Quotes about Sin
I hope I know my own unworthiness, and that I hate and despise myself and all my fellow-creatures as every practicable Christian should.
— Charles Dickens
Mindful, then, of what we had read together, I thought of the two men who went up into the Temple to pray, and I knew there were no better words that I could say beside his bed, than 'O Lord, be merciful to him, a sinner!
— Charles Dickens
Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, and work round to the same.
— Charles Dickens
lies is lies. Howsever they come, they didn't ought to come, and they come from the father of lies, work round to the same.
— Charles Dickens
So runs the genealogy of many another sin: idleness is usually the grandfather of the crime, whatever the father might be.
— Charles Spurgeon
Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us.
— Greg Laurie
God took on our humanity, our sin, and the just punishment that sin deserves, dying a God-forsaken, hellish death on the cross, because only this could rescue us from our self-chosen destruction. God expresses unsurpassable love for us and ascribes unsurpassable worth to us by sacrificing the One who has unsurpassable value on our behalf!
— Gregory Boyd
Hell is not just a place of torment; additionally it's a place of separation from God.
— James Garlow
Hell wasn't made for people; God doesn't want anyone to go there. But he is utter goodness—absolute holiness—and evil cannot be in his presence.
— James Garlow
Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people."
— James Garlow
In language that's hard for us to hear, Jesus says those a lineated from God will go " into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
— James Garlow
Mary met Jesus as her son at the manger, but she did not meet Him as her Savior until she met Him at the cross. Mary needed to lose Jesus as a son in order to find Him as a Savior. Mary needed to take her place with the other disciples, standing as a sinner at the foot of the cross. She needed Jesus to die for her own sins.
— James Montgomery Boice