Quotes about Sin
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.
- Oscar Wilde
There is nothing attractive about the gospel to the natural man; the only man who finds the gospel attractive is the man who is convicted of sin.
- Oswald Chambers
Dead men do not cooperate with grace. Unless regeneration takes place first, there is no possibility of faith.
- RC Sproul
The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.
- CS Lewis
Sin is more than an act or a series of acts; it is a man's make-up.
- AW Pink
Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.
- St. Augustine
There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God.
- Oscar Wilde
Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful.
- Richard Baxter
The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world.
- CS Lewis
Let, then, the word be preached, and the sins of men will be rebuked, lust will be restrained, and some oppositions will be made against sin, though that be not the effect aimed at.
- John Owen
By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].
- St. Augustine
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.
- St. Thomas Aquinas