Quotes about Sin

The evangelist cannot bring conviction of sin, righteousness, or judgment; that is the Spirit's work. They cannot convert anyone; that is the Spirit's work.

What stirs God most is not physical suffering but sin. All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die.

Sin is the great clogger, and the blood of Christ is the great cleanser.

There is one thing God's love cannot do. It cannot forgive the unrepentant sinner.

We are not going to build a Utopia on Earth. Why? Because of human nature. Sin keeps us from building a paradise on Earth. But we are to work for social justice—that is our command in Scripture—we're to do all we can so both we and others can live a peaceable and free life, and a life of human dignity. Only Christ can change hearts, but that does not mean that we neglect social and political relationships.

The Bible says there is a certain pleasure in sin. However, it is short-lived and fatal.

Christ . . . didn't come to treat symptoms. He came to get at the very heart of man's disease.

Compassion is not complete in itself, but must be accompanied by inflexible justice and wrath against sin and a desire for holiness.

There is a difference between sin and sins. Sin is the root; sins are the fruit.

Be assured that there is no sin you have ever committed that the blood of Jesus Christ cannot cleanse.

To a sinner, a righteous person is an oddity and an abnormality. A Christian's goodness is a rebuke to the wicked; his being right-side up is a reflection upon the worldling's inverted position.

Until the Good News of Jesus Christ burst onto the human scene, the word love was understood mostly in terms of seeking one's own advantage. Loving the unlovely was incomprehensible A loving God reaching down to sinful humans was unthinkable.