Be strong enough to say this to yourself -Sins were mine, and so shall I have to pay for it

No one expected the preacher's daughter to sin, but they sure would love to catch me at it.

Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.

You will never see the preciousness of a Savior, if you do not see the reality of your sin.

It is men's worst fear, personally and professionally, that women will pin the sin on them.

Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.

cruelty is the only thing that strikes me as completely unforgivable. The unpardonable sin.

Two points of danger beset mankind; namely, making sin seem either too large or too little.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.

In the old, sin contaminates. In the new, righteousness contaminates. It's a different day.

Not to be occupied with your sin, but to be occupied with God brings deliverance from self.

The advantage of being able to identify sin is that you can go out and do it, and enjoy it.

Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God.

One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!"

The more sin is rationalized, the greater the possibility of destruction by Satan's wolves.

Where sin has abounded in me, Grace now much more abounds in me. I live by that 'much more.'

God desires to reveal to us that His capacity to forgive is bigger than our capacity to sin.

If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God.

Is it a sin to hold something more important than your life? Should I be condemned for that?

From Obedience and submission comes all our virtues, and all sin is comes from self-opinion.

The sin of all time has been the exercise of assumed powers. This is the essence of tyranny.

That was my nature - going from temptation after temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.

It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.

The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?

Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance.

Confession of sin shows us more clearly our need of mercy-and endears God's mercy more to us

If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon.

There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.

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

We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly.

'Original Sin' is, for me, a murder mystery with a huge cast that plays out on a grand stage.

There is no kindness more cruel than the kindness which consigns another person to their sin.

The public scandal is what constitutes the offence: sins sinned in secret are no sins at all.

Standing by and doing nothing while a sin is committed is as bad as committing the sin itself

That love of God is hard and marvelous. It cannot and will not be broken because of our sins.

When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.

Sin corrupts even our good deeds. We injure our shoulder trying to pat ourselves on the back.

If you care to see God, be pure. If you will not be pure, you will grow more and more impure.

It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.

When we speak of our virtues we are competitors, when we confess our sins we become brothers.

Despite our sins, we can say with Peter: Lord, you know everything, you know that I love you.

What we can't do in heaven is sin and witness. And obviously God didn't leave us here to sin.

The presumptuous sin of Uzzah was that He assumed his hands were less polluted than the dirt.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

You ask a lot of questions, don't you?" "My brother always says curiosity is my besetting sin.

intellect is a sin that must be atoned for by leading exactly the life of those who have none.

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