Sinner Quotes - Page 31

• Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all.

  William Shakespeare

  Judging, Hypocrisy

  'Henry VI, Part 2' (1592) act 3, sc. 3, l. 31

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• I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.

  Saint Patrick

  Eye, Faithful, Despised

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• Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'

  Marilyn Manson

  Christian, Art, Growing Up

  "Marilyn Manson on his new album 'Born Villain'". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. May 1, 2012.

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• We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

  Joel Osteen

  Easter, Christ

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• God's grace justifies sinners, but it never justifies sin!

  Joyce Meyer

  Christian, Grace, Sin

  Twitter post from Apr 7, 2012

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• You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you.

  Martin Luther

  Believe, Feelings, Lord

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• Oh! Could you but see the beauty of a soul in the grace of God, you would be so much enamored of it that you would do nothing else but ask souls of God; and, on the contrary, could a soul in mortal sin be placed before your eyes, you would do nothing but weep, and you would hate sin more than the devil himself, and always pray for the conversion of sinners.

  Mary Magdalene

  Hate, Eye, Grace

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• God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  God, Religious, Doe

  "Journals". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, Harper, p. 59 (July 7, 1838), 1959.

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• There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.

  Peter Ustinov

  Jesus, Machines, Television

  "The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations" edited by Robert Andrews, (p. 742), 1993.

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• He is very imprudent, a dog; he never makes it his business to inquire whether you are in the right or the wrong, never asks whether you are rich or poor, silly or wise, sinner or saint. You are his pal. That is enough for him.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Friendship, Wise, Dog

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.69, Jerome K. Jerome

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• Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Self, Rooms, Needs

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• No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

  Matthew Henry

  Umpires, Holiness, Attributes

  Thomas Scott, Matthew Henry (1847). “Psalm LXIV-Malachi”

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• Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon.

  Pope Francis

  Lord, Astute, Circumstances

  "A Big Heart Open to God: An interview with Pope Francis". Interview with Antonio Spadaro, S.J., www.americamagazine.org. September 30, 2013.

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• It was not nails that held Jesus to that wretched cross; it was his unqualified resolution, out of love for his Father, to do his Father's will-and it was his love for sinners like me.

  D. A. Carson

  Jesus, Father, Unqualified

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• God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.

  Archibald Alexander

  Earth, Transactions, Conversion

  Archibald Alexander (1857). “Practical Truths”

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• The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show compassion; but that He cannot and will not have a relationship with pretenders in the Spirit.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Compassion, Forgiving

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.47, Multnomah

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• The kingdom is not an exclusive, well-trimmed suburb with snobbish rules about who can live there. No, it is for a larger, homelier, less self-conscious caste of people who understand they are sinners because they have experienced the yaw and pitch of moral struggle.

  Brennan Manning

  Struggle, Self, People

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• Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free men and women are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilities and uphold the disciplines which will maintain a free society.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Responsibility, Men, Discipline

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• The sinners to whom Jesus directed His messianic ministry were not those who skipped morning devotions or Sunday church. His ministry was to those whom society considered real sinners. They had done nothing to merit salvation. Yet they opened themselves to the gift that was offered them. On the other hand, the self-righteous placed their trust in the works of the Law and closed their hearts to the message of grace.

  Brennan Manning

  Morning, Jesus, Real

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.38, Multnomah

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• When you are depressed, bear in mind the Lord's command to Peter to forgive a sinner seventy times seven (cf. Mt. 18:22). And you may be sure that He Who gave this command to another will Himself do very much more.

  John Climacus

  Christian, Cfs, Forgiving

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.250, Paulist Press

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• At Sunday worship, as in every dimension of our existence, many of us pretend to believe we are sinners. Consequently, all we can do is pretend we have been forgiven. As a result, our whole spiritual life is pseudo-repentance and pseudo-bliss.

  Brennan Manning

  Spiritual, Jesus, Believe

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.85, Multnomah

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• Not only the guilt, but the love of sin, and its dominion, are taken away, subdued by grace, and cordially renounced by the believing pardoned sinner.

  John Newton

  Believe, Taken, Grace

  John Newton (1798). “Messiah: Fifty Expository Discourses, on the Series of Scriptural Passages, which Form the Subject of the Celebrated Oratorio of Handel : Preached in the Years 1784 and 1785, in the Parish Church of St Mary Woolnoth, Lombard-Street”, p.180

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• If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Vices, Would Be

  Francis Bacon (1866). “The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon: Including His Essays, Apophthegms, Wisdom of the Ancients, New Atlantis, and Life of Henry the Seventh”, p.191

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• A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Justified, Christ, Righteousness

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• The power of God unto salvation is not our passion for God, but the passion He has exhibited toward us sinners by sending his own Son to redeem us.

  Michael Horton

  Passion, Son, Salvation

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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