Quotes about Sin

Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until it be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death.

Publicans and harlots do sooner come to heaven than Pharisees, because they are sooner convinced of their sin and misery.

Of two duties we must choose the greater, though of two sins we must choose neither (556).

O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.]

As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99).

O brethren! It is easier to chide at sin, than to overcome it.

T]here is no greater strengthener of sin, and destroyer of the soul, than Scripture misapplied (317).

The strongest Christian is unsafe among occasions to sin (519).

It is difficult to talk with God each day and continue to sin.

If we won't be serious about dealing with our sin,we cannot expect to grow in our faith. If you want to move to a new level with God,take an inventory of what God has told you about your sin and consider what you've been doing about it.

Our starting place was always original goodness,10 not original sin. This makes our ending place—and everything in between—possessing an inherent capacity for goodness, truth, and beauty.

It is not that suffering or failure might happen, or that it will only happen to you if you are bad (which is what religious people often think), or that it will happen to the unfortunate, or to a few in other places, or that you can somehow by cleverness or righteousness avoid it. No, it will happen, and to you! Losing, failing, falling, sin, and the suffering that comes from those experiences—all of this is a necessary and even good part of the human journey.