Quotes about Sin

Racism is not first and foremost a skin problem. It is a sin problem. See, when you believe that racism is a skin problem, you can take three hundred years of slavery, court decisions, marches, and the federal government involvement and still not get it fixed right.

Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.

The mystery of the Christian life is that Christ expects us to flee sin and the devil, but does not expect us to rid ourselves of either on this side of glory. Repentance is a way of life, and so is the pursuit of godliness. I wish every Christian could be reminded of these two things.

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

Every painful consequence of sin is a part of the punishment meted out for sin.

In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!

Our sin is exactly the presumption that we can know God or ourselves through our own capacities.

Our country's got a sin problem, and I believe if these politicians in Washington would recognize the moral failure of so many of their policies that maybe we could fix it.

At the heart of the Protestant faith is the conviction that there is nothing we contribute to our salvation but our sin, no merit we bring but Christ's, and nothing necessary for justification except faith alone.