Sin Quotes - Page 33

• When Martin Luther was asked what we contribute to our salvation, he said, "Sin and resistance"

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Resistance, Luther, Salvation

  Twitter post from Apr 04, 2015

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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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• Beloved, can you feel assured that He carried your sin?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Beloved, Feels, Assured

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.378, Discovery House

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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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• At the cross, the worst about us-our sins-was laid upon Christ, and the best about Him-His righteousness-was laid upon us.

  Steven J Lawson

  Christ, Crosses, Righteousness

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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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• If the depths of everyone's sin was made public, we would all be much more gracious to each other.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Depth, Made, Gracious

  Twitter post from Mar 07, 2015

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• The irreligious don't repent at all and the religious only repent of sins. But Christians repent of their wrongfully placed righteousness.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Religious, Righteousness

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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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• There is no halfway or lackadaisical way to fight lust. If you're not fighting your sin, you're befriending your sin.

  Trip Lee

  Fighting, Lust, Befriending

  Trip Lee (2015). “Rise: Get Up and Live in God's Great Story”, p.113, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• God doesn't slack his promises because of our sins or hasten them because of our righteousness. He pays no attention to either.

  Martin Luther

  Promise, Attention, Pay

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• Here's one way I can know that I've forgotten the gospel of grace: when your sin bothers me more than my sin.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Religious, Grace, Way

  Twitter post from Jan 28, 2015

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• Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls.

  Thomas Brooks

  Loss, Soul, Saddest

  Thomas Brooks (1824). “The select works of ... Thomas Brooks”, p.309

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• Because of the Cross, God can be both just towards sin and yet mercifully justifying to sinners.

  Timothy Keller

  Crosses, Sinner

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• Grace does not make sin safe. But grace does make sinners safe.

  Matt Chandler

  Grace, Doe, Safe

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  In the druidical religion of liberalism, not separating your recyclables is a sin, but abortion is just a medical procedure.

  Ann Coulter

  Abortion, Medical, Procedures

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• One of the bitter ironies of the 20th century was that communism, which began as an egalitarian doctrine accusing capitalism of selfishness and calloused sacrifices of others, became in power a system whose selfishness and callousness toward others made the sins of capitalism pale.

  Thomas Sowell

  Sacrifice, Selfishness, Doctrine

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• Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints.

  John Smith

  Saint, Might, Gluttony

  John Smith (2007). “The Journals of Captain John Smith: A Jamestown Biography”, National Geographic Books

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• God is not against us for our sins. God is for us against our sins.

  David Seamands

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• You might declare that global warming and energy insecurity, not to mention urban sprawl and pollution, have intensified the sin of indulging one's motoring desires. And I would not argue with that point. You're right. I am a bad man. But over the long term, if you want to develop a new transportation and energy policy, you'd probably want to err on the side of assuming that people won't change much. And it is human nature to like to be empowered.

  Joel Achenbach

  Men, Long, People

  "The Car of the Future". voices.washingtonpost.com. December 2, 2008.

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• The grace that has freed us from bondage to sin is desperately needed to free us from our bondage to materialism.

  Randy Alcorn

  Grace, Materialism, Bondage

  Randy Alcorn (2011). “Money, Possessions, and Eternity”, p.80, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Every business tries to turn this year's success into next year's greater success. It's hard for me to see why Microsoft is sinful to do this. If it's a sin, then I hope all of Berkshire Hathaway's subsidiaries are sinners. Someone whose salary is paid by U.S.taxpayers is happy to dramatically weaken the one place where we're winning big?!

  Charlie Munger

  Winning, Years, Trying

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• The SEC does way more good than harm - the last thing I would do is get rid of the SEC...if accounting were thoroughly fixed, a lot of other sins would go away. We're paying a huge price for deterioration of accounting.

  Charlie Munger

  Going Away, Doe, Deterioration

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• Trials are sent to some so as to take away past sins, to others so as to eradicate sins now being committed, and to yet others so as to forestall sins which may be committed in the future. These are distinct from the trials that arise in order to test men in the way that Job was tested.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Jobs, Men, Past

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• The Devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the Devil's empty.

  John Vianney

  Book, Writing, Angel

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