Quotes about Sin
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
— Charles Spurgeon
The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature was, the fall of our first parents.
— George Whitefield
I don't just commit sin. Apart from God, I am sinful. My problem is not just what I do; it's who I am without His nature.
— Beth Moore
Sin is any failure to conform to the moral law of God in act, attitude, or nature
— Wayne Grudem
Two sorts of peace are more to be dreaded than all the troubles in the world — peace with sin, and peace in sin.
— Joseph Alleine
Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from Sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?
— Oscar Wilde
Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace.
— Charles Spurgeon
Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off.
— George Eliot
We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.
— Peter Kreeft
We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin…by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin
— John Wesley
The Lord was Baptized, not to be cleansed Himself, but to cleanse the waters, so that those waters, cleansed by the flesh of Christ which knew no sin, might have the power of Baptism.
— Ambrose of Milan