Quotes about Sin
Repentance keeps sin from condemning us because Jesus died and scorned the shame.
- Mark Driscoll
We need to avoid the ditch on the left, where we don't call sin a sin, as well as the ditch on the right, where we are angry culture warriors battling unbelievers instead of evangelizing them.
- Mark Driscoll
Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden.
- Mark Twain
There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
- St. Augustine
If you are in Christ, you are fully and completely forgiven for all your sin-past, present and future.
- Matt Chandler
Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God saved you for Himself; God saved you by Himself; God saved you from Himself.
- Paul Washer
Anxiety is the greatest evil that can befall a soul, except sin. God commands you to pray, but He forbids you to worry.
- Francis de Sales
I've looked on many women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.
- Jimmy Carter
To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
- Marquis de Sade
There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.
- Marquis de Sade
So when the devil throws your sins in your face and declares that you deserve death and hell, tell him this: "I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God, and where He is there I shall be also!
- Martin Luther