Quotes and Sayings About Sin
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And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.
-- Joseph J. Ellis -
Knowing that you are completely forgiven destroys the power of sin in your life.
-- Joseph Prince -
We are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins.
-- Joseph Prince -
The gospel of grace is not the license to sin. On the contrary, it is the power for them to sin no more!
-- Joseph Prince -
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Let us this very day begin anew, and now say, with all our hearts, we will forsake our sins and be righteous.
-- Joseph Smith, Jr. -
It iz comparitively eazy tew repent ov the sins that we hav committed, but tew repent ov thoze which we intend to commit, is asking tew mutch ov enny man, now days.
-- Josh Billings -
Well how can a holy, just, righteous God allow sin into His presence?
-- Josh McDowell -
Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.
-- Josiah Stamp -
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Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.
-- Joyce Cary -
God's grace justifies sinners, but it never justifies sin!
-- Joyce Meyer -
Grace is not the freedom to sin; it is the power to live a holy life.
-- Joyce Meyer -
God forgives us and remembers our sin no more; therefore, stop remembering what God has forgotten.
-- Joyce Meyer -
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Jesus sees our sin more clearly than anyone, yet He loves us more than anyone.
-- Judah SmithSource : Twitter post from Mar 21, 2013
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Nowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn't share our rating system. To him, all sin is equally evil, and all sinners are equally lovable.
-- Judah SmithSource : Judah Smith (2013). “Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc
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We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.
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Once you savor God's goodness, sin holds no lasting appeal.
-- Judah SmithSource : Judah Smith (2013). “Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human”, p.49, Thomas Nelson Inc
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Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
-- Jules Feiffer -
Lord Jesus, I have heard you say: 'Sin is necessary but all will be well, and all will be well, and every kind of thing will be well'.
-- Julian of Norwich -
That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.
-- Julian of Norwich -
But Jesus, who in this Vision informed me of all that is necessary for me, answered and said: It was necessary that there should be sin; but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.
-- Julian of Norwich -
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For in every soul that shall be saved is a Godly Will that never assented to sin, nor ever shall.
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Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.
-- Julianna BaggottSource : Julianna Baggott (2001). “Girl Talk”, p.232, Simon and Schuster
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I want to know what it is, this 'sin' they say I've committed.
-- Jun Mochizuki -
Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.
-- Jupiter HammonSource : Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc
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Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.
-- Juvenal -
Part of the sin of Pride is a subtle but deep racism.
-- K.P. Yohannan -
Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.
-- Karen ArmstrongSource : "Atoms and Eden: Conversations on Religion and Science". Book by Steve Paulson. Oxford University Press, p. 63, October 5, 2010.
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When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.
-- Karl Barth -
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It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.
-- Karl Barth -
Radically and basically, all sin is simply ingratitude.
-- Karl Barth