Quotes about Sin

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

People give way to sexual sin because they don't have fullness of joy and gladness in Jesus.

If I were to put my finger on one devastating sin today, it would not be the so-called women's movement, but the lact of spiritual leaderhsip by men at home and in the church

Esteeming God less than anything is the essence of evil.

The only sin that we can defeat is a forgiven sin.

In dying he satisfied the claims of sin; and in living he satisfies the claims of God.

Sin's outcome is eternal misery. What infinite ugliness then must be the ugliness of sin. This is the constant subject of preaching, for this is what we must ever overcome. It is more serious than Satan and sickness and insanity. None of those can damn a soul. Only sin can damn. This we must defeat in preaching, or all is in vain. Flippancy in and around our preaching communicates to people that sin is not as serious as the Bible says it is.

There is no thought in the Bible that Satan had to be paid off to let sinners be saved. What happened to Satan when Christ died was not payment, but defeat.

The difference is that when you develop patterns of sin in the majority race, they have no racial connotation. Since majority people don't think of themselves in terms of race, none of our dysfunctions is viewed as a racial dysfunction. When you are the majority ethnicity, nothing you do is ethnic. It's just the way it's done. When you are a minority, everything you do has colour.

The fight for joy is the fight to see and believe Christ as more to be desired than the promises of sin.

It is crucial that we realize that grace in Paul's vocabulary is not just a divine disposition to pardon sin. It is also a divine power to work in us all that God requires from us.

What is needed is a miracle. I mean that literally. A supernatural in-breaking of God through the gospel of Christ. It is not even possible to describe the hope-filled relational dynamics that may happen when the gospel explodes in two hearts that bring such radically different experiences of sin and suffering to the relationship.