Quotes about Sin

Why do you think Adam and Eve were concerned about uncovered genitals, but not bare arms, legs, noses, or ears?

Therefore, we cannot rightly say, "My God is not a God of judgment and anger; my God is a God of love." Such thinking makes it almost impossible to grow in the fear of the Lord. It suggests that sin only saddens God rather than offends him. Both justice and love are expressions of his holiness, and we must know both to learn the fear of the Lord.

Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.

You and I are, by birth, by nature, and by choice, inwardly depraved, which is to say that we are entirely corrupt. That's not to say that we have no good in us; we do. However, anything good in us has been tainted with evil. It touches everything. Without the redeeming power of Christ we cannot halt our own moral slide.

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).