Quotes about Sin
Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother in her children, for that is a compound of two cardinal virtues - faith and hope.
— Charles Dickens
The Book of Proverbs deals very hard blows against sluggards, and Christian ministers do well frequently to denounce the great sin of idleness, which is the mother of a huge family of sins.
— Charles Spurgeon
I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.
— Teresa of Avila
Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.
— CS Lewis
Is all anger sin? No, but some of it is. Even God Himself has righteous anger against sin, injustice, rebellion and pettiness.
— Joyce Meyer
In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboreth to good purpose.
— Thomas a Kempis
We must guard against allowing anger to drag us into sin.
— Joyce Meyer
Even if we were not sinful by nature, the sin of having private property would suffice to condemn us before God; for that which he gives us freely, we appropriate to ourselves.
— Huldrych Zwingli
The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and to show the nature of sin.
— Martin Luther
This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting of God's image in us.
— Heinrich Bullinger
To will is human, to will the bad is of fallen nature, but to will the good is of Grace.
— John Calvin
One human nature is common to all the descendants of Adam, and it is, for all men, guilty and polluted
— Herman Bavinck