The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's sorrow over sin, but for God's wrath on sin.
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought! My sin, not in part but the whole, Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more, Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!
It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house of the harlot, but to fly from all appearance of evil (Prov. 5:8, I Thess. 5:22). The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance; he that will be so bold as to attempt to dance upon the brink of the pit, may find by woeful experience that it is a righteous thing with God that he should fall into the pit.
Imagination is a God-given gift; but if it is fed dirt by the eye, it will be dirty. All sin, not least sexual sin, begins with the imagination. Therefore what feeds the imagination is of maximum importance in the pursuit of kingdom righteousness.
What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.
Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason.
Dying is not a sin. Not living is.
You would think that everyone would leap at the chance to get rid of sin. Not so. They want relief not a cure.
Christian liberty is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin.
Jesus died for our sins, not our sexuality.
It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.
The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.
We. . . sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.
Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.
By the supernatural miracle of God's grace I stand justified, not because I am sorry for my sin, not because I have repented, but because of what Jesus has done.
It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.
Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.
Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification.
To engage people in culture we must remember that holiness is separation from sin, not separation from sinners.
