S Quotes
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“Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside. It's not my purpose to punish it; it's my joy to cure it.”
Source: The Shack
“Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside.”
“Sin is lack of conformity to the moral law of God, either in act, disposition, or state”
Source: Systematic Theology : Volume II (Illustrated)
“Sin is like a cancer that destroys step by step, sometimes so slowly we don't realize what's happening to us.”
“Sin is like a journey, it begins with one step.”
“Sin is like a poison, which corrupts the blood, infects the heart, and without a sovereign Antidote, brings death. Such is the venomous nature of sin, it is deadly and damning. Sin is worse than hell, but yet God, by His mighty overruling power, makes sin in the issue turn to the good of His people. Hence the golden saying of Augustine, ‘God would never permit evil, if He could not bring good out of evil.’” - Thomas Watson”
Source: All Things for Good
“Sin is like a shadow; it will follow you until you reach a dead end unless you decide to sin no more.”
“Sin is like an incredible meal that becomes poisonous venom in your stomach. What you eat on Earth you may digest in Hell.”
“Sin is like digging in the garbage! At first it seems odious and distasteful, but as you become more accustomed to it, it seems less so, and finally you're in it all the way.”
“Sin is like mold—the longer it lives, the blacker it becomes. And spores can’t be avoided. Never.”
Source: The Fallen Boys
“Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.”
“Sin is man's, last attempt to perfection.”
“Sin is merely the lack of Love”
“Sin is misery, because it’s the perversion of our natures away from God. Sin deforms human life, which always leads to suffering. We cannot hope to despise God and his ways and remain authentically human—yet the singular history of the human race is that we do just that: break loose from God, tear up our roots in his life-giving presence, and then wonder why it hurts. Sin ruins us; and in ruining us it makes us guilty. It makes us feel guilty because we are guilty, our lives characterized by iniquity and lawlessness.”
“Sin is more dangerous than wild bears, more deadly than blazing forest fires. Ask Nebuchadnezzar, who lost his mind because he refused to deal with his pride. Ask Samson, who was reduced to a pathetic shred of a man because he never got control over the lusts of his flesh. Ask Achan and Ananias and Sapphira, who all lost their lives over “small,” secret sins.”
Source: Holiness: The Heart God Purifies
“Sin is more than a stain. Sin is a wound; it needs to be treated, healed. The place where my encounter with the mercy of Jesus takes place is my sin.”
Source: The Name of God is Mercy
“Sin is more than an act or a series of acts; it is a man's make-up.”
Source: Sovereignty of God
“Sin is much more than doing the wrong thing. It begins withloving, worshiping, and serving the wrong thing.”
“Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.”
Source: Works
“Sin is never free, there's either an up-front cost or an invoice to pay later.”
Source: Devil's Daughter
“Sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet.”
Source: Temptation and Sin
“Sin is no little thing. It girded the Redeemer’s head with thorns, and pierced his heart . . . Look upon all sin as that which crucified the Saviour, and you will see it to be ‘exceeding sinful’.”
Source: Morning by Morning
“Sin is no longer about having the wrong religious methods or customs. If that were true then Jesus was guilty of sin for breaking the Sabbath, breaking fasts, and breaking lots of purity laws by touching the sick, eating and drinking with sinners, and conversing with Gentile women. Jesus radically redefined sin in his day as simply that which is unjust and harms others.”
Source: A Survival Guide for Heretics
“Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction.”
Source: Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)
“Sin is not a stain that I must wash out. What I need to do is ask forgiveness and reconcile myself, not go to the drycleaners. I have to go encounter Jesus who gave his life for me.”
“Sin is not about the personal imperfection of the self. Rather, sin is any act that breaks any of the relationships God declared very good in the beginning.”
“Sin is not an obstacle; it’s the key that opens the door. The greatest truth of all is also the most surprising: salvation is only for sinners”
Source: Prohibition A
“Sin is not an unfortunate slip or a regrettable act; it is a posture of defiance against a holy God.”
Source: A Gentle Thunder: Hearing God Through the Storm
“Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are.”
“Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden,
but it is forbidden because it is hurtful.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“Sin is not just action. It's life direction.”
“Sin is not just affairs, or porn shops, or drug cartels. It is also the ignorance and brokenness of the world, extreme self-centeredness, hoarding wealth, using others as objects, not caring.”
Source: Dusk, Night, Dawn: On Revival and Courage
“Sin is not just breaking God's laws; it is breaking His heart.”
“Sin is not just breaking the rules, it is putting yourself in the place of God as Savior, Lord, and Judge… There are two ways to be your own Savior and Lord. One is by breaking all the moral laws and setting your own course, and one is by keeping all the moral laws and being very, very good.”
Source: The Prodigal God: Recovering the heart of the Christian faith
“Sin is not merely wrong doing; sin is essentially wrong adoring. Sin is the fastening of our hearts on any good, treasure, or security in life that replaces the good, treasure, and security of God.”
Source: The Joy Project: A True Story of Inescapable Happiness
“Sin is not only manifested in certain acts that are forbidden by divine command. Sin also appears in attitudes and dispositions and feelings. Lust and hate are sins as well as adultery and murder. And, in the traditional Christian view, despair and chronic boredom - unaccompanied by any vicious act - are serious sins. They are expressions of man's separation from God, as the ultimate good, meaning, and end of human existence.”
“Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.”
“Sin is not so sinful as hypocrisy.”
“Sin is not so sweet in the committing as it is heavy and bitter in the reckoning.”
Source: The soul's conflict and victory over itself by faith
“Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.”
Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters: Second series
“Sin is not weakness, it is a disease; it is red-handed rebellion against God and the magnitude of that rebellion is expressed by Calvary's cross.”
“Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God.”
Source: Conformed to His Image / Servant as His Lord: Lessons on Living Like Jesus
“Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness.”
Source: Gravity and Grace
“Sin is nothing more than a most extreme form of amnesia. It is forgetting who were when we were created as a spirit that came forth from the heart of God the Father—as a spirit made in His sinless image.”
“Sin is often, if not always, the perversion of something good. In the midst of all our sinning, though, God is willing to forgive us, change us,
and give us a new power to overcome that sin.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Sin is one thing but instinctive reaction or passion is another. These are our reactions: pride, anger, sexual indulgence, hate, greed, and so on. The corresponding sins are the gratification of these passions: when a man acts and brings into corporeal reality those works which were suggested to him by his desires. It is impossible to exist without desires arising, but not to give way to them is by no means impossible.”
Source: Discourses and Sayings
“Sin is passionate lust in the flesh.”
“Sin is powerful, but not as powerful as the liberating power of grace.”
“Sin is really an extreme form of amnesia. It is forgetting who you were when you were created as a spirit which came forth from the heart of God—a spirit made in His perfect, sinless image.”
“Sin is rebellion against God.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes