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“Men tell us in these days that sin is what you think it is. Well, it is not. Sin is what God thinks it is. You may think according to your own conscience. God thinks according to His.”

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John G. Lake

John G. Lake, born on March 18, 1870, and died on September 16, 1935, was a mysterious figure whose profession and category remain unknown. more

“To free a man from suffering, he must be set right, put in health; and the health at the root of man's being, his rightness, is to be free from wrongness, that is, from sin. A man is right when there is no wrong in him. I do not mean set free from the sins he has done: that will follow; I mean the sins he is doing, or is capable of doing; the sins in his being which spoil his nature — the wrongness in him — the evil he consents to; the sin he is, which makes him do the sin he does.”

Men Doe Sin

Author:George MacDonald

“Get alone with Jesus and either tell Him that you do not want sin to die out in you - or else tell Him that at all costs you want to be identified with His death.”

Want Dies Jesus Sin Cost

Book:My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

“Beloved, if any unholiness exists in the nature, it is not there by the consent of the Spirit of God. If unholiness is in your life it is because your soul is giving consent to it, and you are retaining it. Let it go. Cast it out and let God have His way in your life.”

Ifs Way Giving Soul Spirit Sin Letting Go Casts Your Soul Beloved Consent Let It Go Spirit Of God Retaining

Book:Living In God's Power

Source: Living In God's Power

“Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off your relish of spiritual things; in short, whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind; that thing is sin to you, however innocent it may be in itself.”

May Reason Spiritual Sin Conscience Innocent Tenderness Relish Lawfulness

Author:Susanna Wesley

“It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin.”

Easy Sin

Book:God's Workmanship

Source: God's Workmanship

“Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.”

Jesus Sin Pride Greed Hardest Hypocrisy Reserved Legalism

Author:Philip Yancey

“One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.”

Wells Real Sin Shame Our Time Misfortunes

Author:Louis Kronenberger

“To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.”

Sin Ashamed Baths Cleansing

Book:Creation in Christ: Unspoken Sermons

Source: Creation in Christ: Unspoken Sermons

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