S Quotes
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“Sin is self-imposed judgment created by the absence of love in our material world.”
Source: Believing Becoming Being
“Sin is senseless error.”
“Sin is serious—so serious it sent Jesus Christ to the cross. Flee from [sin] and stay close to Christ.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Sin is shameful action.”
“Sin is sin.”
“Sin is snare.”
“Sin is sovereign till sovereign grace dethrones it.”
Source: The Salt Cellars
“Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it.”
Source: Maximized Manhood: A Guide to Family Survival
“Sin is submitting to self-will; Holiness is surrendering to God's will. Sin clings to the temporal; Holiness seeks the eternal.”
“Sin is that God said something and i don't think so.
Sin is to be conceived with my own ideas.
Sin is that i see it my way and not God's way.
Sin is my own Ideas. Sin is Unbelieve”
“Sin is the assassin of the soul.”
“Sin is the delusion of our feelings; while crime is the delusion of our actions.”
“Sin is the despairing refusal to find your deepest identity in your relationship and service to God.”
Source: The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism
“Sin is the fate prepared by the individual when he disowns himself and makes of himself a mere object. Man does not fall into the sin of his fate, but into the fate of his sin.”
Source: Essence of Judaism
“Sin is the fentanyl of the soul. There’s a whole lot of dead people who thought that they could control the dosage.”
“Sin is the fruit of self glory. Self glory is the root of all sins. Lucifer cast out of heaven because he wanted to be like God (he glorified self), not because he did a sin (angels were created not to be able to sin). He then tempted Adam with that self glory (wanted to be like God) that made him fall (The Fall of Angel), and he succeeded making Adam fall (The Fall of Man).”
“Sin is the great clogger, and the blood of Christ is the great cleanser.”
Source: Billy Graham in Quotes
“Sin is the handle by which I get Christ,...”
“Sin is the insurrection and rebellion of the heart against God; it turns from Him, and turns against Him; it takes up arms against God.”
Source: Heaven opened; or, A brief and plain discovery of the riches of God's covenant of grace
“Sin is the Monster we love to deny. It is crouching at the door and it wants you, but you must overcome it.”
Source: The Oath
“Sin is the most expensive thing in the universe. Nothing else can cost so much.”
“Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness.”
Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks
“Sin is the one thing I abhor - for it is the one thing that can, if unrepented of, separate us, not from Christ, but from the consciousness of his presence. But I have learned that there is instantaneous forgiveness and restoration to be had always. That there need be no times of despair.”
Source: How I Know God Answers Prayer: The Personal Testimony of One Life-Time
“Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.”
Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray
“Sin is the quintessence of evil; it has made all the evils that there are & is itself worse than all evils it has made. It is so evil that it is impossible to make it good or lovely by all the arts that can be used.”
Source: The Sinfulness of Sin
“Sin is the reality of our lives and of this world. Sin is the dark side, the contrary power the destructive activity in the world. To triumph over sin would mean to build up our lives, the lives of others, of the family, of the community, of the Church, of the world, without ever making a step backward... The triumph over sin would mean that not a single justified desire would ever be frustrated, that not a single sigh would ever be ignored, that not a single tear would ever fall into the dark abyss of despair, and that not a single hope would ever be betrayed.”
Source: In the School of Love
“Sin is the reality of our lives and of this world. Sin is the dark side, the contrary power, the destructive activity in the world. To triumph over sin would mean to build up our lives, the lives of others, of the family, of the community, of the Church, of the world, without ever making a step backward... The triumph over sin would mean that now a single justified desire would ever be frustrated, that not a single sigh would ever be ignored, that not a single tear would ever fall into the dark abyss of despair, and that not a single hope would ever be betrayed.”
Source: In the School of Love
“Sin is the result of deep and unmet needs.”
“Sin is the second most powerful force in the universe, for it sent Jesus to the cross. Only one force is greater-the love of God.”
Source: Hope for Each Day Signature Edition: Words of Wisdom and Faith
“Sin is the sharpest scourge”
Source: Katherine
“Sin is the transgression of the law, the death of Christ is the satisfaction of the law, justification is the verdict of the law, and sanctification is the believer's fulfillment of the law.”
Source: The Grace of Law: A Study in Puritan Theology
“Sin is the willful transgression of divine law. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is the gift of God to His children to correct and overcome the consequences of sin. The gift of the Atonement of Jesus Christ provides us at all times and at all places with the blessings of repentance and forgiveness.”
“Sin is to a nature what blindness is to an eye. The blindness of an evil or defect which is a witness to the fact that the eye was created to see the light and, hence, the very lack of sight is the proof that the eye was meant... to be the one particularly capable of seeing the light. Were it not for this capacity, there would be no reason to think of blindness as a misforture.”
Source: The City of God, Books XVII–XXII (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 24)
“Sin is too big to be handled alone.”
“Sin is too great an evil for man to meddle with. His attempts to remove it do but increase it, and his endeavours to approach God in spite of it aggravate his guilt.”
Source: The everlasting righteousness; or, How shall man be just with God?.
“Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.”
“Sin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness.”
“Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.”
Source: Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic
“Sin is what it is because it assaults and denies Love, and that Love is what it is precisely because it answers, heals, and redeems the very sin that assaults it.”
“Sin is what keeps you from experiencing the fullness of God, yet it is the one thing that ought to compel you to seek Him.”
Source: Talk To Jesus
“Sin is what was done to you, or sometimes it's what you did, but sin is not who you are.”
Source: Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your Table: It's Time to Win the Battle of Your Mind...
“Sin is what you do when you are not satisfied in God.”
“Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.”
Source: Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God
“Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness.”
Source: Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God
“Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness. That promise enslaves us until we believe that God is more to be desired than life itself (Psalm 63:3). Which means that the power of sin's promise is broken by the power of God's.”
Source: Future Grace, Revised Edition: The Purifying Power of the Promises of God
“Sin is whatever obscures the soul.”
“Sin is when you do something that is against your well-being”
Source: Book of Wisdom
“Sin is when you knowingly overdo something. But if you do it in moderation, you're still in the safe zone.”
“Sin is when you turn away from God—or, in the other language, alienation occurs when the ego, that erratic, unreliable driver of the personality, temporarily turns aside from the great quest for integration with the inner self, the self that’s authentic, the self that contains the potential to be fully human, fully fulfilled and fully alive.”
Source: Mystical Paths
“Sin is wrong, not because of what it does to me, or my spouse, or child, or neighbor, but because it is an act of rebellion against the infinitely holy and majestic God.”