Sinner Quotes - Page 19

• To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think.

  Malachy McCourt

  Thinking, Saint, Edited

  Source: bigthink.com

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• We have received too much from God to allow ourselves opportunities for unbelief. We have received too many gifts and privileges to allow a grumbling, murmuring heart to disqualify us of our destiny. In contrast, the thankful heart sees the best part of every situation. It sees problems and weaknesses as opportunities, struggles as refining tools, and sinners as saints in progress.

  Francis Frangipane

  Struggle, Heart, Opportunity

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• Whenever anybody called Nelson Mandela a saint, he would say: "If by saint you mean a sinner who is trying to be better, then I'm a saint."

  Kumi Naidoo

  Mean, Trying, Saint

  Source: anniepaul.net

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• I am mindful that we're all sinners.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Political, Political Humor

  President Bush's News Conference on Iraq, www.washingtonpost.com. July 30, 2003.

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• God is undoubtedly ready to pardon whenever the sinner turns. Therefore, he does not will his death, in so far as he wills repentance. But experience shows that this will, for the repentance of those whom he invites to himself, is not such as to make him touch all their hearts. Still, it cannot be said that he acts deceitfully; for though the external word only renders, those who hear it, and do not obey it, inexcusable, it is still truly regarded as an evidence of the grace by which he reconciles men to himself.

  John Calvin

  Heart, Men, Grace

  John Calvin “The Institutes Of The Christian Religion, Books Third and Fourth”, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Surprise, Christ, Lord

  "Venetian Epigrams". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, translated by Jerome Rothenberg, 1790.

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• Never does sin so reign in the Church or State, as when it has gained reputation,or, at least, is no disgrace to the sinner,nor is a matter od offence to we who behold it.

  Richard Baxter

  Church, Doe, Reign

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• Hockey is like a religion in Montreal. You're either a saint or a sinner; there's no in-between.

  Patrick Roy

  Hockey, Saint, Montreal

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• A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetrated in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system, while also safeguarding religious freedom, intellectual freedom and individual freedoms. But there is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you will, the righteous and sinners.

  Pope Francis

  Religious, Names, Evil

  Address to a Joint Meeting of the U.S. Congress, delivered 24 September 2015, Washington, D.C.

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• Christianity has not message for those who do not realize they are sinners.

  C. S. Lewis

  Messages, Realizing, Christianity

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• The faithful will be victorious over the sinners.

  Saddam Hussein

  Faithful

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• With the world in the state it is today, whoever is virtuous must be so to the point of sainthood, and even beyond; whoever is a sinner must be so to the point of bestiality and even beyond. Today the middle road is no more.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Sainthood, World, Today

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• But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there were men of dissolute lives and women of spotted fame, wretches given over to all mean and filthy vice, and suspected even of horrid crimes. It was strange to see that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Mean, Men, People

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (1982). “Tales and Sketches”, p.285, Library of America

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• Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven.

  Athanasius of Alexandria

  Escaping, Heaven, Kingdoms

  Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, Aeterna Press (2016). “Saint Athanasius of Alexandria Collection [6 Books]”, p.350, Aeterna Press

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• In the books I read the sinners are always more interesting than the saints, and in real life good people are dismally dull. I've no desire to be wicked, but I do want to be happy. A short life and a gay one for me and I'm willing to pay for my pleasure if it is necessary.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Good Life, Short Life, Real

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• When sinners are careless and stupid, and sinking into hell unconcerned, it is time the church should bestir themselves. It is as much the duty of the church to awake, as it is for the firemen to awake when a fire breaks out in the night in a great city.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Stupid, Night, Fire

  Charles Grandison Finney (1835). “Lectures on Revivals of Religion”, p.22

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• I understand religion is a walk, it's a journey. And I fully recognize that I'm a sinner, just like you.

  George W. Bush

  Humor, Journey, Political

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• Justification and regeneration are simultaneous. The pardoned sinner becomes a child of God in justification.

  William J. Seymour

  Children, Simultaneous, Child Of God

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• God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously... Do not for a moment imagine that this life is the abiding place of justice; sin must be committed.

  Martin Luther

  Religious, Humor, Justice

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• Who hated sin more than the saints? But they did not hate the sinners at the same time, nor condemn them, nor turn away from them. But they suffered with them, admonished them, comforted them. gave them remedies as sickly members, and did all they could to heal them.

  Dorotheus of Gaza

  Christian, Hate, Saint

  Saint Dorotheus (of Gaza) (1977). “Discourses and Sayings”

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• The pastoral labours of the archbishop of Constantinople provoked and gradually united against him two sorts of enemies; the aspiring clergy, who envied his success, and the obstinate sinners, who were offended by his reproofs. When Chrysostom thundered from the pulpit of St. Sophia against the degeneracy of the Christians, his shafts were spent among the crowd, without wounding or even marking the character of any individual.

  Edward Gibbon

  Christian, Character, Past

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.502

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• It has been said that God's gift is also indescribable because of the grace by which it is given. God, who is rich in mercy, gave the world the gift of His dear Son while we were at enmity with Him. Paul says: 'But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us' (Rom. 5:8). Therefore, in Him we are freely given all things: redemption, forgiveness of sins, righteousness, peace, hope, wisdom and knowledge.

  Paul Sadler

  Love, Son, Grace

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• I am a sinner, and I consider myself very fortunate to suffer something for the name of Jesus Christ.

  Joan Antidea Thouret

  Jesus, Names, Suffering

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• Christ prayed for those that crucified Him: 'Father, count not this sin against them; they know not what they do.' Archdeacon Stephen prayed for those who stoned him so that the Lord would not judge this sin against them. And so we, if we wish to retain grace, must pray for our enemies. If you do not find pity on a sinner who will suffer in flames, then you do not carry the grace of the Holy Spirit, but rather an evil spirit; and while you yet live, you must free yourself from his clutches through repentance.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Father, Flames, Evil

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• "That of the person who sees other human beings as sinners," said the Master.

  Anthony de Mello

  Christianity, Masters, Said

  "One Minute Nonsense". Book by Anthony de Mello, 1992.

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