Quotes about Sin
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
Thy sins and hairs may no man equal call, for as thy sins increase, thy hairs do fall.
— John Donne
O miserable condition of man, which is not imprinted by God, who, as he is immortal himself, had put a coal, a beam of immortality into us, which we might have blown into a flame, but blew it by our first sin; we beggared ourselves by hearkening after falses riches, and infatuated ourselves by hearkening after false knowledge.
— John Donne
The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.
— Oswald Chambers
In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.
— Tullian Tchividjian
The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers.
— Rick Warren
My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.
— Edward Brooke
Christians must share their faith in obedience to the Great Commission, because we are only seeing the fruit of sin this side of death.
— Ray Comfort
It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.
— Charles Spurgeon
He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.
— John Bunyan