Sinner Quotes - Page 34

• We are a church of sinners but we must not be afraid of holiness. Do not be afraid to aim for holiness and turn yourselves over to the love of God. Holiness does not mean performing extraordinary things but carrying out daily things in an extraordinary way that is with love, joy and faith.

  Pope Francis

  Mean, Joy, Church

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• We give ourselves to prayer. We preach a Gospel that saves to the uttermost, and witness to its power. We do not argue about worldliness; we witness. We do not discuss philosophy; we preach the Gospel. We do not speculate about the destiny of sinners; we pluck them as brands from the burning. We ask no man's patronage. We beg no man's money. We fear no man's frownLet no man join us who is afraid, and we want none but those who are saved, sanctified and aflame with the fire of the Holy Ghost.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer, Philosophy, Destiny

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• Sinners cannot obey the gospel, any more than the law, without renewal of heart.

  J. I. Packer

  Heart, Law, Renewal

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• God is the treasure, and where the treasure is, there is the heart. By this we may test our love to God. What are our thoughts most upon? Can we say we are ravished with delight when we think on God? Have our thoughts got wings? Are they fled aloft? Do we contemplate Christ and glory? A sinner crowds God out of his thoughts. He never thinks of God, unless with horror, as the prisoner thinks of the judge.

  Dallas Willard

  Heart, Thinking, Wings

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• A saint is a sinner who never gave up.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Saint, Gave Up

  Paramahansa Yogananda (1990). “The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda”, Crystal Clarity Pubs

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• When God accepts a sinner, He is, in fact, only accepting Christ. He looks into the sinner's eyes, and He sees His own dear Son's image there, and He takes him in.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Eye, Son, Looks

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1871). “Sermons of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, of London”, p.109

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• Many do not recognize the fact as they ought, that Satan has got men fast asleep in sin and that it is his great device to keep them so. He does not care what we do if he can do that. We may sing songs about the sweet by and by, preach sermons and say prayers until doomsday, and he will never concern himself about us, if we don't wake anybody up. But if we awake the sleeping sinner he will gnash on us with his teeth. This is our work - to wake people up.

  Catherine Booth

  Song, Sweet, Prayer

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• The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

  Theodor Adorno

  Looks, Pleasure

  Theodor W. Adorno (1978). “Minima Moralia”, p.174, Verso

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• Heaven is populated entirely by forgiven sinners

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Forgiveness, Christian, Religious

  Robert Farrar Capon (1993). “The Mystery of Christ-- and why We Don't Get it”, p.10, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• Lord, I am in this world to show Your mercy to others...For my part I will glorify You by making known how good You are to sinners, that Your mercy is boundless.

  Claude de la Colombiere

  World, Mercy, Lord

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• When God justifies a sinner, everything in God is on the sinner's side. All the attributes of God are on the sinner's side. It isn't that mercy is pleading for the sinner and justice is trying to beat him to death. All of God does all that God does.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Justice, Trying, Doe

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• Nowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn't share our rating system. To him, all sin is equally evil, and all sinners are equally lovable.

  Judah Smith

  Evil, Levels, Sin

  Judah Smith (2013). “Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• "Should I comfort those who do not mourn?" Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners who do not mourn over their crimes!

  John William Fletcher

  Hands, Religion, Comfort

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• God’s grace in saving miserable sinners has been replaced by heretical teaching, such as saying that it is because we are so valuable that Christ came to redeem us. Not all who hold self-esteem views go so far, but many do.

  Jay Adams

  Self Esteem, Teaching, Views

  "Competent to Counsel: An Interview with Jay Adams". Tabletalk Interview, tabletalkmagazine.com. February 2014.

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• You are a sinner married to a sinner...and the happiest marriage is the union of two forgivers.

  Skip Heitzig

  Two, Unions, Married

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• I would sooner bring one sinner to Jesus Christ than unravel all the mysteries of the divine Word, for salvation is the one thing we are to live for.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Mystery, Christ

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• If we would be sanctified, our course is clear and plain—we must begin with Christ. We must go to him as sinners, with no plea but that of utter need, and cast our souls on him by faith, for peace and reconciliation with God.... If we would grow in holiness and become more sanctified, we must continually go on as we began, and be ever making fresh applications to Christ.

  J. C. Ryle

  Soul, Would Be, Needs

  "Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots".

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• Christian growth doesn't happen by first behaving better, but by believing better--believi ng in bigger, deeper, brighter ways what Christ has already secured for sinners.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Christian, Believe, Growth

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• The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and this is due to the volition of honesty regarding his own corruption.

  Criss Jami

  Honesty, Humble, Eye

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.36, Criss Jami

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• Great saints have often been made out of great sinners, but not one was ever made out of a wimp.

  Peter Kreeft

  Saint, Wimps, Made

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• God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.

  J. C. Ryle

  Willing, Saved

  J.C. Ryle (2015). “Bible Commentary - The Gospel of Luke”, p.303, Editora Dracaena

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• There are a lot of Christians who are halfway fellows. They stand in the door, holding on to the Church with one hand while they play with the toys of the world with the other. They are in the doorway and we can't bring sinners in.

  Mordecai Ham

  Christian, Doors, Hands

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• We must trust in the mighty power of God's mercy. We are all sinners, but His grace transforms us and makes us new.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Grace, Mercy, Power Of God

  "Why is the pope resigning now?" By Eric Marrapodi, www.cnn.com. February 11, 2013.

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• Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Pray for us now and at the hour of our death.

  T. S. Eliot

  Care, Praying, Hours

  T. S. Eliot (2014). “Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Doe, Saint, Killing

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 30: Sermons 1757-1815”, p.591, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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