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Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior. He who has stood before his God, convicted and condemned, with the rope about his neck, is the man to weep for joy when he is pardoned, to hate the evil which has been forgiven him, and to live to the honor of the Redeemer by whose blood he has been cleansed.

Where persons love little, do little, and give little, we may shrewdly suspect that they have never had much affliction of heart for their sins and that they think they owe but very little to divine grace.

Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.

Sin is no little thing. It girded the Redeemer’s head with thorns, and pierced his heart . . . Look upon all sin as that which crucified the Saviour, and you will see it to be ‘exceeding sinful’.

The good man's past begins to change so that his forgiven sins and remembered sorrows take on the quality of Heaven.

If anyone feels his sins, let him come at once, straight, direct, not merely to church, or to the sacrament, or to repentance, or to prayer, but to Christ Himself.

The person that goes regularly and intelligently to the Lord's Table finds it increasingly hard to yield to sin and conform to the world.

Without a thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.

Prayer is the surest remedy against the devil and besetting sins.

If you and sin are friends, you and God are not yet reconciled.

True repentance begins with KNOWLEDGE of sin. It goes on to work SORROW for sin. It leads to CONFESSION of sin before God. It shows itself before a person by a thorough BREAKING OFF from sin. It results in producing a DEEP HATRED for all sin.

Christ is never fully valued, until sin is _x000D_ clearly seen.

We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God and seek salvation, unless He first called us by His grace. Without a divine call, no one can be saved.

The heart that has really tasted the grace of Christ, will instinctively hate sin.

Sin and Hell are married unless repentance proclaims the divorce.

It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.

A right knowledge of sin lies at the root of all saving Christianity.

Sin forsaken is one of the best evidences of sin forgiven.

At the moment I sin, I desire the sin more than I desire to please God.

I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.

Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.