Sin Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Christian, beware of thinking lightly of sin. Take heed in case you fall little by little.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Fall, Thinking

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• You must either give up your sins or give up all hope of heaven.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Giving Up, Giving, Heaven

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• Grace has uprooted us from a barren wilderness of sin and transplanted us by streams of living water.

  Steven J Lawson

  Water, Grace, Wilderness

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• Sin claims to free but in fact it kills.

  Mark Dever

  Facts, Claims

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• Rejoicing is the essence of genuine worship. A sad face (apart from remorse for sin or regret concerning the pain of others) is an affront to a gracious and generous God.

  Max Anders

  Pain, Regret, Essence

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• Theology reminded me that, however diabolical the act, it did not turn the perpetrator into a demon. We had to distinguish between the deed and the perpetrator, between the sinner and the sin, to hate and condemn the sin while being filled with compassion for the sinner.

  Desmond Tutu

  Hate, Compassion, Deeds

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• If you doubt your sins have been forgiven, that in itself is sin.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Doubt, Forgiven, Has Beens

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• Even the slightest sin is an act of cosmic treason.

  R. C. Sproul

  Treason, Cosmic

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• You'll never be a mature Christian until you understand that God remembers his promises and forgets your sins.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Christian, Promise, Remember

  Twitter post from Sep 30, 2015

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• If you are in Christ, you are fully and completely forgiven for all your sin-past, present and future.

  Matt Chandler

  Past, Christ, Forgiven

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• The only thing of my very own which I contribute to my redemption is the sin from which I need to be redeemed.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Needs, Redemption, Redeemed

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• People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

  Charles Spurgeon

  People, Made, Knows

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1896). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit”

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• Until we acknowledge our sin and guilt, we will never come to discover that it can be forgiven.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Guilt, Forgiven, Acknowledge

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• You must be made miserable before you can know true Christian joy. Indeed the real trouble with the miserable Christian is that he has never been truly made miserable because of conviction of sin. He has by-passed the essential preliminary to joy, he has been assuming something that he has no right to assume.

  Martyn Lloyd-Jones

  Christian, Real, Joy

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

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