Sinner Quotes - Page 36

• We are all dietetic sinners; only a small percent of what we eat nourishes us; the balance goes to waste and loss of energy.

  William Osler

  Life, Food, Loss

  Sir William Osler (2008). “The Quotable Osler”, p.144, ACP Press

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• The heartbrokenness of the sinner is better than the forcefulness of the obedient

  Abu Madyan

  Wisdom, Islamic, Heart

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• 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

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Struggle

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• It's true he was a sinner. But don't pass so final a judgement. Have pity in your heart and don't forget that he may yet be an Augustine, while you remain just another mediocrity.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Heart, Judgement, Saint

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• Jan'nah and Jahannum will both contain sinners, but Jan'nah will have sinners who repented

  Boonaa Mohammed

  Twitter post from Jun 14, 2014

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• By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live.

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford

  Children, Men, Law

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• How many honest men do you know? Take the sinners away from the saints, you're lucky to end up with Abraham Lincoln.

  Paul Newman

  Men, Saint, Lucky

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• God, Who is by nature good and dispassionate, loves all men equally as His handiwork. But He glorifies the virtuous man because in his will he is united to God. At the same time, in His goodness he is merciful to the sinner and by chastising him in this life brings him back to the path of virtue. Similarly, a man of good and dispassionate judgment also loves all men equally. He loves the virtuous man because of his nature and the probity of his intention; and he loves the sinner, too, because of his nature and because in his compassion he pities him for foolishly stumbling in darkness.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Men, Compassion

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• It's not always that easy to distinguish the good guys from the bad guys. Sinners can surprise you. And the same is true for saints.Why do we try to define people as simply good or simply evil? Because no one wants to admit that compassion and cruelty can live side by side in one heart. And that anyone is capable of anything.

  Mary Alice

  Heart, Compassion, People

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• Every sinner is now on trial once for all. He is now invited by the bleeding Saviour, urged by all the horrors of hell, to enter heaven. But death closes the possibility for ever.

  Asahel Nettleton

  Heaven, Trials, Bleeding

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• Anyone can devise a plan by which good people may go to Heaven. Only God can devise a plan whereby sinners, who are His enemies, can go to Heaven.

  Lewis Sperry Chafer

  People, Heaven, Enemy

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• Grace is the understanding that God is a better savior than you are a sinner.

  Christopher Love

  Grace, Understanding, Savior

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• O sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Mary in all you necessities. Call her to your assistance, for such is the divine Will that she should help in every kind of necessity.

  Saint Basil

  Religious, Divine Will, Helping

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• I looked at Mum and realized -- twang! -- that she was telling an untruth. A big untruth. And I remember thinking in that instant how thrilling and grown-up it must be to say something so completely untrue, as opposed to the little amateur fibs I was already practiced at -- horrid little apprentice sinner that I was --like the ones about you'd already said your prayers or washed under the fingernails. Yes, I was impressed. I too must learn to say these gorgeous untruths. Imaginary kings and queens would be my houseguests when I was older.

  Christopher Buckley

  Queens, Kings, Prayer

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• Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hate, Hatred, Poison

  An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth pt. 4, ch. 9 (1929)

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• Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin.

  Salvador de Madariaga

  Sometimes, Sin, Sermons

  Salvador de Madariaga (1954). “Essays with a Purpose”

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• Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance.

  Brennan Manning

  Distance, Church, Sin

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.22, Multnomah

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• Surveys show that more than 50 percent of people in the U.S. have prayed the sinner's prayer and think they're going to heaven because of it even though there is no detectable difference in their lifestyles from those outside of the church. On this issue- the most important issue on earth- we have to be absolutely clear. We need to preach salvation by repentance before God and faith in the finished work of Christ.

  J. D. Greear

  Prayer, Thinking, Differences

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• God's love is his holiness reaching out to sinners; grace is but the price that his love pays to his holiness; the cross is but its victory over sin and death; and faith is but the way in which we bring our worship to him who is holy.

  David F. Wells

  Love Is, Grace, Victory

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• Just because I had a good game doesn't change who I am,
  my identity is in Christ and not in basketball, I love playing basketball and it's my job but at the same time I recognize that I'm a sinner and that's not gonna change regardless of how well I play on the court

  Jeremy Lin

  Basketball, Jobs, Who I Am

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• What we see at the cross is the white-hot revelation of the character of God, of his love providing the price that holiness requires. The cross was his means of redeeming lost sinners and reconciling them to himself, but it was also a profound disclosure of his mercy. It is, in Paul’s words, an ‘inexpressible gift’ that leads us to wonder and worship, to praise and adore the God who has given himself to us in this way.

  David F. Wells

  Mean, Character, White

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• Saints are sinners who kept on going.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Perseverance, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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• The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, he said, but that's normal, because 'a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.

  Pope Francis

  Fall, Writing, Media

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• Our most merciful Father, seeing us to be oppressed and overwhelmed with the curse of the law . . . sent his only Son into the world and laid upon him all the sins of all men, saying, 'You be Peter that denier, Paul that persecutor, blasphemer and cruel oppressor, David that adulterer, that sinner who ate the apple in Paradise, that thief who hung upon the cross, and briefly, you be the person who has committed the sins of all men. See therefore that you pay and satisfy for them.'

  Martin Luther

  Father, Son, Men

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• To put it bluntly and plainly, if Christ is not my Substitute, I still occupy the place of a condemned sinner. If my sins and my guilt are not transferred to Him, if He did not take them upon Himself, then surely they remain with me. If He did not deal with my sins, I must face their consequences. If my penalty was not borne by Him, it still hangs over me. There is no other possibility.

  Leon Morris

  Guilt, Faces, Sin

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