Explore Quotes on Sin

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.

It was nothing less than a stretch of divine love for Jesus to give himself for our sins. It was gracious for the Infinite to conceive of such a thing; but for him to carry it out was glorious beyond all.

I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.

If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer. I must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me. I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend. I must be holy for His sake. How can I live in sin when He has died to save me from it?

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree. Look up to the cross, and you will kill sin, for the strength of Jesus' love will make you strong to put down your tendencies to sin.

HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.