Quotes about Sin

Whatever we are living through, we are in it together. It is not a contest between us. We are good by one another's goodness; we are sinners by one another's sin. In other words, both love and sin are highly contagious.

salvation is sin turned on its head and used in our favor.

Gossip is not a right but a major obstacle to human love and spiritual wisdom. Paul lists it equally with the much more grievous "hot sins" (Romans 1:29—31), and yet most of us do it rather easily.

The denied sins that are really destroying the world are much more the sins that we often admire and fully accept in our public figures: pride, ambition, greed, gluttony, false witness, legitimated killing, vanity, et cetera. That is hard to deny.

We clergy have gotten ourselves into the job of "sin management" instead of sin transformation. "If you are not perfect, then you are doing something wrong," we have taught people. We have blamed the victim, or have had little pity for victims, while daring to worship a victim image of God. Our mistakes are something to be pitied and healed much more than hated, denied, or perfectly avoided. I do not think you should get rid of

There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.

What a support to our faith is this, that God the Father, the party offended by our sins, is so well pleased with the work of redemption!

All sin, at its root, is failing to give God glory. It is loving anything else more than God.

All sin, at its root, is failing to give God glory. It is loving anything else more than God. Refusing to bring glory to God is prideful rebellion, and it is the sin that caused Satan's fall — and ours, too. In different ways we have all lived for our own glory, not God's. The Bible says, "All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."9

Because we're sinners, we hurt each other, sometimes intentionally and sometimes unintentionally. But

It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness.

Sin is powerful, but not as powerful as the liberating power of grace.