I don't think that sin and pursuing happiness are not necessarily the same thing.
Resolved, to confess frankly to myself all that which I find in myself, either infirmity or sin; and, if it be what concerns religion, also to confess the whole case to God, and implore needed help.
There is no sin that God cannot pardon. All we need to do is ask for forgiveness
The difference between an unconverted and a converted man is not that the one has sins and the other has none; but that the one takes part with his cherished sins against a dreaded God and the other takes part with a reconciled God against his hated sins.
In short, a man must be set free from the sin he is , which makes him do the sin he does.
Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun.
Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.
We should not be entertained by the sins for which Christ died.
There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.
Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance.
What is most contrary to salvation is not sin but habit.
Make-up covers a multitude of sins.
If we can't "love the sinner; hate the sin" then how can we relate to ourselves? Love who we are in Christ but still hate the sin remaining.
The greatest sin today in the church is the man in the pew who is ignorant of the Bible.
All the good you've ever done does not make it permissible to sin now.
Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.
There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.
When my thirst for joy is satisfied by Christ, sin becomes unattractive.
Jesus died for our sins," Noah says solemnly. "What?!?" I reply, choking back my thoughts. "I was just seeing if you were listening.
People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.