Long before genetics became a flourishing field, Christians have spoken about sin as an inherited condition.

The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.

If men will not understand the meaning of judgement, they will never come to understand the meaning of grace.

I have no more pleasure in hearing a man attempting wit and failing, than in seeing a man trying to leap over a ditch and tumbling into it

The man who is seriously convinced that he deserves hell is not likely to go there, while the man who believes that he is worthy of heaven will certainly never enter that blessed place.

Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.

History is little more than the story of man's sin, and the daily newspaper a running commentary on it.

Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.

We are not sinners in the hands of an angry God; we are saints who sin in the hands of a loving God.

Evil and sin weave their way into every aspect of God's creation and every dimension of human personhood and life on earth.

To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.

To be a saint is to be an exception; to be a true man is the rule. Err, fail, sin if you must, but be upright. To sin as little as possible is the law for men; to sin not at all is a dream for angels. All earthly things are subject to sin; if is like the force of gravity.