him, pray for him do unto him as you would have him do unto you.

  Tikhon of Zadonsk

  Hate, Eye, Healing

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• My dear pope, I will kiss your feet and acknowledge you as supreme bishop if you will worship my Christ and grant that through His death and resurrection, not through keeping your traditions, we have forgiveness of sins and life eternal.

  Martin Luther

  Kissing, Acknowledge You, Feet

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• Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it.

  Mark Twain

  Taken, Wish, Adam

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.69, Courier Corporation

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• Religion's greatest "sin" lies in displacing human endeavor, thought, time, resources and efforts from this world, our only world, in order to exalt a highly unlikely, unknowable, unseeable, unprovable and unbelievable pretend afterworld. The only afterlife that ought to concern us is leaving our descendants (along with the other animals and life we share our planet with) a secure and pleasant future.

  Annie Laurie Gaylor

  Lying, Animal, Order

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• What a burden to think one is conceived in sin rather than in pleasure; that one is born into evil rather than into joy.

  Alice Walker

  Thinking, Evil, Joy

  Alice Walker (2012). “Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism”, p.23, Ballantine Books

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• The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Doe, Enjoy, Anglo Saxon

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• When you meet opposition to your faith, your first reaction may be anger toward your antagonist. This may divert your attention from the deeper, spiritual dimensions of your conflict. Your adversary may be hopelessly in bondage to sin. Rather than retaliating, you should immediately and earnestly intercede for that person. Your opponent's hostility is your invitation to become involved in God's redemptive work to free him or her from spiritual bondage. Be alert to the spiritual warfare around you.

  Henry Blackaby

  Spiritual, Warfare, Attention

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• Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help.

  William Booth

  Heart, Fire, Humanity

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• We need to pray for our nation like never before, and then put legs to our prayers and preach the gospel to a sin-loving and Hell-bound world. To pray for America and at the same time ignore that command to preach the gospel to every creature, is nothing but empty hypocrisy. It is to honor God with our lips and have cold hearts that are far from Him. May He give us a love that moves us from the pews into the streets, and from our homes into our universities. God save us from the cozy comfort of lukewarm contemporary Christianity.

  Ray Comfort

  Prayer, Moving, Home

  FaceBook post by Ray Comfort from Sep 24, 2013

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• So we are mocked by this world when we speak of God's coming judgment against all sin, and when we plead that sinners come to the Savior to avoid Hell. But we can't give up because our task is irksome, or because we are mocked. Neither can we live self-indulgent lives, because our convictions aren't based on some man-made and fallible calculations. They are based on the immutability of the Word of God.

  Ray Comfort

  Giving Up, Men, Self

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• God's holiness demands that sin be punished - but God's love has provided the way of redemption through Christ.

  Billy Graham

  Redemption, Demand, Holiness

  Billy Graham (2007). “The Journey: Living by Faith in an Uncertain World”, p.22, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Robert Louis Stevenson, one evening, stood transfixed at his nursery window watching the lamplighter in the street. When his nanny asked the boy what he was doing he replied: 'I'm watching the man knocking holes in the darkness.' We live in a universe made dark by sin. Let's knock holes in the darkness.

  Selwyn Hughes

  Dark, Boys, Men

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• The very God whom we have offended has Himself provided the way whereby the offense has been dealt with. His anger, His wrath against sin and the sinner, has been satisfied, appeased and He therefore can now thus reconcile man unto Himself.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Men, Wrath, Way

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• Faith is this extraordinary principle which links man to God; faith is this thing that keeps a man from hell and puts him in heaven; it is the connection between this world and the world to come; faith is this mystic astounding thing that can take a man dead in trespasses and sins and make him live as a new being, a new man in Christ Jesus.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Jesus, Men, Heaven

  D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1995). “Reflections: A Treasury of Daily Readings”, Nelson Bibles

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• The Bible says that in the last days, there will be people in our churches who are not true believers, among other things. Because of watered-down messages and compromise, people will feel comfortable in certain churches because they are never confronted with their sin. I believe my job as a pastor is to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.

  Greg Laurie

  Jobs, Believe, People

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• For the Christian church.... to ignore, euphemize, or otherwise mute the lethal reality of sin is to cut the nerve of the gospel. For the sober truth is that without full disclosure on sin, the gospel of grace becomes impertinent, unnecessary, and finally uninteresting.

  Cornelius Plantinga

  Christian, Cutting, Reality

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• In salvation we are not only saved from sin and damnation; we are saved unto holiness. The goal of redemption is holiness.

  R. C. Sproul

  Goal, Damnation, Redemption

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• Sin and accountability aren't popular messages. Yet being trendy and well liked is not the point. We're here to carry out the work and mission of God, even when doing so is uncomfortable.

  Charles Stanley

  Accountability, Messages, Trendy

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• We must of necessity be servant to someone, either to God or to sin. The man who surrenders to Christ exchanges a cruel slave driver for a kind and gentle master whose yoke is easy and whose burden is light.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Light, Yoke

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• Are we willing to risk being misunderstood and maligned in order that truth might be told and men might be saved? Identifying a malady and explaining its seriousness are always the first steps to finding a cure... God has ordained that men come to conviction of sin, repentance, and saving faith through preaching. Yet how can the [Holy] Spirit use our preaching if we are not willing to expose sin or call men to repentance?

  Paul Washer

  Men, Order, Risk

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