Quotes about Sin
You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.
— Charles Spurgeon
God cannot forgive a sinner who does not acknowledge his sin.
— Mother Angelica
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Today we have to learn all over again that love for the sinner and love for the person who has been harmed are correctly balanced if I punish the sinner in the form that is possible and appropriate.
— Pope Benedict XVI
By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live.
— Joseph Franklin Rutherford
I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins.
— Alveda King
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
— Oscar Wilde
It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.
— Karl Barth
God may not accept a person to forgive him his sins, without an atonement, else he must give free license to sin both in angels and men, and then sin were no sin, and our God were no God.
— John Wycliffe
There are no unforgivable sins.
— Miroslav Volf
The individual who desires to have his sins forgiven, must seek for it through the blood of Jesus. The individual who desires to get power over sin, must likewise seek it through the blood of Jesus.
— George Muller
Such sins, even if they do not kill all grace in us, do harm, nevertheless; and though they are only venial in themselves, they make us apt, ready, and inclined to lose grace and to fall into mortal sin.
— Johannes Tauler