Quotes about Sin

Redemption, this alone delivers from the Guilt and Power of Sin, this alone redeems, renews, and regains the first Life of God in the Soul of Man. Every Thing besides this, is Self, is Fiction, is Propriety, is own Will, and however coloured, is only thy old Man, with all his Deeds. Enter therefore with all thy Heart into this Truth, let thy Eye be always upon it, do every Thing in View of it, try every Thing by the Truth of it, love Nothing but for the Sake of it.

Hence also the Fall of Adam was said to be a Death, that he died the Day of his Sin, though he lived so many hundred Years after it: it was because his Sin broke the Union of his two-fold Life and put an End to the heavenly Part of it, and left only one Life, the Life of this bestial, earthly World in him.

I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.

No poor creature stands in need of divine grace more than I, and none abuse it more than I have done, and still do.

It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.

The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.

God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.

When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.

It is in our forgiveness of other people's sins against us that we reveal the fact that we have been truly forgiven by God.

Holiness is not merely a feeling, state of mind, or good intention. It involves practical separation from sin and real separation unto God.