Quotes about Sin

The Lord, however, not only forbids any image of himself to be erected by a statuary, but to be formed by any artist whatever, because every such image is sinful and insulting to his majesty.

Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.

A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous...

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.

Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun,Which was my sin, though it were done before?Wilt thou forgive that sin; through which I run,And do run still: though still I do deplore?When thou hast done, thou hast not done,For, I have more.

Thy sins and hairs may no man equal call, for as thy sins increase, thy hairs do fall.

O miserable condition of man, which is not imprinted by God, who, as he is immortal himself, had put a coal, a beam of immortality into us, which we might have blown into a flame, but blew it by our first sin; we beggared ourselves by hearkening after falses riches, and infatuated ourselves by hearkening after false knowledge.

The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.

In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.

The Bible says that God puts government on earth to punish evildoers. Not good-doers. Evildoers.

My parents taught me that racial prejudice is a sin, one that robs the world of great minds and talents.