Quotes about Sin

The true notion is that the material universe is a sign or an indication of what God is. We look at the purity of the snowflake and we see something of the goodness of God. The world is full of poetry: it is sin which turns it into prose.

The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.

Hope to sin only in the service of waking up.

These false pretexts and varnished colours failing, rare in thy guilt how foul must thou appear.

Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

Her rash hand in evil hour forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat, sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe that all was lost.

Govern well thy appetite, lest sin surprise thee, and her black attendant, Death.

Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden.

However, let us give ourselves to the study of the word, and to prayer; and may the great Teacher make every scriptural truth food to our souls. I desire to grow in knowledge, but I want nothing which bears that name that has not a direct tendency to make sin more hateful, Jesus more precious to my soul; and at the same time to animate me to a diligent use of every appointed means, and an unreserved regard to every branch of duty.

understood the necessity of religion as a means of escaping hell, but I loved sin and was unwilling to forsake it.

When we are duly apprized of our absolute dependence upon him and of our obligations to him as our Creator, Benefactor, and Lawgiver, sin will appear exceedingly sinful, and will bring a burden upon the conscience, which can only be removed by faith in the Redeemer.