Best 2296 quotes in «sin quotes» category

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.

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.

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

A sin is anything you do which goes against yourself

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

Avalanches of evil begin with a single pebble of sin.

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.

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.

A vow is a snare for 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.

Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

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.

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

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.

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.

Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin is forgiven.

Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression.

Be sure thy sin will find thee out.

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

Believing that you are unworthy of love and belonging or that who you are authentically is a sin or is wrong, is deadly.

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.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

Be very sure of this,-people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it only too well; they understand that it condemns their own behavior; they understand that it witnesses against their own sins, and summons them to judgment.

Between lovers, betrayal is always the worst sin.

Brethren, the crying sin of the church is her laziness after God.

Birds never sing in caves.

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 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.

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

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