Sinner Quotes

Mr. Edwards and the Spider"I saw the spiders marching through the air,Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed dayIn latter August when the hayCame creaking to the barn. But whereThe wind is westerly,Where gnarled November makes the spiders flyInto the apparitions of the sky,They purpose nothing but their ease and dieUrgently beating east to sunrise and the sea;What are we in the hands of the great God?It was in vain you set up thorn and briarIn battle array against the fireAnd treason crackling in your blood;For the wild thorns grow tameAnd will do nothing to oppose the flame;Your lacerations tell the losing gameYou play against a sickness past your cure.How will the hands be strong? How will the heart endure?A very little thing, a little worm,Or hourglass-blazoned spider, it is said,Can kill a tiger. Will the deadHold up his mirror and affirmTo the four winds the smellAnd flash of his authority? It’s wellIf God who holds you to the pit of hell,Much as one holds a spider, will destroy,Baffle and dissipate your soul. As a small boyOn Windsor Marsh, I saw the spider dieWhen thrown into the bowels of fierce fire:There’s no long struggle, no desireTo get up on its feet and flyIt stretches out its feetAnd dies. This is the sinner’s last retreat;Yes, and no strength exerted on the heatThen sinews the abolished will, when sickAnd full of burning, it will whistle on a brick.But who can plumb the sinking of that soul?Josiah Hawley, picture yourself castInto a brick-kiln where the blastFans your quick vitals to a coal—If measured by a glass,How long would it seem burning! Let there passA minute, ten, ten trillion; but the blazeIs infinite, eternal: this is death,To die and know it. This is the Black Widow, death.

Robert Lowell

Every insecure soul has a government of their own and a paid judge in their court room.

Shannon L. Alder

In case you’re not bright enough to figure it out, there’s a real upside to having a sinner like me answer your phone. I lie, and your conscience stays clear.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

What matters is the sinner becomes a saint through the grace of salvation in Christ Jesus.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Go back to Socrates: "Know thyself." For Socrates, there are only two kinds of people: the wise, who know they are fools; and fools, who think they are wise. Similarly, for Christ and all the prophets, there are only two kinds of people: saints, who know they are sinners; and sinners, who think they are saints. Which are you?

Peter Kreeft

As sinners we are like addicts - addicted to ourselves and our own projects. The theology of glory simply seeks to give those projects eternal legitimacy. The remedy for the theology of glory, therefore, cannot be encouragement and positive thinking, but rather the end of the addictive desire. Luther says it directly: "The remedy for curing desire does not lie in satisfying it, but in extinguishing it." So we are back to the cross, the radical intervention, end of the life of the old and the beginning of the new. Since the theology of glory is like addiction and not abstract doctrine, it is a temptation over which we have no control in and of ourselves, and from which we must be saved. As with the addict, mere exhortation and optimistic encouragement will do no good. It may be intended to build up character and self-esteem, but when the addict realizes the impossibility of quitting, self-esteem degenerates all the more. The alcoholic will only take to drinking in secret, trying to put on the facade of sobriety. As theologians of glory we do much the same. We put on a facade of religious propriety and piety and try to hide or explain away or coddle our sins.... As with the addict there has to be an intervention, an act from without. In treatment of alcoholics some would speak of the necessity of 'bottoming out,' reaching the absolute bottom where one can no longer escape the need for help. Then it is finally evident that the desire can never be satisfied, but must be extinguished. In matters of faith, the preaching of the cross is analogous to that intervention. It is an act of God, entirely from without. It does not come to feed the religious desires of the Old Adam and Eve but to extinguish them. They are crucified with Christ to be made new.

Gerhard O. Forde

And though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance

Brennan Manning

Religion imprisons God. By its own accord, if we are made in the image and likeness of God, then His condemnation of the sinner is an act of hypocrisy. I believe God to be greater than that.

Steve Maraboli

Two types of dust I require to wipe my sin

Munia Khan

Take his name. Because I love him.Because when I look into his eyes, nothing else exists but him. Because even when I don’t look into his eyes, nothing else exists but him.--rachels thought

Katy Evans

Hate the sin, not the sinner, isn't that what good people say? Or are you asking yourself at what point does the sin overtake the sinner?

Katie McGarry

No one could preach if he seriously looked at his own sins.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Sanity for anyone is pretty much out of the question, as both the saint and the sinner appear only equally insane: the saint appears it for actually believing in a place of eternal torment; the sinner, for deciding to risk going to that place of eternal torment.

Criss Jami

Lucifer was engraving Nate’s name on a cage right now.

Kelly Moran

The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.

Billy Sunday

Divine grace is available for each one of us.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It's a sin only if it harms you

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Through Christ we have a new identity--we should not be speaking to our old man, the sinner, and giving him his identity back.

Eric Samuel Timm

I plan to be a sinner tonight. Could've been something else, but looked way too good in my red dress to be anything Christian.

Alysia Harris

You are a cool cemetery.You have the sinner’s graveYou have the saint’s earthcollidingYou have all the bedsnarrow as a knife;as if a rally of tombstones to defend death.But you can’t really postponethe inauguration of my burial,can you?From the poem - Few Words to Cemetery

Munia Khan

Progress in evil was quick and easy; Apollyon was not a chap who hid himself and he gave every assistance in his power. The growth in goodness was so slow, at times so flat, so dull, and like the White Queen one had to run so fast to stay where one was, let alone progress; and there were few men who dared to say they had found God. It was easy to be a clever sinner, for the race to an earthly visible goal was short to run, so impossibly hard to be a wise saint, with the goal set at so vast a distance from this world and clouded with such uncertainty.

Elizabeth Goudge

I think you are falling into the very general error of confining the spiritual world to the supremely good; but the supremely wicked, necessarily, have their portion in it. The merely carnal, sensual man can no more be a great sinner than he can be a great saint. Most of us are just indifferent, mixed-up creatures; we muddle through the world without realizing the meaning and the inner sense of things, and consequently, our wickedness and our goodness are alike second-rate, unimportant.

Arthur Machen

When you call someone a sinner, make sure you have no sin in you, and if you say you are without sin, you are a righteous liar.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Once again was it proved that the designs of Providence are impenetrable and that the sinner, climbing out of the pit of his filthiness, may feel himself touched by grace.

Gabriel Chevallier

Superficial views of God and His holiness will produce superficial views of sin and atonement. God hates sin. It is His uncompromising foe. Sin is vile and detestable in the sight of God . . .The sinner and God are at opposite poles of the moral universe.

Billy Graham

Can the sin of one or a few cause suffering for many? The answer, of course, is yes, for no sin is isolated in the life of the sinner. It spreads like poison gas into every available crevice.

Billy Graham

God hates sin not because he wants us to be good little boys and girls, but because he knows sin destroys that which he loves most: sinners.

Criss Jami

Christ came into the world to save sinners, not good people, and your unworthiness is your greatest claim for His salvation.

Hannah Whitall Smith

At Sunday worship, as in every dimension of our existence, many of us pretend to believe we are sinners. Consequently, all we can do is pretend we have been forgiven. As a result, our whole spiritual life is pseudo-repentance and pseudo-bliss.

Brennan Manning

Divine power transforms us, to be the better person, we ought to be.

Lailah Gifty Akita

No matter how bad you feel, God never sees you as a reckless person. He may see you as a sinner who needs to be re-washed to get back to his old vision for His purpose, but He will never see you as a hopeless being who was created for nothing. Now if God will not see you as hopeless, why then should you see yourself that way? Be bold to say am qualified to dominate the world!

Israelmore Ayivor

Sentence every immoral thought for detention and prosecution. Immorality is a powerful gadget that brings down great monuments of success. Don’t entertain immorality.

Israelmore Ayivor

No matter how bad you feel, God never sees you as a hopeless person. He may see you as a sinner who needs to be re-washed to get back to his old vision for His purpose, but He will never see you as a hopeless being.

Israelmore Ayivor

Love the sinner and hate the sin.

Augustine of Hippo

It is human to sin but divine to be saved.

Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no sin, no crime, no evil, God cannot forgive

Bangambiki Habyarimana

A man is called a saint not because he does no longer sin but because he recognizes his weakness and seeks for forgiveness every time he falls

Bangambiki Habyarimana

A man is called a sinner not because he sins more than others but because he defends he sins and glories in them and is unwilling to seek forgiveness

Bangambiki Habyarimana

A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.

Criss Jami

I am thankful to the Lord for my redemption. I was once lost, now I am saved by grace.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We must repent while the chance exists, to confess our sins.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We are all sinful. Trouble is that some men consider themselves less sinful than others or holier than others.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

Seek more strength for weaker spine No grape grows on sinner’s vine

Munia Khan

We all have sinned so far in our lives and might continue too but still we all love talking about others sins, Elaborating, exaggerating, laughing, commenting, cursing... And we all enjoy it hahaha

honeya

The devil can get you through your flesh. He knows the button to press on your flesh and have a way into your mind. The flesh becomes a transport medium for evil things if not killed for God. If Christ makes a home in your mind, satan can't get there.

Israelmore Ayivor

If we would answer the question of the existence of the Evil then we would not be sinners, we could make something else responsible.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

God of great mercy!God of great compassion!

Lailah Gifty Akita

All that I am is by the grace of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

God liberated us from darkness to walk in the glorious light.

Lailah Gifty Akita

We cannot save ourselves. Only God has the power to save us.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The Lord God must be greatly feared! We can’t stand his wrath.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Jesus Christ saves the sinner.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The Lord does not reject any one who comes to him.

Lailah Gifty Akita

If a man can save himself, there is no need for a Saviour.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Who can save a wretched soul? Only the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Rejected by man, yet accepted by the Maker.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The Lord will deliver us from every chain of sin, slavery and bondage.

Lailah Gifty Akita

God knows us more than we know Him.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Many a mess, but greater the grace of mercy.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Salvation belongs to the Saviour.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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