Quotes about Sin
God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.
- Charles Spurgeon
God's decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so fast, that neither sin, death, nor hell, can break it asunder.
- Thomas Watson
If you have a small view of your sin, God's grace will be small to you.
- Timothy Keller
Christians should not be optimists; we know too much about sin. We should also not be pessimists, for we know the living God.
- Timothy Keller
If one's conscience is willing to confess whatever sins have been committed, including the sin of unbelief, it will be sorrowful in a godly way, earnestly desiring the mercy of God.
- Watchman Nee
Hell is the backdrop that reveals the profound and unbelievable grace of the cross. It brings to light the enormity of our sin and therefore portrays the undeserved favor of God in full color.
- Francis Chan
Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.
- Frederick Buechner
When God saves us through Christ, He not only saves us from the penalty of sin, but also from its dominion.
- Jerry Bridges
As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin.
- Jerry Bridges
the whole Pelagian poison of free-will ... a clear exaltation of the old idol free-will into the throne of God ... That the decaying estate of Christianity have invented.
- John Owen
God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.
- John Stott
Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all God's commandments, making conscience even of little sins and little duties.
- Joseph Alleine