Best grief & sin Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“No benefit comes from a just man's prayer if he who asks for it finds more pleasure in sin than in virtue. For Samuel mourned over Saul when he sinned, but he was not able to obtain God's mercy, for his grief was not supported by the necessary change of life on the part of the sinner. Hence God put an end to the pointless grief of His servant, saying to him, 'How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel?' (I Sam. 16:1).”

Ifs Men Long Ends Able Christian Asks Prayer Sin Pleasure Grief Virtue Seeing Benefits Mercy Israel Servant Life Changing Sinner Orthodox Rejected Mourn Pointless Necessary Change

Author:Maximus the Confessor

“O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good.”

Names Sin Grief Brother Holy Shame Mood

Book:The Poetical Works of

Source: The Poetical Works of

“Surely Scripture is right when it makes the sin of sins that unbelief, which is at bottom nothing else than a refusal to take the cup of salvation. Surely no sharper grief can be inflicted upon the Spirit of God than when we leave His gifts neglected and unappropriated.”

Spirit Sin Grief Salvation Bottom Scripture Cups Neglected Refusal Unbelief Spirit Of God

Book:MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

Source: MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture

“True repentance has as its constituent elements not only grief and hatred of sin, but also an apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ. It hates the sin, and not simply the penalty; and it hates the sin most of all because it has discovered God's love.”

Hate Christ Sin Grief Elements Hatred Mercy Repentance Penalties God's Love Apprehension Constituents Mercy Of God True Repentance

Book:Moses the Law-giver

Source: Moses the Law-giver

“When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.”

Dies Loss Sin Grief Pay Regret Thousand One You Love Someone You Love Piercings

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“However long the horror continued, one must not get to the stage of refusing to think about it. To shrink from direct pain was bad enough, but to shrink from vicarious pain was the ultimate cowardice. And whereas to conceal direct pain was a virtue, to conceal vicarious pain was a sin. Only by feeling it to the utmost, and by expressing it, could the rest of the world help to heal the injury which had caused it. Money, food, clothing, shelter - people could give all these and still it would not be enough; it would not absolve them from paying also, in full, the imponderable tribute of grief.”

Source: A pocketful of pebbles

“The sin we commit against each other as women is lack of support. We hurt. We hurt each other. We hide. We project. We become mute or duplicitous, and we fester like boiling water until one day we erupt like a geyser. Do we forget we unravel in grief?”

Water Hurt Sin Forget Grief Support One Day Projects Commit Mute Boiling Boiling Water Lack Of Support Geysers

Book:When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

“Just as the lame man at the pool of Bethesda needed someone stronger than himself to be healed (see John5:1-9), so we are dependent on the miracles of Christ's atonement if our souls are to be made whole from grief, sorrow, and sin”

Ifs Men Made Soul Whole Christ Sin Grief Needed Sorrow Miracle Stronger Dependent Pool Healed Atonement Lame Needed Someone

Author:Merrill J. Bateman

“The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.”

Self Age Spiritual Desire Sin Grief Imagine Ultimate Hunger Old Age Thirst Hunger And Thirst Grief And Death

Book:Incarnation in Hinduism and Christianity: the myth of the god-man

Source: Incarnation in Hinduism and Christianity: the myth of the god-man

“After grief for sin there should be joy for forgiveness.”

Should Joy Sin Grief Forgiveness

Book:A. W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures

Source: A. W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures

“The Bible portrays God as entering into covenants with people which, when broken, causes him grief and sorrow. The biblical prophet Hosea and God's using him as an illustration of how much Israel's idolatry costs God emotionally points to God's vulnerability. But also the incarnation of God in Jesus Christ who, even as God the Son, suffered for our sins, points to God's vulnerability.”

People Jesus Causes Christ Sin Grief Son Broken Sorrow Cost Jesus Christ Israel Vulnerability Prophet Biblical Entering Incarnation Covenant Idolatry Illustration

Author:Roger E. Olson

“I treat anger, grief and strife as a sin, so I let all that go and I am no longer living a sinful life. Today, I command my days by confessing that every minute will be blessed and perfect. My confession then has no other choice but to confer blessings upon my life.”

Today Choices Sin Perfect Grief Blessing Blessed Confession Being Blessed

Author:Kam Williams

“To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things supposed to be lost." So by innocence you mean not an absence of experience, but an absence of illusions." An absence of need for illusions," he said. "A love of and respect for what is right before your eyes.”

Needs Firsts Mean Said Eye Lost Loses Sin Grief Steps Illusion Absence Supposed To Be Innocence First Steps Subordination Lestat Vampire Lestat

Author:Anne Rice

“For my omniscience paid I toll In infinite remorse of soul. All sin was of my sinning, all Atoning mine, and mine the gall Of all regret. Mine was the weight Of every brooded wrong, the hate That stood behind each envious thrust, Mine every greed, mine every lust. And all the while for every grief, Each suffering, I craved relief With individual desire, – Craved all in vain! And felt fierce fire About a thousand people crawl; Perished with each, — then mourned for all!”

Source: Renascence and Other Poems

“I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the soul within. But, for the unquiet heart and brain A use measured language lie's The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotic's, numbing pain In words, like weeds, I'll wrap me o'er Like coarsest clothes against the cold But large grief which these enfold Is given in outline and no more.”

Feels Heart Soul Sometimes Use Pain Lying Language Given Sin Grief Brain Half Cold Exercise Clothes Dull Weed Mechanic Wraps Outlines Narcotics Numbing Heart And Brain

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man's greatest tragedy and God's heaviest grief.”

Men May Earth Sin Grief Waste Tragedy

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“I sometimes find it half a sin, To put to words the grief i feel, For words like nature,half reveal, and half conceal the soul within.”

Life Feels Soul Sometimes Sin Grief Half

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“What a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and griefs to bear. What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer.”

God Jesus Prayer Sin Grief Bears Privilege

Author:Joseph M. Scriven

“The self (Soul) is the constant-witness consciousness. Through all months, seasons and years, through all divisions of time, the past, present and future the consciousness remains one and self luminous. It neither rises nor sets. The ultimate self is free from sin, free from old age, free from death and grief, free from hunger and thirst, which desires nothing and imagines nothing.”

“It is good to divert our sorrow for other things to the root of all, which is sin. Let our grief run most in that channel, that as sin bred grief, so grief may consume sin.”

May Running Sin Grief Sorrow Roots

Book:Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)

Source: Complete Works of Richard Sibbes: (7 Volume Set)

“This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.”

Done Hate Sin Grief Worst I Hate Thee This Day Bereavement Sins Not

Author:Charles Spurgeon

“It is Satan's work to fill men's hearts with doubt. He leads them to look upon God as a stern judge. He tempts them to sin, and then to regard themselves as too vile to approach their heavenly Father or to excite His pity. The Lord understands all this. Jesus assures His disciples of God's sympathy for them in their needs and weaknesses. Not a sigh is breathed, not a pain felt, not a grief pierces the soul, but the throb vibrates to the Father's heart.”

Source: The Conflict of the Ages Story, Vol. 3. The Desire of Ages—Illustrated

“We may not commit a lesser Sin under pretence to avoid a greater, but we may, nay we ought to endure the greatest Pain and Grief rather than commit the least Sin.”

May Pain Sin Grief Greater Ought Endure Commit Pretence

Book:Letters Concerning the Love of God

Source: Letters Concerning the Love of God

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