Quotes about Sin

Philip Yancey was dead-on when he said that some Christians get very angry toward other Christians who sin differently than they do.79

Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.

Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification.

The sin which is indulged to the greatest extent, which separates us from God and produces so many spiritual disorders, and which are contagious, is selfishness.

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.

Evil is the absence of God.

Half at least of all morality is negative and consists in keeping out of mischief. The lords prayer is less than 50 words long, and 6 of those words are devoted to asking god not to lead us into temptation.

Intellectuals are the kind of people who demand evidence and are shocked by logical inconsistencies and fallacies. They regard oversimplification as the original sin of the mind and have not use for the slogans, the unqualified assertion and sweeping generalization which are the propagandists stock in the trade.

For the good that I would,'" he quoted, "'I do not; and the evil that I would not, that I do.'" "Who said that?" "The man who invented Christianity—St. Paul.

I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."

Too much attention to a particular sin or sins, and/or too little attention to communion with God (two things that often occur in tandem) inevitably shrivel the soul of a Christian.