Quotes about Sin

As our sin is ever before us, so God's promise must be ever before us. As we much feel our sting, so we must look up to Christ, our "brazen serpent" (Num 21:8-9).

Were our love more set upon the preached word, our minds would be more fixed upon it; and surely there is enough to make us love the word preached; for it is the word of life, the inlet to knowledge, the antidote against sin, the quickener of all holy affections.

This sin cleaves to us as a leprosy. This original pollution makes us guilty before the Lord; and even though we would never commit actual sin, it merits hell. The meditation of this would be a means to pull down our pride. -- Nay, even those who have grace have cause to walk humbly be- cause they have more corruption in them than grace: their dark side is broader than their light.

Men begin by sinning against the light of conscience, and proceed gradually to despiting the Spirit of grace.

Affliction only reaches the body, but sin goes further: it poisons the fancy, disorders the affections. Affliction is but corrective; sin is destructive. Affliction can but take away the life; sin takes away the soul.

Our sins are worser than the sins of the devils: the lapsed angels never sinned against Christ's blood. Chris died not for them.The medicine of his merit was never intended to heal them. But we have affronted and disparaged his blood by unbelief.

What a vast difference is there between the first covenant and the second! In the first covenant it was, if you commit sin you die; in the second it is, if you confess sin you shall have mercy.

So dear is sin to a man that he will rather part with a child than with a lust

An idle person is the devil's tennis ball, which he bandies up and down with temptation until at last the ball goes out of play.

This is a sign of a new nature: when a man hates what he once loved! And because he hates sin, therefore he fights against it with the "sword of the Spirit" (Eph 6:17), as a man who hates a serpent seeks the destruction of it.

A sinner crowds God out of his thoughts. He never thinks of God, unless with horror, as the prisoner thinks of the judge.

Until the heart is pure, all our holy things (that is, our religious duties) are polluted. They are but splendid sins!