Quotes about Sin
Who can fathom the secrets of the human soul?" I said. "None of us is exempt from sin.
— Margaret Atwood
Now young lady,' he said to me, 'I'm not going to chastize you personally because I can see you are a nice girl and only the innocent means to this abominable end. But you will be so kind as to give these tracts to your employers. Who can tell but that their hearts may yet be softened? The propagation of drink and of drunkenness to excess is an iniquity, a sin against the Lord.
— Margaret Atwood
The beginning of men's rebellion against God was, and is, the lack of a thankful heart.
— Francis Schaeffer
Giving thanks to God for both His temporal and spiritual blessings in our lives is not just a nice thing to do - it is the moral will of God. Failure to give Him the thanks due Him is sin.
— Jerry Bridges
The sin of fallen man is this: Man seeks the benefits of God while at the same time fleeing from God Himself.
— RC Sproul
Sin is a thing of time, but mercy is from everlasting. Transgression is but of yesterday, but mercy was ever of old. Before you and I sought the Lord, the Lord sought us.
— Charles Spurgeon
When the church finds its members falling into gross and scandalous sins, then it is time for the church to awake and cry to God for a Revival of Religion.
— Charles Finney
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.
— CS Lewis
He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder, and shall be treated in the same manner as he who convicts himself of this sin.
— St. Basil
I went around saying for a long time that I am not one of those Christians who is heavily into forgiveness -- that I am one of the other kind. But even though it was funny, and actually true, it started to be too painful to stay this way. They say we are not punished for the sin but by the sin, and I began to feel punished by my unwillingness to forgive.
— Anne Lamott
They say we are punished not for the sin but by the sin, and I began to feel punished by my unwillingness to forgive.
— Anne Lamott
Sin is not just affairs, or porn shops, or drug cartels. It is also the ignorance and brokenness of the world, extreme self-centeredness, hoarding wealth, using others as objects, not caring.
— Anne Lamott