Quotes about Sin
What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.
- Alphonsus Liguori
Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.
- JC Ryle
Christ will be master of the heart, and sin must be mortified. If your life is unholy, then your heart is unchanged, and you are an unsaved person. The Savior will sanctify His people, renew them, give them a hatred of sin, and a love of holiness.
- Charles Spurgeon
If there is sin against life, it consists¦ in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
- Albert Camus
Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds some promise of happiness. That promise enslaves us until we believe that God is more desired than life itself.
- John Piper
If I can trust the word of a friend, why do I question the word of the God of the universe? Go figure. Sin is truly bizarre." [Running Scared, p. 111]
- Edward Welch
It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.
- St. John Chrysostom
No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
- John Bunyan
Forgiveness of sin strikes the root of all pain.
- TB Joshua
Sin scorches us most after it comes under the scrutinizing light of God's forgiveness and not before
- Karl Barth
The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory
- John Calvin
How can we understand forgiveness if we haven't recognized the depth of our sin?
- John Henry Newman