Sin Quotes - Page 39

• Avoid sin: ... all your deeds are faithfully recorded.

  Judah the Prince

  Deeds

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• So, because in no other person but Jesus of Nazareth did God first become human (in his birth), then bear our sins (in his death), then conquer death (in his resurrection) and then enter his people (by his Spirit), he is uniquely able to save sinners. Nobody else has his qualifications.

  John Stott

  Jesus, People, Able

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• There's traditionally been two different ways of seeing addiction. Either it's a sin and you're a horrible bad person and you are just choosing to be hedonist or it's a chronic progressive disease. And while I certainly believe addiction is a medical problem that should be dealt with by the health system, the way we've conceptualized addiction as a disease is not actually accurate, and it has unfortunately become stigmatizing and it's also created a lot of hopelessness in a lot of people.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Believe, Two, Medical Problems

  Source: sojo.net

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• [Bill] Clinton and Vernon Jordan were talking about "the kitty," the pussycat every other sentence. Vernon got Monica [Lewinsky] a gig somewhere out of the White House, got her an offer for a gig somewhere. And then after Vernon left with Monica, here came Jesse Jackson to the White House for public prayer sessions so that Bill Clinton could get right with God after this mortal transgression and sin. It was the most puke-y thing.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Prayer, White, Talking

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Perhaps I can also add something about the rural setting of Remember You're a One-Ball! The countryside is a place - in mythological and perhaps in very real terms - of mixed innocence and sin. It is seen by townsfolk as idyllic, lazy, free of urban crime and social problems. But those who grow up in the country can tell stories that often surprise those who grow up in the towns.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Country, Growing Up, Real

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• We speak, indeed, of the wrath of God. We do not, however, assert that it indicates any passion on His part, but that it is something which is assumed in order to discipline by stern means those sinners who have committed many and grievous sins.

  Origen

  Mean, Passion, Wrath

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• That so called "original sin" does not know any racial discrimination.

  Desmond Tutu

  Doe, Discrimination, Knows

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• The way sometimes we preach we make out that God is waiting eagerly to catch us out. It's not that way at all. I mean, it is extraordinary because it almost is as if God in fact wills us also to sin, but that is not true.

  Desmond Tutu

  Mean, Waiting, Way

  Source: values.mountmadonnaschool.org

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• It's Godlike to love man - even in his sin - merely because he's man.

  Dorothy Day

  Men, Godlike

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• What we need is a political and joyous alternative to the behaviorist discourse, the Christian discourse on evil or sin, and the convergence of the two in forms of gender policing that [is] tyrannical and destructive.

  Judith Butler

  Christian, Two, Evil

  Source: transadvocate.com

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• You can't go to church without praying ten or fifteen times for God to have mercy on you. You can't sing "Amazing Grace" without reminding yourself that the reason God's grace is amazing is it saves a wretch like you. This self-denigration stuff - Jesus died for my sins - is nothing but a guilt message. That's the thing we've got to get out from under. That's not Christianity. That's sort of fourth-century Christianity that got turned into doctrines and dogmas that we've never been able to escape.

  John Shelby Spong

  Jesus, Self, Grace

  Source: www.thinkpiecepublishing.com

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• The distinction between feelings or inclinations on the one hand, and behavior on the other hand, is very clear. It's no sin to have inclinations that if yielded to would produce behavior that would be a transgression. The sin is in yielding to temptation. Temptation is not unique. Even the Savior was tempted.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Unique, Hands, Feelings

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• Feelings can be controlled and behavior can be controlled. The line of sin is between the feelings and the behavior. The line of prudence is between the susceptibility and the feelings.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Feelings, Lines, Behavior

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• It really is true the Lord's way is to love the sinner while condemning the sin. That is to say we continue to open our homes and our hearts and our arms to our children, but that need not be with approval of their lifestyle. Neither does it mean we need to be constantly telling them that their lifestyle is inappropriate. An even bigger error is now to become defensive of the child, because that neither helps the child nor helps the parent. That course of action, which experience teaches, is almost certainly to lead both away from the Lord's way.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Children, Home, Heart

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• Homosexual behavior is and will always remain before the Lord an abominable sin. Calling it something else by virtue of some political definition does not change that reality.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Reality, Political, Doe

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• Am I a capitalist? No. Why would I be a capitalist? I have no capital. Most people have no capital. But to punish the individual for the sins of the system makes no sense. We're responsible for changing it, yes. But we can't actually invent another universe, so we have to start where we are.

  Gloria Steinem

  People, Individual, Responsible

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• All evangelists want to do is share a message about the forgiveness of sins and reconciliation with God. But our world is confused by the confidence we have in the gospel, and is threatened by it. Satan, I am sure, causes those things to echo in the world to increase this sort of common confusion.

  Mark Dever

  Confused, Echoes, Our World

  Source: matthiasmedia.com

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• I grew up in a religious family and, like, that was a very big part of my life, and still, very much, is even though I don't affiliate with any specific religion. It's just, for me, you know, the spirituality of being able to own up to your sins, as they're called, and take responsibility for your actions really hit me this time around.

  Brendon Urie

  Religious, Responsibility, Able

  Source: villaparkiliad.com

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• Obviously cheap sentimentality isn't something any good novelist wants to traffic in, but I think it's a problem if you consider it to be the most egregious of all creative sins. I think it's a problem if you consider it the thing to be avoided at all cost. I think it's a problem of you're not willing to risk the consequences of that kind of emotionalism under any circumstances. Then you wind up in the cul-de-sac of irony.

  Steve Erickson

  Thinking, Wind, Creative

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Somebody has been a complete ratbag all their life and they've gotten away with it, and they die happy and rich, we so much want to believe that they're going off to the halls of judgment, that their heart will be weighed against the feather of truth, that it will be heavy with sin and it will be eaten by a crocodile. It's almost essential to our well-being to have a fallback position like that. It may appear as if you've gotten away with it, but you'll pay for it later.

  Margaret Atwood

  Believe, Heart, Essentials

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There is a grand designer behind everything. God's plan for your life, all that happens to you, including your mistakes, your sins, and your hurts.

  Rick Warren

  Hurt, Mistake, God's Plan

  Rick Warren (2012). “The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here For?”, p.177, Zondervan

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• Read the genealogy of Jesus, and you have to see how the four women in that genealogy God used their sins for His glory.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Four, Glory

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper". Interview with John Piper, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• What we can't do in heaven is sin and witness. And obviously God didn't leave us here to sin.

  Rick Warren

  Heaven, Witness

  "Rick Warren Clarifies Doctrine, Purpose Driven Life with John Piper - TRANSCRIPT" by Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. May 28, 2011.

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• God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. So to confess is to breathe in and to ask God to forgive me of my sins. And as we breathe out we breathe out the impure air and breathe in the pure air. I would say the pure air is knowing that God has forgiven us of our sins.

  Vonette Bright

  Air, Knowing, Forgive Me

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Often the Jesus-focused churches are leaning towards a 'social gospel' interpretation of the kingdom, and the 'Paul' churches are talking about being saved from sin and going to heaven. But when we understand both Jesus and Paul in their historical contexts within the first-century Jewish world, the issues become both more complex and ultimately (I believe) more clear.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Believe, Talking

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