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Always remember, my good friends, that there is one sin we must never commit and it is to humiliate another person or to allow another person to be humiliated in our presence without us screaming and shouting and protesting.

A man met a lad weeping. "What do you weep for?" he asked. "I am weeping for my sins," said the lad. "You must have little to do," said the man. The next day, they met again. Once more the lad was weeping. "Why do you weep now?" asked the man. "I am weeping because I have nothing to eat," said the lad. "I thought it would come to that," said the man.

A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.

A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.

Am I becoming more and more in love with God as a holy God, or with the conception of an amiable Being who says, “Oh well, sin doesn’t matter much”?

And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.

And ultimately, If you sin against an infinitely holy and eternal God, you are infinitely guilty and worthy of eternal punishment.

And when I hear it said that God is good and He will pardon us, and then see that men cease not from evil-doing, oh, how it grieves me! The infinite goodness with which God communicates with us, sinners as we are, should constantly make us love and serve Him better; but we, on the contrary, instead of seeing in his goodness an obligation to please Him, convert it into an excuse for sin which will of a certainty lead in the end to our deeper condemnation.

An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins.

An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.

An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail.

An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins.

A right knowledge of sin lies at the root of all saving Christianity.

A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.

Any one who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin. For, as has been pointed out several times, there is no such thing as a random number - there are only methods to produce random numbers, and a strict arithmetic procedure of course is not such a method.

As a result of grace, we have been saved from sin’s penalty. One day we will be saved from sin’s presence. In the meantime we are being saved from sin’s power.

Art thou a type of beauty, or of power, Of sweet enjoyment, or disastrous sin?

As a Christian should do no injuries to others, so he should forgive the injuries that others do to him. It is to be like God, who is a good-giving God, and a sin-forgiving God.

As a believer is changed, receiving a glorified body, so similarly, the earth is changed into a new earth, unstained by sin.

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

As holy zeal is the fervency of our grace, so sinful zeal is the intention and fervency of sin.

A sin is anything you do which goes against yourself

As sins proceed they ever multiply, and like figures in arithmetic, the last stands for more than all that wert before it.

A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience was yet vigilant and tender.

A vow is a snare for sin

At times we are slaves of sin. Lord, come to free us!

A weak understanding of what the Bible says about sin is tied to a weak understanding of what the Bible says is achieved by the cross.

Avalanches of evil begin with a single pebble of sin.

But as the clerical pretensions are more exacting than all others, being put forward with an assertion that no answer is possible without breach of duty and sin, so are they more galling.

Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.

Because ALWAYS, even in the darkest moments, in moments of sin, in moments of weakness, in moments of failure, I have seen Jesus, and I trusted Him... He has not left me alone.

Because there is no greater evil than ignorance and the destruction of genius. Ignorance has been responsible for more death, more bigotry, and more sin than any other force. It is the destroyer of mankind.

Before God and his people I express my sorrow for the sins and grave crimes of clerical sexual abuse committed against you. And I humbly ask forgiveness.

Before I can preach love, mercy, and grace, I must preach sin, Law, and judgment. Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.

Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.

Be of good cheer, my son. Your sins are forgiven.

Be strong enough to say this to yourself -Sins were mine, and so shall I have to pay for it

Besides the guilt of sin and the power of sin, there is the stain of sin.

Between lovers, betrayal is always the worst sin.

Bitterness about your parents’ brokenness will kill you. Be the grace-filled end of generational sin in your family.

Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.

But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.

But he who never sins can little boast Compared to him who goes and sins no more!

But the present life should never be hated, except insofar as it subjects us to sin, although even that hatred should not properly be applied to life itself.

...but the tale itself is a trickster and doesn't hesitate to lie. It is anachronistic with a vengeance. It emerges always and everywhere, overt or disguised, pureblood or hybrid, and healthy as sin.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin…by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.

Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world.

Behold, he who has repented of his sins, the same is forgiven, and I, the Lord, remember them no more.