Sinning Quotes

• 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.

  C. S. Lewis

  Guilt, Doe, Facts

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.105, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

  John Owen

  World, Compromise, Sin

  John Owen (1862). “The Works of John Owen”, p.343

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• All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.

  W. H. Auden

  Addiction, Damnation, Sin

  A Certain World (1970) "Hell"

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• 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.

  Marie de France

  Anger, Wrath, Wish

  Marie de France (2014). “French Medieval Romances from the Lais of Marie de France”, p.218, The Floating Press

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• 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.

  Randy Alcorn

  Biblical, Empowering, Grace

  Randy Alcorn (2009). “The Grace and Truth Paradox: Responding with Christlike Balance”, p.82, Multnomah

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• Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Memorable, Sin

  1603 Escalus. Measure for Measure, act 2, sc.1, l.38.

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• 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.

  Robert Southey

  Mean, Men, Evil

  Robert Southey (1831). “Sir Thomas More: Or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society”, p.221

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• Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

  Francis Atterbury

  School, Affliction, Virtue

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• One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.

  John Bunyan

  Ships, Sin, Leaks

  'The Pilgrim's Progress' (1684) pt. 2

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• 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.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Ocean, Evil, Suffering

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1889). “The Salt-cellars: Being a Collection of Proverbs, Together with Homely Notes Thereon”

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• I am a man more sinned against than sinning

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Sin

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 3, sc. 2, l. [57]

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• After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Literature, Firsts, Sin

  Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.8, Hayes Barton Press

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• Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.

  Martin Luther

  Strange, Sin, Saved

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• 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.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Lying, Eye, Acceptance

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• A sinning man stops praying; a praying man stops sinning.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Men, Praying

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• Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

  Seneca the Younger

  War, Eye, Men

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• 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.

  D. A. Carson

  Prayer, Thinking, Self

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• I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.

  George Eliot

  Peace, Shadow, Sin

  George Eliot (1889). “Mill on the Floss ; Silas Marner ; The Lifted Veil ; and Brother Jacob”

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• Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Country, Sin, Said

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• Few love to hear the sins they love to act.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Hypocrite, Hypocrisy

  'Pericles, Prince Of Tyre' (1606-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 92

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• I do sin, but I am not the devil.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Angel, Cute Girl, Devil

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• He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

  John the Apostle

  Jesus, Stones, Not Judging

  "Gospel of John". 8:7,

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• He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

  Thomas Fuller

  Fall, Men, Grieving

  Thomas Fuller (1831). “The Holy and Profane States: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings”, p.156

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• We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.

  Seneca the Younger

  Blame, Bosoms

  "De Ira". Book by Seneca the Younger, III. 26, 45 AD.

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• Happiness is attained by three things: being patient when tested, being thankful when receiving a blessing, and being repentant upon sinning.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Blessing, Being Thankful, Three Things

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