Quotes about Sin

Strategy 7—Against Your Purity He tries to tempt you toward certain sins, convincing you that you can tolerate them without risking consequence, knowing they'll only wedge distance between you and God (Isa. 59:1—2).

When we are in the grip of lust, the reality of God fades.

Someone has said, "Either God's Word will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from God's Word.

When you have met God's conditions, He casts your sins behind His back into the ocean of His forgetfulness. It was Corrie ten Boom who added, "And when God casts our sins into the ocean, He puts up a sign: No fishing!" If almighty God has forgotten your sins, why should you try to remember them?

Romans 14:23, which says, "Whatever is not from faith is sin".

Paul argues for holy anger when he repeats the advice of Psalm 4:4: "In your anger do not sin" (Ephesians 4:26).

As Jesus dealt with sin's cause rather than effect, so the spiritual leader should adopt the same method in prayer.

If it were merely sin that existed, and not the resulting transience as well, contrition would be appropriate', said Athanasius, and goes on: `But God becomes human and subjects himself to "the law of death" so as to take away death's power over human beings and his creation, and in order to bring immortality to light.'16

So that the best believer, if he knows what he says, and says the truth, is but a sinner at the best.

1.) To repent without despairing; (2.) To believe without being presumptuous; (3.) To rejoice without falling into levity; (4.) To be angry without sinning.

Without the consciousness of sin, the whole of the gospel will seem to be an idle tale. But how can the consciousness of sin be revived? Something no doubt, can be accomplished by the proclamation of the law of God, for the law reveals transgressions. The whole of the law, moreover, should be proclaimed.

At the very root of the modern liberal movement is the loss of the consciousness of sin.