Quotes about Sin
Although the particular inclination of the homosexual person is not a sin, it is more or less strong tendency ordered to an intrinsic moral evil, and thus the inclination itself must be seen as an objective disorder.
— Pope Benedict XVI
Today, society does not talk about hell. It's as if it did not exist, but it does. There is eternal punishment for those who sin and do not repent.
— Pope Benedict XVI
The true source of freedom is found in the person of Jesus of Nazareth. Christians believe it is he who fully discloses the human potential for virtue and goodness, and it is he who liberates us from sin and darkness.
— Pope Benedict XVI
For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the world that requires a public acknowledgement of sin as a condition for membership.
— RC Sproul
What we learn from the story of Adam and Eve is simple. What we can have is never what we want. And when we can have what we wanted we want something else. It's human nature in a single luminous story. Our sin. Our fall. Our problem.
— R. Joseph Hoffmann
The greatest sin in the world is to say 'I love you' without realising that God snd his angels are listening and judging. If you do not feel their presence you are not in love. You have no right to be in love.
— R. Joseph Hoffmann
Dietrich Bonhoeffer made the observation that when lust takes control, "At this moment God . . . loses all reality. . . . Satan does not fill us with hatred of God, but with forgetfulness of God.
— Kent Hughes
Men, if we are not praying in detail for our wives and children, we are sinning.
— Kent Hughes
Because we are more adult than actually mature, we tend to take our sins and baptize them, dressing them up as spiritual maturity.
— RC Sproul Jr.
the greater the sin you forgive them of, the greater the measure of the Spirit that will come to you.
— RT Kendall
Open is the way of Satan; many walk therein.
— Jan Hus
There's a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It's deceptive because when you have pride, you're usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn't sell well.
— Joyce Meyer