We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.
The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.
Any concept of grace that makes us feel more comfortable sinning is not biblical grace. God's grace never encourages us to live in sin, on the contrary, it empowers us to say no to sin and yes to truth.
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain.
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction. Better, burn for Christ, than turn from Christ.
I am a man more sinned against than sinning
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.
Within each of us exists the image of God, however disfigured and corrupted by sin it may presently be. God is able to recover this image through grace as we are conformed to Christ. Just as the figure of David lay hidden within the marble, discernible only to the eye of its creator, so the image of God (however tarnished by sin) lies within us, see and known by God Himself. Yet God loves us while we are still sinners. He doesn't have to wait until we stop sinning. Acceptance of His love is a major step along the road that leads to our liberation from the tyranny of sin.
A sinning man stops praying; a praying man stops sinning.
Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.
People do not drift toward Holiness. Apart from grace-driven effort, people do not gravitate toward godliness, prayer, obedience to Scripture, faith, and delight in the Lord. We drift toward compromise and call it tolerance; we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom; we drift toward superstition and call it faith. We cherish the indiscipline of lost self-control and call it relaxation; we slouch toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism; we slide toward godlessness and convince ourselves we have been liberated.
I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.
Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.
Few love to hear the sins they love to act.
I do sin, but I am not the devil.
He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.
We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.
Happiness is attained by three things: being patient when tested, being thankful when receiving a blessing, and being repentant upon sinning.
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