Quotes about Sin
Sin is essentially a departure from God.
- Martin Luther
Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God.
- Max Lucado
Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.
- Philip James Bailey
Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it.
- Rob Bell
It's Satan's delight to tell me that once he's got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God. And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me.
- Alan Redpath
While our sin reaches far, God's grace reaches farther. God came after us not to strip away our freedom but to strip away our slavery to self, that we could become truly free.
- Tullian Tchividjian
I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.
- David Brainerd
Sin creates the illusion of freedom. In the end it fools us into seeking freedom from God rather than finding freedom in God.
- Erwin McManus
The essence of sin is a shift from God centeredness to a self-centeredness. The essence of salvation is a denial of self, not an affirming of self.
- Henry Blackaby
All hurricanes are acts of God because God controls the heavens. I believe that New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God and they were recipients of the judgment of God for that.
- John Hagee
The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
- Phillips Brooks
Until we believe that we are as bad as God says we are, we can never believe that He will do for us what He says He will do. Right here is where popular religion breaks down.
- AW Tozer