Sin Quotes - Page 24

• You cannot be in Christ and be indifferent to the sin in your life.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Christ, Indifferent

  Twitter post from Mar 25, 2015

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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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• When men talk of a little hell it's because they think they have only a little sin and believe in a little Savior.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Men, Thinking

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon, Volume 38”, p.662, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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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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• Sin is not so sweet in the committing as it is heavy and bitter in the reckoning.

  Richard Sibbes

  Sweet, Bitter, Reckoning

  Richard Sibbes (1837). “The soul's conflict and victory over itself by faith”, p.206

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• Conversion is essential, but it is a beginning, not an end. The believer in Jesus Christ is not simply rescued from the penalty of his sin; he is redeemed to love God and his neighbor so that others might come to know him.

  Max Anders

  Jesus, Essentials, Might

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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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• Most ignorances are vincible, and in the greater number of cases stupidity is what the Buddha pronounced it to be, a sin. For, consciously, or subconsciously, it is with deliberation that we do not know or fail to understand-because incomprehension allows us, with a good conscience, to evade unpleasant obligations and responsibilities, because ignorance is the best excuse for going on doing what one likes, but ought not, to do.

  Aldous Huxley

  Ignorance, Responsibility, Numbers

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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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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• God is not counting our sins against us because He is counting our sins against Christ.

  Alistair Begg

  Christ, Counting

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• We will never know how great God's love is until we first see how great our sin is.

  Steven J Lawson

  Love Is, Firsts, Know How

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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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• Sin rarely seems sin at first beginnings.

  J. C. Ryle

  Firsts, Seems

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Holiness: It's Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”, p.28, Letcetera Publishing

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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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• The sinner can no more raise himself from the deadness of sin than Lazarus, who had been dead four days, until Jesus came.

  George Whitefield

  Jesus, Four, Lazarus

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• The more seriously we understand the radical nature of sin, the more it exercises a restraint upon us.

  R. C. Sproul

  Exercise, Radical, Restraint

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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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• Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life.

  Thomas Brooks

  Heart, Eye, Tongue

  Thomas Brooks (1859). “Smooth stones taken from ancient brooks, by C.H. Spurgeon, a collection of sayings from the works of T. Brooks”, p.2

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