As there are silent depths in the ocean which the fiercest storm cannot reach, so there are silent, holy depths of the hearts of people which the storm of sin and sorrow can never disturb. To reach this silence and to live consciously in it is peace.
Because ALWAYS, even in the darkest moments, in moments of sin, in moments of weakness, in moments of failure, I have seen Jesus, and I trusted Him. . . He has not left me alone.
Everyone has his besetting sin.
Then be sure of one thing: The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have. The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.
Sin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness.
A sin. . . consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God
Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.
Anytime you commit sin and God deals with you, you have the opportunity to confess it. If you don't confess it, you only have one option but to cover it up.
Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.
The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, skepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin.
Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before.
He attacked us. What was I supposed to do? Invite him to dinner? (Sin)
Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you can commit.
To any honest observer, Zimbabwe's sin is that it has taken the position to right a wrong, whose resolution has been too long overdue--to return its land to its people.
Whatever the natural cause, sin is the true cause of all earthquakes.
So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.
Jesus sees our sin more clearly than anyone, yet He loves us more than anyone.
We tend to speak of sin in very personal and individual terms. Jeremiah does not downplay that, but he also sees how a whole society can be bound up in the tentacles of sin, in the assumptions that everybody around you makes, about how it becomes easier to sin than not to, and how we can become so confused and contradictory in our reactions, when sin is pointed out.
In the world it is called Tolerance, but in hell it is called Despair. . . the sin that believes in nothing, cares for nothing, seeks to know nothing, interferes with nothing, enjoys nothing, hates nothing, finds purpose in nothing, lives for nothing, and remains alive because there is nothing for which it will die.
Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
