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In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.
The best men of the best epochs are simply those who make the fewest blunders and commit the fewest sins.
If you knew the true value of yourself, you will never allow yourself to be humiliated by committing sins.
There is no sin so profound, no despondency so low, no misery so abject, but the love of Christ is deeper.
People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.
Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.
More sinners are cursed at not because we despise their sins but because we envy their success at sinning.
To just read the Bible, attend church, and avoid “big” sins-is this passionate, wholehearted love for God?
The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns.
Not only has the debt (of our sins) been fully paid, there is no possibility of ever going into debt again.
Sin is much more than doing the wrong thing. It begins withloving, worshiping, and serving the wrong thing.
The thing that awakens the deepest fountain of gratitude in a human being is that God has forgiven his sin.
To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.
Should we all confess our sins to one another we would all laugh at one another for our lack of originality
There is no sin so prevalent, so insidious, and so deep as the sin of fearing people more than we fear God.
Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.
When God saves us through Christ, He not only saves us from the penalty of sin, but also from its dominion.
The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.
When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.
The difference between a crime of evil and a crime of illness is the difference between a sin and a symptom.
To whom much is given, much is required. Righteousness exalts a nation...but sin is a reproach to any people
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
He who seeks forgiveness of his sins loves humility, but if he condemns another he seals his own wickedness.
Long before genetics became a flourishing field, Christians have spoken about sin as an inherited condition.
It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.
Sin is a refusal to grow, a refusal to love, a refusal to get committed, to be concerned, and to take risks.
Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others.
We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist; we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the Eucharist.
Whoever mocks his brother for a sin they repented from will not die till he himself falls into the same sin.
Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.
The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must 'plead guilty' before God can declare us innocent.
No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that.
Pastors are sent to utter the deep things of God for the conviction of sin, and for edification and comfort.
Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good.
I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else
A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.
Let us this very day begin anew, and now say, with all our hearts, we will forsake our sins and be righteous.
Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.
May we be as severe with ourselves over our own subtle sins as we are with the vile sins we condemn in others
In recompense, envy may be the subtlest - perhaps I should say the most insidious - of the seven deadly sins.
The Lord Jesus Christ would have the whole world to know, that though He pardons sin, He will not protect it.
The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by Allah than the good deed which turns you arrogant.
Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin?
If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.
An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents.
Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.
In the beginning, sin is like a thread of a spider's web. But in the end, it becomes like the cable of a ship.
Sunglasses always hide a multitude of sins. Sunglasses and a great pair of heels can turn most outfits around.
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.