Quotes about Sin
The root of all sin is the suspicion that God is not good.
- Oswald Chambers
An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.
- AW Pink
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
I find that when I think I am asking God to forgive me I am often in reality. . . asking Him not to forgive me but to excuse me.
- CS Lewis
I am wonderfully content with a God who does not deal with me as my sins deserve.
- Brennan Manning
If we have not seen our sin and sought radical forgiveness from God, we will be unable to forgive and to seek the good of those who have wronged us.
- Timothy Keller
This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.
- Charles Spurgeon
God's wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.
- JI Packer
If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God.
- Catherine Booth
When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
- Abraham Joshua Heschel
To be silent when we are impelled to utter words injurious to God or to our neighbour, is an act of virtue; but, to be silent in confessing our sins, is the ruin of the soul.
- Alphonsus Liguori