Quotes about Sin
The law condemns the best of us; but grace saves the worst of us.
— Joseph Prince
Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church.
— Pope Francis
Contrary to popular assumptions, the Bible is not a record of the blessed good, but rather the blessed bad. That's not a typo. The Bible is a record of the blessed bad. The Bible is not a witness to the best people making it up to God; it's a witness to God making it down to the worst people.
— Tullian Tchividjian
Sin and forgiveness and falling and getting back up and losing the pearl of great price in the couch cushions but then finding it again, and again, and again? Those are the stumbling steps to becoming Real, the only script that's really worth following in this world or the one that's coming.
— Brennan Manning
What a brutish master sin is, taking the joy from one's life, stealing money and health, giving promise of tomorrow's pleasures, and finally leading one onto the rotten planking that overlies the mouth of the pit.
— Jim Elliot
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
— Pope John Paul II
Because of total depravity, you and I were desperate for God's grace before we were saved. Because of total depravity, you and I remain desperate for God's grace even after we're saved.
— Tullian Tchividjian
The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today.
— Shane Claiborne
But Jesus answered me with these words and said: Sin is necessary, but all will be well, and all will be well, and every kind of thing will be well.
— Shane Claiborne
Perhaps one of the most powerful things the contemporary church could do is to confess our sins to the world, the humbly get on our knees and repent for the terrible things we have done in the name of God.
— Shane Claiborne
Healing from sin is a process we get to participate in. God
— Shane Claiborne