Sin Quotes

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

Sin disabled man to keep God’s law, but it doth not enfranchise or disoblige him that he need not keep it.

When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith.

The Bible does not at all assume to show what would have been the course of things in our race if Adam had not sinned. The Bible has however taught us one other fact about sin, namely, that all sin is transgression of law, and of course it implies intelligence of law, and voluntary action […]

What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!

Sin is a queer thing. It isn’t the breaking of divine commandments. It is the breaking of one’s own integrity.

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

Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world.

God made sense to me, but the figure of Jesus and the centrality of sin and Jesus dying to save me from my sins didn’t work for me. I liked a lot of my sins. I didn’t want to be saved from my sins. I’ll take responsibility for my sins. I don’t want anybody taking […]

Then the Lord let me see why there was none upon the earth that could speak to my condition, namely, that I might give Him all the glory. For all are concluded under sin, and shut up in unbelief, as I had been; that Jesus Christ might have the pre-eminence who enlightens, and gives grace, […]