Quotes about Sin

it is important to mark this circumstance, that at the very   time when the men of Sodom, having dismissed all fear of God, were   indulging themselves, and were promising themselves impunity, however they might sin, God was taking counsel to destroy them, and was moved, by the tumultuous cry of their iniquities, to descend to earth, while they were buried in profound sleep.

For if by natural instinct or wisdom we could bring ourselves back to the road and escape from error, we would have no need for Christ.

God does not avenge certain crimes in this world, but postpones punishment to the next, to deal with them all the more severely; conversely.

It is not the mere fear of punishment that restrains [man] from sin. Loving and revering God as his father, honouring and obeying Him as his master, although there were no hell, he would revolt at the very idea of offending Him.

Let us know, therefore, that when we have departed from Christ, nothing remains for us but death.

Since the life of the soul is bound to God, those who are by sin alienated from him are to be regarded as dead.

Rom. 7:10, that the law is turned into a source of ruin for us, not because it is evil but because we are wicked.

Adam did not take away the will, but made it a slave where it was free. It is not only prone to sin, but is made subject to sin.

The law itself does not produce sin; it finds sin in us. It offers life to us; but we, being evil, derive nothing but death from it.

Let us remember, therefore, that will in man is one thing, and the free choice of good and evil another: for freedom of choice having been taken away after the fall of the first man, will alone was left; but so completely captive under the tyranny of sin, that it is only inclined to evil.

Hence the unskillful rashly infer, that man did not sin by free choice.

God has not rendered you due punishment, but bestows upon you unmerited grace. If you wish to be an alien from grace, boast your merits," (in Psa 70) Again, "You are nothing in yourself, sin is yours, merit God's. Punishment is your due; and when the reward shall come, God shall crown his own gifts, not your merits.