Quotes about Sin

Pastor, Author

Free-will doctrine-what does it? It magnifies man into God. It declares God's purposes a nullity, since they cannot be carried out unless men are willing. It makes God's will a waiting servant to the will of man, and the whole covenant of grace dependent on human action. Denying election on the ground of injustice, it holds God to be a debtor to sinners.

Actions - Dependence - Election - Grace - Human - Injustice - Man - Purpose - Sin - Waiting - Whole - Willing

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Augustine of Hippo

Theologian, Philosopher

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

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Augustine of Hippo

Theologian, Philosopher

Sin is believing the lie that you are self-created, self-dependent and self-sustained.

Belief - Dependence - Lie - Oneself - Sin

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Martin Luther

Theologian, Professor, Monk

Our most merciful Father, seeing us to be oppressed and overwhelmed with the curse of the law . . . sent his only Son into the world and laid upon him all the sins of all men, saying, 'You be Peter that denier, Paul that persecutor, blasphemer and cruel oppressor, David that adulterer, that sinner who ate the apple in Paradise, that thief who hung upon the cross, and briefly, you be the person who has committed the sins of all men. See therefore that you pay and satisfy for them.'

Man - Oppression - Payment - Sin

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Soren Kierkegaard

Philosopher, Theologian, Poet, Social Critic

Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to will to be oneself. Thus sin is intensified weakness or intensified defiance: sin is the intensification of despair. The emphasis is on before God, or with a conception of God; it is the conception of God that makes sin dialectically, ethically, and religiously what lawyers call 'aggravated' despair.

Defiance - Despair - Lawyer - Oneself - Sin - Weakness

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Charles Spurgeon

Pastor, Author

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

Acting - Feelings - Guarding - Living - Mindset - Sin - Teaching - Wrong

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William Shakespeare

Poet, Playwright, Actor

Like one Who having into truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie.

Lie - Making - Memory - Sin

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Charles Spurgeon

Pastor, Author

If God requires of the sinner, dead in sin, that he should take the first step, then he requires just that which renders salvation as impossible under the gospel as it was under the law, since man is as unable to believe as he is to obey.

Belief - Impossible - Law - Man - Salvation - Sin

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Chanakya

Teacher, Philosopher, Royal Adviser

Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions.

Actions - Blindness - Man - Perception - Rich - Sin

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Pope Francis

Head of the Catholic Church, Sovereign of the Vatican City State

There is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you will, the righteous and sinners. The contemporary world, with its open wounds which affect so many of our brothers and sisters, demands that we confront every form of polarization which would divide it into these two camps.

Camping - Demanding - Righteousness - Sin

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Charles Spurgeon

Pastor, Author

There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.

Forgiving - Giving - Heavens - Mercy - Privilege - Sin

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Charles Spurgeon

Pastor, Author

Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward & portion in this life; make much of it, for thou shalt know no other joy

Compromise - Joy - Reward - Sin - World

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William Butler Yeats

Clergyman, Poet, Poet

How could passion run so deep Had I never thought That the crime of being born Blackens all our lot?

Crime - Mankind - Passion - Sin

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Mikhail Bulgakov

Dancer, Writer, Writer

Cowardice is the greatest sin.

Cowardice - Sin

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Charles Spurgeon

Pastor, Author

He who looks sinward has his back to God-he who looks Godward has his back to sin.

Sin

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Henry David Thoreau

Essayist, Poet, Philosopher, Critic, Historian

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

Writer, Writer

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

Pessimism - Sin - Thinking

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Augustine of Hippo

Theologian, Philosopher

Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.

Chance - Fault - Healing - Medicine - Past - Physician - Saints - Sin - Suffering - Trial

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Mahatma Gandhi

Lawyer, Politician, Civil Rights Activist

God has been described by all the scriptures of the world as protector and saviour of the sinner.

Protecting - Sin

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Martin Luther

Theologian, Professor, Monk

Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly.

Belief - Sin

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