So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world, as a public indecency.
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.
Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse.
I do sin, but I am not the devil.
Every kind of prayer, not intercessory prayer only, which is the highest kind of prayer, but all prayer, from the lowest kind to the highest, is impossible in a life of known and allowed sin.
Nature has no promise for society, least of all, any remedy for sin.
What we can't do in heaven is sin and witness. And obviously God didn't leave us here to sin.
Sin is not so sweet in the committing as it is heavy and bitter in the reckoning.
The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.
When a man is not deeply convicted of sin, it is a pretty sure sign that he has not truly repented. Experience has taught me that men who have very slight conviction of sin sooner or later lapse back into their old life.
My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner. '
History is a conveyor belt of corpses because of Adam's sin.
When a sinner has any just sense of his condition, as alienated from a holy God, he will not be apt to think of the unpardonable sin.
Women will sometimes confess their sins, but I never knew one to confess her faults.
A companion that feasts the company with and mirth, and leaves out the sin which is usually mixed with them, he is the man; and let me tell you, good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
It is great sin to swear unto a sin, But greater sin to keep a sinful oath.
The difference between rich and poor is not that the rich sin is more than the poor, that the rich find it easier to call sin a virtue.
Both good and evil, when they are full grown, become retrospective. . . That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporary suffering, 'No future bliss can make up for it,' not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory. And of some sinful pleasure they say 'Let me but have this and I'll take the consequences': little dreaming how damnation will spread back and back into their past and contaminate the pleasure of the sin.
The indulgence of one sin opens the door to further sins. The indulgence of one sin diverts the soul from the use of those means by which all other sins should be resisted.