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Christ's blood is the great sovereign remedy for sin-sick souls.

The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. When a man is gloomy, that may be dyspepsia, but it is not religion. Misery is caused by sin, and by no other cause. What business have you with clouded faces? It is terrible. If you have a clouded face, do not go out that day, shut yourself up in your room. What right have you to carry this disease out into the world?

Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind.

Satan often paints sin with virtue's colors.

I'm pretty, but not beautiful. _x000D_ I sin, but I'm not the devil. _x000D_ I'm good, but I'm not an angel.

Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.

Sin always seems 'good, and pleasant, and desirable,' at the time of commission.

To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion.

This is the mystery of the riches of divine grace for sinners; for by a wonderful exchange our sins are now not ours but Christ's, and Christ's righteousness is not Christ's but ours.

True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness.

It's against God's nature to remember forgiven sins

The only separation the Bible knows is between believers on the one hand and unbelievers on the other. Any other kind of separation, division, disunity is of the devil. It is evil and from sin.

Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness.

The essence of sin is a shift from God centeredness to a self-centeredness. The essence of salvation is a denial of self, not an affirming of self.

Thou mayest rule over sin.

Sin is ground in the notion of what is there that I want.

People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

Free will I have often heard of, but I have never seen it. I have always met with will, and plenty of it, but it has either been led captive by sin or held in the blessed bonds of grace.

There is an important difference between the sorrow for sin that leads to repentance and the sorrow that leads to despair.

Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you make to it.

Science has eradicated smallpox, can immunise against most previously deadly viruses, can kill most previously deadly bacteria. Theology has done nothing but talk of pestilence as the wages of sin.