Sin Quotes - Page 25

• 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 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Light, Views

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• Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin?

  R. C. Sproul

  Jesus, Hung, Insisting

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• That sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy seat is a sinful sorrow.

  Thomas Brooks

  Soul, Sorrow, Mercy

  Thomas Brooks (1810). “Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Being a Companion for Christians of All Denominations”, p.12

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• We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.

  C. S. Lewis

  Strange, Illusion, Repentance

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no sin so prevalent, so insidious, and so deep as the sin of fearing people more than we fear God.

  Kevin DeYoung

  People, Insidious, Fear God

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• Those trapped in sin will not normally thank you for pointing out the darkness in their lives.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Darkness, Pointing, Trapped

  Twitter post from Mar 31, 2015

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• When we try and use fear or pride to stop from sinning, we are forgetting that we sin because of either fear or pride.

  Timothy Keller

  Pride, Trying, Use

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• Because He freely owned my guilt I may freely own my sin. Guilty as charged, and yet, not guilty at all.

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Guilt, May, Guilty

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• We must show sympathy with sinners, but not with their sins.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Shows, Sinner

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1856). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons”, p.324

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• Because of Jesus the sin we cannot forget God does not remember.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Jesus, Doe, Remember

  FaceBook post by Tullian Tchividjian from May 06, 2015

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• In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  News, Remember, Moments

  Twitter post from Feb 08, 2015

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• Paul sees all kinds of sins in himself and all kinds of accomplishments too, but he refuses to connect them with his identity.

  Timothy Keller

  Accomplishment, Identity, Kind

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• Self-righteousness is the fruit of a low view of God's law and a lite view of your own sin.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Self, Views, Law

  Twitter post from Feb 07, 2015

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• You will never see the preciousness of a Savior, if you do not see the reality of your sin.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Reality, Savior, Ifs

  Twitter post from Jan 27, 2015

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