Sin Quotes - Page 32

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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