Quotes and Sayings About Sin

I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
-- J. I. Packer

#Prayer #Spirit #Sin

There are no small sins against a great God
-- J. I. Packer

#Sin

Our best works are shot through with sin and contain something for which we need to be forgiven.
-- J. I. Packer

#Needs #Sin #Shots

He that has learned to feel his sins, and to trust Christ as a Saviour, has learned the two hardest and greatest lessons in Christianity.
-- J. I. Packer

#Two #Lessons #Sin

Sin must be within God's eternal decrees in some sense in which He is not the author of it . . . We must conclude then that within the decrees of God, there are decrees of permission of those things of which God Himself is not the author
-- J. Oliver Buswell

#Sin #Permission #Decree

The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
-- J. Robert Oppenheimer

#War #World #Sin

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.
-- J. Robert Oppenheimer

#Humor #Sin #Crude

The greatest sin is sinning against love.
-- J. Vernon McGee

#Sin #Sinning

Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.
-- Jack Kerouac

#Wisdom #Forgiving #Sin

Dying is not a sin. Not living is.
-- Jack Lemmon

#Death #Dying #Sin

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.
-- Jacqueline Carey

#Pay #Remember #Sin

The depravity which sin has produced in human nature extends to the whole of it. There is no part of man's nature which is unaffected by it. Man's nature is all of a piece, and what affects it at all affects it altogether
-- James Denney

#Men #Pieces #Sin

There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin.
-- James Ellis

#Heart #Sin #Remorse

The scapegoat upon whom the sins of the people are periodically laid, may also be a human being.
-- James G. Frazer

#People #May #Sin

Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.
-- James Joyce

#Soul #Lovers #Sin

The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.
-- James MacDonald

#Humanity #Problem #Sin

Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.
-- James Reston

#Golf #Men #Sin

To condemn your sin in another is hypocrisy. Not to condemn is to reserve your right to sin.
-- James Richardson

#Hypocrisy #Sin

When we turn from our sin, and have the blessed forgiveness of the Almighty, then we can ask Him to run things, and let Him be in charge.
-- Jan Karon

#Running #Blessed #Sin

But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.
-- Jean de La Fontaine

#Weakness #Return #Sin

Great crimes come never singly; they are linked To sins that went before.
-- Jean Racine

#Sin #Crime

Im always suspicious of people who repent of other peoples sins.
-- Jean-Marie Le Pen

#People #Sin #Repent

Being afraid is the worst sin there is.
-- Jean-Paul Belmondo

#Sin #Worst #Being Afraid

We are all more than the sum of our sins,
-- Jeaniene Frost

#Sin

We're not punished for our sins, lad. We're punished by them.
-- Jennifer Donnelly

#Sin #Lad

I'm accused of cleverness as if it were a sin. She is merely clever, they say.
-- Jennifer Stone

#Clever #Sin #Accused

I have a head for business and a body for sin. Unfortunately, the sin appears to be gluttony.
-- Jenny Colgan

#Business #Body #Sin

I was raised to feel that doing nothing was a sin. I had to learn to do nothing.
-- Jenny Joseph

#Doing Nothing #Sin #Raised

I am discontented because I have not these things which God never yet promised me, and therefore I sin much against the Gospel, and against the grace of faith.
-- Jeremiah Burroughs

#Grace #Sin

The cure for the sin of envy and jealousy is to find our contentment in God
-- Jerry Bridges

#Envy #Contentment #Sin