Quotes about Sin
As "pride is the beginning of all sin," (Eccl. x, 15) so humility is the foundation of all virtue. Learn to be really humble and not, as the hypocrite, humble merely in appearance.
— St Bonaventure
Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
— St. John Chrysostom
One cannot use an evil action with reference to a good intention.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Further, nothing, except sin, is contrary to an act of virtue. But war is contrary to peace. Therefore war is always a sin.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
He cutteth off your love to the creature, that ye might learn that God only is the right owner of your love, sorrow, loss, sadness, death or the worst things that are, except sin:
— Samuel Rutherford
There is no goodness in our will now, but what it hath from grace.
— Samuel Rutherford
We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.
— CS Lewis
From the time of Cain until the last believer before Christ's return, we are all fundamentally in the same boat. We suffer the same spiritual afflictions and tendencies.
— Mark Dever
Instead of living in the sunshine of God's forgiveness through Christ, we tend to live under an overcast sky of guilt most of the time.
— Jerry Bridges
If every time the blood is poured out it is poured out for the remission of sins, I ought to receive it always, that my sins may always be forgiven me.
— Ambrose of Milan
Let your tears fall because of sin, but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of man.
— Charles Spurgeon
Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.
— Soren Kierkegaard