“Salvation is to be saved from sin by grace.”
“The love of God is deeply rooted in sacrifice of His only Begotten Son, to save mankind from sin.”
“Yet, unbelief doesn't see God as the ultimate good. So it can't see sin as the ultimate evil. It instead sees sin as a good thing and thus God's commands as a stumbling block to joy. In believing the devil, I didn't need a pentagram pendant to wear, neither did I need to memorize a hex or two. All I had to do was trust myself more than God's Word. I had to believe that my thoughts, my affections, my rights, my wishes, were worthy of absolute obedience and that in laying prostrate before the flimsy throne I'd made for myself, that I'd be doing a good thing.”
Source: Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been
“Since man ceases not to be sinful, it is a great blessing that Jehovah ceases not to be merciful.”
Source: The Treasury of David, Volumes #1-3
“. . . not only our works, but also our thoughts, are open before God.”
Source: First Apology of Justin Martyr
“It is quite useless to ask a man to adopt the Christian view of the gospel unless he first has the Christian view of sin.”
Source: God Transcendent
“In going to the cross, Jesus was not being practical; he was being faithful. Jesus didn’t take a pragmatic approach to the problem of evil; Jesus took an aesthetic approach to the problem of evil. Jesus chose to absorb the ugliness of evil and turn it into something beautiful—the beauty of forgiveness.”
Source: Beauty Will Save the World
“...this insolence was turned by the providence of God to a very different purpose; for the face of Christ, dishonoured by spitting and blows, has restored to us that image which had been disfigured, and almost effaced, by sin.”
Source: Commentary on Mark
“We cannot deceive ourselves about offering the whole world as a sacrifice if we ourselves do not die to the world. Saint Paul, after his exhortation to offer our bodies as a living and holy sacrifice, continued, "do not be confirmed to this world" (Romans 12:2), and elsewhere he declared, "The world has been crucified to me, and I to the world" (Galatians 6:14)”
Source: Sober Intoxication of the Spirit: Filled With the Fullness of God
“Sin, when in the body, cannot not stay put. It's not a guest that stays in one room, making sure not to disturb the others. It is a tenant that lives in everything and goes everywhere. It can bleed into every part, choking out anything holy. The glass shattered and broke when it moved in. Adam and Eve, God's first image-bearers, made to love and reflect God in creation, had now become the world's first sinners.”
Source: Gay Girl, Good God: The Story of Who I Was and Who God Has Always Been