Sin has a way of shrinking God down and puffing ourselves up.
If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God.
All our good works and good intentions can't solve our sin problem.
The lowest and vilest alleys of London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.
The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.
I'm getting very old and my bones ache. My sins are deserting me, and if I could only have my time over again I'd take care to commit more of them.
God saves. Specifically he will save his people from their sins.
I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy.
The Lord, before His Incarnation, let mankind experience all the bitterness of sin, all their powerlessness to eradicate it; and when all longed for a Deliverer, then He appeared, the most wise, all-powerful Physician and Helper. When men hungered and thirsted after righteousness, as it grew weaker, then the everlasting righteousness came.
The more seriously we understand the radical nature of sin, the more it exercises a restraint upon us.
It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.
Suffering is better than sinning. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in an ocean of affliction. Better, burn for Christ, than turn from Christ.
. . . you have to stop loving and pursuing Christ in order to sin.
Well, I take great comfort in the words of the apostle Paul who said, ‘What I will to do, that I do not practice. But what I hate, that I do. ’ And he said, ‘It is no longer I who do it, but the sin that dwells within me. But who,’ he asks, ‘will deliver me from this body of death?’ And he answers for himself and for me, ‘Through Jesus Christ the Lord. '
We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be a god's chosen.
Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
Sins slowly suffocate the heart, and abandoning sins brings life to the heart.
He looked good, like sin in a suit.
The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin.
I cannot understand how anyone conscious of mortal sin can laugh or be merry.