Quotes about Sin

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.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.

Only the Lord Jesus can redeem the soul that is steeped in guilt and shame. This baggage weighs us down until we accept Jesus' gift-the gift that liberates souls from sin's power.

A man who has no part in the grace of God, cannot keep the commandments of God, or prepare himself, either wholly or in part, to receive grace; but he rests of necessity under the power of sin.

We pray not to inform God or instruct Him but to beseech Him closely, to be made intimate with Him, by continuance in supplication; to be humbled; to be reminded of our sins.

The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.

The sinner's prayer has sent more people to Hell than all the bars in America.

If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!