Sinner Quotes - Page 37

• It is amazing that we hesitate to talk about the wrath of God, for fear of making sinners feel fearful. The fear they feel this side of the grave will be nothing compared to the fear they feel when they stand before Almighty God.

  Ray Comfort

  Wrath, Sides, Almighty

  Ray Comfort (2012). “Threefold Gold”, p.260, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• No more soul-destroying doctrine could well be devised than the doctrine that sinners can regenerate themselves, and repent and believe just when they please.

  Charles Hodge

  Believe, Soul, Doctrine

  Charles Hodge (1872). “Systematic Theology”, p.277

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• To the artist He is the one altogether lovely, and to the educator He is the master teacher. To the philosopher He is the wisdom of God, and to the lonely He is a brother; to the sorrowful, a comforter to the bereaved, the resurrection and the life. And to the sinner he is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin from the world.

  John Gerstner

  Christian, Lonely, Teacher

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• Faith is rest, not toil. It is the giving up all the former weary efforts to do or feel something good, in order to induce God to love and pardon; and the calm reception of the truth so long rejected, that God is not waiting for any such inducements, but loves and pardons of His own goodwill, and is showing that goodwill to any sinner who will come to Him on such a footing, casting away his own performances or goodnesses, and relying implicitly upon the free love of Him who so loved the world that He gave His only-begotten Son.

  Horatius Bonar

  Love, Faith, God

  Horatius Bonar (1873). “The everlasting righteousness; or, How shall man be just with God?.”, p.116

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• Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking.

  Aldous Huxley

  Trying, Boat, Sinking

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• There'd be a lot less scandal if people didn't idealize sin and pose as sinners.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  People, Scandal, Morality

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• Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.

  Frederick William Faber

  Forgiveness, Faith, Kindness

  "Spiritual conferences".

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• Too many are not willing to give the Gospel a fair trial. They are too ignorant to speak wisely but not wise enough to speak ignorantly. A man is not a sinner because he is a skeptic; he is a skeptic because he is a sinner.

  Vance Havner

  Wise, Men, Giving

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• Although the sinner does not believe in Hell, he shall nevertheless go there if he has the misfortune to die in mortal sin.

  Anthony Mary Claret

  Believe, Doe, Sin

  St. Anthony Mary Claret “The Autobiography of St. Anthony Mary Claret”, TAN Books

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• The sinner's prayer has sent more people to Hell than all the bars in America.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Prayer, America, People

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• But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Brother, Prayer

  Mark Twain (1960). “The autobiography of Mark Twain: including chapters now published for the first time”

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• Devil does not bring sinners to Hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of their own sins. He thus leads them to eternal perdition. Before we fall into sin, the enemy labours to blind us, that we may not see the evil we do, and the ruin we bring upon ourselves by offending God. After we commit sin, he seeks to make us dumb, that, through shame, we may conceal our guilt in confession.

  Alphonsus Liguori

  Fall, Eye, Offending

  "Sermons of St. Alphonsus Liguori: For All the Sundays of the Year".

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• ...but let it suffice us to know that it became God, who is the supreme Ruler, Governor and Judge of all that sin should be punished with death in the sinner or his surety; and therefore if God would bring many sons to glory, the Captain of their salvation must undergo sufferings and death, to make satisfaction for them.

  John Owen

  Son, Suffering And Death, Judging

  John Owen “Epistle to the Hebrews”, Kregel Publications

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• O Jesus and Mary, let my entire consolation in this world be to love you and to suffer for sinners.

  Bernadette Soubirous

  Jesus, Love You, Suffering

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• I can’t reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner; I can’t state at length what I’ve said curtly; I achieve an altered state that I can’t explain; I have a secret that I cannot share.

  Omar Khayyam

  Secret, Saint, Mystery

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• Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Sin, Christ

  Letter to Melanchthon, 1521, in 'Epistolae' (Jena, 1556) vol. 1, folio 345 verso

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• I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

  Nelson Mandela

  Life, Inspiring, Success

  "Nelson Mandela memorial: Barack Obama's speech in full". www.cnn.com. December 10, 2013.

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• All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.

  Eugene H. Peterson

  Doubters, Performers, Persons

  Eugene H. Peterson (2012). “A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society”, p.90, InterVarsity Press

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• Love the sinner, hate the sin? How about: Love the sinner, hate your own sin! I don't have time to hate your sin. There are too many of you! Hating my sin is a full-time job. How about you hate your sin, I'll hate my sin and let's just love each other!

  Mark Lowry

  Love, Christian, Time

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• The worst sinners, according to Jesus, are not the harlots and publicans, but the religious leaders with their insistence on proper dress and grooming, their careful observance of all the rules, their precious concern for status symbols, their strict legality, their pious patriotism... the haircut becomes the test of virtue in a world where Satan deceives and rules by appearances.

  Hugh Nibley

  Leadership, Religious, Jesus

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• Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.

  John Newton

  Religious, Jesus, Memories

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• If I had my way, I would declare a moratorium on public preaching of 'the plan of salvation' in America for one to two years. Then I would call on everyone who has use of the airways and the pulpits to preach the holiness of God, therighteousness of God and the law of God, until sinners would cry out, 'What must we do to be saved?' Then I would take them off in a corner and whisper the gospel to them. Such drastic action is needed because we have gospel-hardened a generation of sinners by telling them how to be saved before they have any understanding why they need to be saved.

  Paris Reidhead

  God, Christian, America

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• Peace on earth, and mercy mild
  God and sinners reconciled.

  Charles Wesley

  Earth, Christian Christmas, Mercy

  Hymns and Sacred Poems "Hymn for Christmas-Day" (1739). GeorgeWhitefield, in A Collection of Hymns for Social Worship (1753), altered Wesley's first two lines to "Hark! The Herald Angels sing / Glory to the new-born King!"

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• And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth!

  John Bunyan

  Heaven, World, Earth

  John Bunyan (1853). “The Works of John Bunyan: With an Introduction to Each Treatise, Notes, and a Sketch of His Life, Times, and Contemporaries ...”, p.303

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• The chief end for which He lived and died was to provide eternal redemption for mankind.

  J. C. Ryle

  Redemption, Christ, Ends

  "Old Paths: Being Plain Statements on Some of the Weightier Matters of Christianity".

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