Quotes about Sin
I say therefore that he sins against the Holy Spirit who, while so constrained by the power of divine truth that he cannot plead ignorance, yet deliberately resists, and that merely for the sake of resisting.
- John Calvin
Man stands under the devil's power, and indeed willingly
- John Calvin
The fact is that unless we are extricated by the grace of Christ, we remain subject to the violence of a whole mass of innumerable evils.
- John Calvin
Error can never be eradicated from the heart of man until the true knowledge of God has been implanted in it.
- John Calvin
Now, if any one should object, that it is unjust for the innocent to bear the punishment of another's sin, I answer, whatever gifts God had conferred upon us in the person of Adams he had the best right to take away, when Adam wickedly fell.
- John Calvin
when we are angered by the sins of others, we should beware lest a temptation of an opposite kind should take possession of our minds.
- John Calvin
The Lord, however, not only forbids any image of himself to be erected by a statuary, but to be formed by any artist whatever, because every such image is sinful and insulting to his majesty.
- John Calvin
Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.
- John Calvin
A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous...
- John Calvin
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.
- John Calvin
In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.
- John Calvin
Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun,Which was my sin, though it were done before?Wilt thou forgive that sin; through which I run,And do run still: though still I do deplore?When thou hast done, thou hast not done,For, I have more.
- John Donne