Quotes about Sin
The Law can only chase a man to Calvary, no further.
— DL Moody
"Are you a devil?" "I am a man," answered Father Brown gravely; "and therefore have all devils in my heart."
— GK Chesterton
A man that is an heretic, after the first and second admonition, reject; knowing that he that is such is subverted, and sinneth, being condemned of himself.
— Irenaeus of Lyons
Men have never been good, they are not good and they never will be good.
— Karl Barth
If men only believe enough in Christ they can commit adultery and murder a thousand times a day without periling their salvation.
— Martin Luther
The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.
— St. Augustine
The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.
— CS Lewis
I do not know how to make a man think seriously about sin and judgment, and must look to the work of the Holy Spirit for any hint of such a working.
— Jim Elliot
A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.
— John Owen
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Unhappily, no man exists who has not in his own person become, to some amount, a stockholder in the sin, and so made himself liable to a share in the expiation.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man indeed is the most noble, by creation, of all the creatures in the visible World; but by sin he has made himself the most ignoble.
— John Bunyan