Quotes about Sin
The quickest way to the heart is through a wound.... Concealed sin keeps us from seeing the light of Christ.... Sin is like spiritual leprosy. It deadens your spiritual senses so that you rip your soul to shreds and don't even feel it.
— John Piper
I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God." Desiring God, 12.
— John Piper
Conversion, then, involves repentance (turning from sin and unbelief) and faith (trusting in Christ alone for salvation).9 They are really two sides of the same coin. One side is tails—turn tail on the fruits of unbelief. The other side is heads—head straight for Jesus and trust His promises. You can't have the one without the other any more than you can face two ways at once or serve two masters.
— John Piper
Everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed." Concealed sin keeps us from seeing the light of Christ.
— John Piper
Jesus's solution to our love affair with sin is that we be mastered by joy in a new reality, namely, God.
— John Piper
Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.
— John Piper
People give way to sexual sin because they don't have fullness of joy and gladness in Jesus.
— John Piper
If I were to put my finger on one devastating sin today, it would not be the so-called women's movement, but the lact of spiritual leaderhsip by men at home and in the church
— John Piper
Esteeming God less than anything is the essence of evil.
— John Piper
The only sin that we can defeat is a forgiven sin.
— John Piper
In dying he satisfied the claims of sin; and in living he satisfies the claims of God.
— John Piper
Sin's outcome is eternal misery. What infinite ugliness then must be the ugliness of sin. This is the constant subject of preaching, for this is what we must ever overcome. It is more serious than Satan and sickness and insanity. None of those can damn a soul. Only sin can damn. This we must defeat in preaching, or all is in vain. Flippancy in and around our preaching communicates to people that sin is not as serious as the Bible says it is.
— John Piper