Quotes about Sin

Grace allows you to face your sin, to own it and not shift the blame.

Perhaps before you start confessing your sin you should first confess your righteousness.

So, when you are sinned against or when the fallen world breaks your door down, don't lash out or run away. Stand in your weakness and confusion and say, "I am not alone. God is with me, and he is faithful, powerful, and willing." You can be realistic and hopeful at the very same time. Realistic expectations are not about hope without honesty, and they are not about honesty without hope. Realism is found at the intersection of unabashed honesty and uncompromising hope.

There's not a day without sin rearing its ugly head and not a day in which God's abundant mercies are not new.

Since sin means that you are a bigger danger to you than anything else in your life and since it is impossible for you to run from you, there is only one hope for you. It is that someone with power, wisdom, and mercy will invade your life, forgive your sins, and progressively deliver you from the hold that sin has had on you. That mercy comes to you in a person, the Lord Jesus Christ, and his mercy is always fresh, uniquely fashioned for the sin struggles of this new day.

The One who created and controls the world, the One who is the ultimate definition of what is loving, true, and good, and the One who alone has the power to finally defeat sin has chosen, because of his grace, to wrap his arms of faithful love and protection around you, and he will not let you go.

An idolatrous heart will produce idol words, words that serve the idol that grips us.

grace is greater than all of the sin we're grappling with.

Sin holds the physical glories of the here-and-now world in front of you and tells you that they are the only glories worth living for. Sin shrinks your zeal and narrows your vision. Sin makes it hard to see beyond the borders of your own life. Grace enables you to tear down fences of self-focus, self-defensiveness, and self-protection so you can reach out to God and others. In so doing you will not only experience true glory, but you will recapture your true humanity.

If you could defeat sin by separating yourself from its external manifestations, Jesus would never have needed to come.

You can be courageous in admitting your sin precisely because God is richly abundant in his mercy.

Since sin is deeper than bad behavior, trying to do better isn't a solution. Only grace that changes the heart can rescue us.