Sin Quotes - Page 23

• The soul of man, like the bird in the shell, is still growing or ripening in sin or grace, till at last the shell breaks by death, and the soul flies away to the piece it is prepared for, and where it must abide forever.

  John Flavel

  Men, Bird, Forever

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• Let us not fear the opposition of men; every great movement in the Church from Paul down to modern times has been criticized on the ground that it promoted scensoriousness and intolerance and disputing. Of course the gospel of Christ, in a world of sin and doubt will cause disputing; and if does not cause disputing and arrouse bitter opposition, that is a fairly sure sign that it is not being faithfully proclaimed.

  John Gresham Machen

  Men, Doubt, Church

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• We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.

  Martin Luther

  Firsts, Good Work, Forbidden

  Martin Luther (2015). “A Treatise on Good Works”, p.15, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• We should take heed of pride; it is a sin that turned angels into devils.

  Matthew Henry

  Angel, Pride, Devil

  Matthew Henry, Thomas Scott (1835). “A commentary upon the holy Bible: Romans to revelation”, p.372

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• Do you understand what God has done? He has deposited a Christ seed in you. As it grows you will change. It's not that sin has no more presence in your life, but rather that sin has no more power over your life.

  Max Lucado

  Over You, Done, Christ

  Max Lucado (2007). “Lucado 3-in-1: Traveling Light, Next Door Savior, Come Thirsty”, p.529, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Tomorrow's character is made out of today's thoughts. Temptation may come suddenly, but sin does not.

  Randy Alcorn

  Character, Temptation, Doe

  Randy Alcorn (2009). “The Purity Principle: God's Safeguards for Life's Dangerous Trails”, p.41, Multnomah

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• The heart is naturally hard, and grows harder by custom in sin, especially by long abuse of mercy, neglect of the means of grace, and resisteing the spirit of grace.

  Richard Baxter

  Religious, Heart, Mean

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• Swimming for his life, a man does not see much of the country through which the river winds.

  William E. Gladstone

  Country, Swimming, Men

  Written in the diary, December 31, 1868.

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• Sin is to a nature what blindness is to an eye. The blindness of an evil or defect which is a witness to the fact that the eye was created to see the light and, hence, the very lack of sight is the proof that the eye was meant... to be the one particularly capable of seeing the light. Were it not for this capacity, there would be no reason to think of blindness as a misforture.

  Saint Augustine

  Eye, Thinking, Light

  Saint Augustine (2008). “The City of God, Books XVII–XXII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 24)”, p.417, CUA Press

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• Government never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins.

  Tony Snow

  Fall, Government, People

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• Nations cannot endure in sin.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Endure, Nations

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• My prodigious sin was, and still is, being a non-conformist. Although I am not a Communist I refused to fall in line by hating them.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Hate, Fall, Lines

  "My Autobiography". Book by Charlie Chaplin, September 1964.

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• The only reasonable outcome of a nation's sins is to learn not to repeat them.

  James Cook

  Outcomes, Reasonable, Repeats

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• Jesus Christ never died for our good works. They were not worth dying for. But he gave himself for our sins, according to the Scriptures.

  Martin Luther

  Jesus, Dying, Scripture

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• Aristotle was but a wreck of an Adam, and Athens but the rubbish of an Eden. How completely sin has defaced the divine image in man! That man has lost his righteousness and happiness is clearly evident as we look at the state of the world today!

  Robert South

  Men, Eden, Wrecks

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• Sin may rebel, but it shall never reign in any saint.

  Thomas Brooks

  Rebel, Saint, May

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.404

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• Consider, it is impossible that your idol sins and you can go to heaven together; and that those who will not part with these do not indeed love Christ at the bottom, but only in word and show, which will not do the business.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Idols, Heaven, Together

  Samuel Rutherford (1845). “Religious Letters”, p.138

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• Without His Resurrection the death of Christ would be of no avail, and His grave would be the grave of all our hopes. A gospel of a dead Savior would be a miserable failure and delusion. The Resurrection is the victory of righteousness and life over sin an death.

  Philip Schaff

  Victory, Would Be, Miserable

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• Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.

  Anthony de Mello

  Risk, Refusal, Committed

  Anthony De Mello (2010). “Seek God Everywhere: Reflections on the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius”, p.21, Image

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• There are two cardinal human sins out of which all others derive, deviate, and dissipate: impatience and lassitude (or perhaps nonchalance). On account of impatience they are driven out of paradise; on account of lassitude or nonchalance they do not return. Perhaps, however, only one main sense of sin is given: impatience. On account of impatience they are driven out, on account of impatience they do not turn back.

  Franz Kafka

  Two, Nonchalance, Paradise

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• No doubt but ye are the People - absolute, strong and wise;
  Whatever your hear has desired ye have not withheld from your eyes.
  On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving lies!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Wise, Strong, Lying

  Rudyard Kipling, M.M. Kaye (2002). “Rudyard Kipling: The Complete Verse”, Kyle Cathie Limited

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• When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.

  Paul David Tripp

  Running, Self, Confession

  Twitter post from Jul 03, 2015

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• The nearer a man gets to God, the greater he sees his sin.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Men, Greater

  D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2016). “Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures”, p.47, Zondervan

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• For unbelievers, at the final judgment, there will not be one drop of mercy, only perfect justice-so much sin, so much wrath.

  Steven J Lawson

  Wrath, Perfect, Justice

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• The voice of Christ is so powerful that it awakens the spiritually dead in the grave of sin to hear it and live.

  Steven J Lawson

  Powerful, Voice, Christ

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