Quotes about Sin
Be not afraid. God loves you & wants us to love one another as He loves us. As miserable, weak and sinful as we are, He loves us with an infinitely faithful love.
— Mother Teresa
God's love in John 3:16 is not amazing because the world is so big, but because the world is so bad.
— DA Carson
Though sin may be in the Christian, yet it hath no more dominion over him; he hath an unfeigned respect to all God's commandments, making conscience even of little sins and little duties.
— Joseph Alleine
In every sound convert the judgment is brought to approve of the laws and ways of Christ, and subscribe to them as most righteous and reasonable; the desire of the heart is to know the whole mind of Christ; the free and resolved choice of the heart is determined for the ways of Christ, before all the pleasures of sin, and prosperities of the world; it is the daily care of his life to walk with God.
— Joseph Alleine
There is no remedy, but you must either turn or burn.
— Joseph Alleine
The Lord Jesus Christ would have the whole world to know, that though He pardons sin, He will not protect it.
— Joseph Alleine
A man may as certainly miscarry by his seeming righteousness and supposed graces, as by gross sins; and that is, when a man doth trust in these as his righteousness before God, for the satisfying His justice, appeasing His wrath, procuring His favor, and obtaining his own pardon.
— Joseph Alleine
O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you "little lower than the angels"; sin has made you little better than the devils"
— Joseph Alleine
The unsound convert is willingly ignorant, loves not to come to the light. He is willing to keep such or such a sin, and therefore is loathed to know it to be a sin, and will not let in the light at that window. Now, the gracious heart is willing to know the whole latitude and compass of his Maker's law. He receives with all acceptation the Word which convinceth him of any duty that he knew not, or minded not before, or which discovereth any sin that lay hid before.
— Joseph Alleine
God finds nothing in man to turn His heart, but enough to turn his stomach.
— Joseph Alleine
This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
— Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.
— Joseph Prince