Best behavior & sin Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“By striving to prove how much they deserve God's love, legalists miss the whole point of the gospel, that it is a gift from God to people who don't deserve it. The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.”

People Knows Whole Sin Missing Prove Behavior Solutions Deserve Strive Code Serving God Knowing God God's Love Gift From God

Book:What's So Amazing about Grace?

Source: What's So Amazing about Grace?

“The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.”

Problem Humanity Sin Behavior Core Vertical Horizontal

Author:James MacDonald

“Remember that God is within us when we are in a state of grace and outside of us when we are in a state of sin; but His angel never abandons us. . . He is our most sincere and faithful friend even when we sadden him with our bad behavior.”

States Remember Sin Grace Behavior Angel Faithful Abandon Sincere Bad Behavior Faithful Friends

Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“We often think more highly of ourselves than we ought to, and it's easy to judge others and be critical of their weaknesses and shortcomings. But this self-righteous attitude is a sin that we can be blinded to because we're so focused on what the other person did wrong. The reality is this attitude is worse than the wrong behavior we're judging.”

Thinking Persons Self Reality Easy Sin Attitude Judging Ought Behavior Weakness Critical Focused Righteous Shortcomings Blinded Self Righteous Easy To Judge

Author:Joyce Meyer

“Grace doesn't lead us into destructive behavior. Sin does. And grace is the only remedy for sin. The kindness of God leads to repentance.”

Doe Sin Kindness Grace Behavior Destructive Repentance Remedy Destructive Behavior Kindness Of God

Author:Tullian Tchividjian

“The distinction between feelings or inclinations on the one hand, and behavior on the other hand, is very clear. It's no sin to have inclinations that if yielded to would produce behavior that would be a transgression. The sin is in yielding to temptation. Temptation is not unique. Even the Savior was tempted.”

Ifs Feelings Hands Would Be Sin Clear Produce Behavior Unique Temptation Distinction Savior Tempted Inclination Transgression

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“Feelings can be controlled and behavior can be controlled. The line of sin is between the feelings and the behavior. The line of prudence is between the susceptibility and the feelings.”

Feelings Lines Sin Behavior Controlled Prudence Susceptibility

Author:Dallin H. Oaks

“Homosexual behavior is and will always remain before the Lord an abominable sin. Calling it something else by virtue of some political definition does not change that reality.”

Doe Reality Political Sin Lord Virtue Calling Behavior Definitions Homosexual

Author:Lance B. Wickman

“The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional. Anxiety is not a sin; it's an emotion. So don't be anxious about feeling anxious. Anxiety can, however, lead to sinful behavior. When we numb our fears with six-packs or food binges, when we spew anger like Krakatau, when we peddle our fears to anyone who will buy them, we're sinning.”

Feelings Sin Emotion Behavior Anxiety Prison Anxious Numb Sinning

Author:Max Lucado

“Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering.”

Action Spirit Suffering Father Sin Awareness Sorrow Behavior Endure Realization Savior Agony Godly Offended Our Actions Our Father Gifts Of The Spirit Offended You

Book:The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

Source: The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson

“Be very sure of this,-people never reject the Bible because they cannot understand it. They understand it only too well; they understand that it condemns their own behavior; they understand that it witnesses against their own sins, and summons them to judgment.”

People Wells Sin Behavior Judgment Witness Rejects

Book:The Upper Room: Biblical Truths For Modern Times

Source: The Upper Room: Biblical Truths For Modern Times

“No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin; he does not say, 'You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.' He attempts to find out what is wrong and to set it right.”

Men Giving Humans Doe Human Beings Sin Car Behavior Treats Wicked Attributes Annoying Foolishness Petrol

Book:Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

“The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my resume. I find I renounced ice cream for Lent to lose five excess pounds... I have fallen victim to what T.S. Eliot calls the greatest sin: to do the right thing for the wrong reason.”

“Indeed, what is startling about the notion of a victimless crime is that even when the behavior in question is genuinely victimless, its criminality is still affirmed by those who are eager to punish it. It is in such cases that the true genius lurking behind many of our laws stands revealed. The idea of a victimless crime is nothing more than a judicial reprise of the Christian notion of sin.”

Stills Ideas Christian Law Sin Behinds Cases Crime Genius Behavior Notion Judicial Lurking Criminality True Genius

Book:The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

“To say that a man is sinful because he sins is to give an operational definition of sin. To say that he sins because he is sinful is to trace his behavior to a supposed inner trait. But whether or not a person engages in the kind of behavior called sinful depends upon circumstances which are not mentioned in either question. The sin assigned as an inner possession (the sin a person "knows") is to be found in a history of reinforcement.”

Knows Men Giving Kind Persons Found Sin Depends Circumstances Behavior Definitions Possession Free Will Traits Reinforcement

Author:B. F. Skinner

“When a man acts in ways that annoy us we wish to think him wicked, and we refuse to face the fact that his annoying behavior is the result of antecedent causes which, if you follow them long enough, will take you beyond the moment of his birth, and therefore to events for which he cannot be held responsible by any stretch of imagination... When a motorcar fails to start, we do not attribute its annoying behavior to sin, we do not say, you are a wicked motorcar, and you shall not have any more gasoline until you go.”

Ifs Thinking Men Way Long Enough Moments Facts Faces Wish Causes Imagination Sin Results Failing Events Birth Behavior Responsible Refuse Wicked Free Will Attributes Annoying Gasoline

Author:Bertrand Russell

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