Quotes about Sin

The safest road to hell is the gradual one—the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. C. S. Lewis

The essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting himself for man." —John Stott

So Heaven is not our default destination. No one goes there automatically. Unless our sin problem is resolved, the only place we will go is our true default destination . . . Hell.

Redemption precedes morality, and not the other way around.

His first step is to make temptation appear as a natural desire. It is something unequivocally physical and human.

The Christian faith, simply stated, reminds us that our fundamental problem is not moral; it is spiritual.

It is not just that we are immoral, but that a moral life alone cannot bridge what separates us from God.

Pleasure that profanes is pleasure that destroys.

As Paul said in Romans 7:16 and 18, "I do what I do not want to do… For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out" (NIV).

Whatever weakens your reasoning, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes away your relish for spiritual things; in short, if anything increases the authority and power of the flesh over the Spirit, then that to you becomes sin, however good it is in itself.

Someone has said that our sin scorches us most after we have received forgiveness, and not before. Once you realize how much you've been forgiven, you see how great that forgiveness really is.

What will you do when the Law of God comes in terror; when the trumpet of the archangel shall tear you from your grave; when the eyes of God shall burn their way into your guilty soul; when the great books shall be opened and all your shame and sin shall be published? Can you stand against an angry Law in that day? A