The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.
God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let His beloved children get away with sin because He knows it robs us of blessings, opportunities, and even character refinement.
When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.
Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
There are people who are suffering beyond description. They are innocent people, they didn't bring this upon themselves. They are the victims of the sins of other people. And while it's hard to see, it's important to understand that these people exist.
No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul.
Sin comes from not realizing God's love. Sin comes from thinking ourselves only as sinners, while overcoming sin comes from thinking ourselves as overcomers. We act our our perceived identities.
God is love. Wraith is how His love appears to us when we sin or rebel or run away from Him. The very light that is meant to help us appears to us as our enemy when we seek the darkness.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
Christ took our sins and the sins of the whole world as well as the Father's wrath on his shoulders, and he has drowned them both in himself so that we are thereby reconciled to God and become completely righteous.
It is a mortal sin to discard the elderly.
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I have friends, but I am not the peacemaker.
The glory of God's faithfulness is that no sin of ours has ever made Him unfaithful.
God's love is not wearied by our sins & is relentless in its determination that we be cured at whatever cost to us or Him
I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else
There are no small sins against a great God
It is not enough to want to get rid of one’s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins.
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