“I've always been interested in definitions, because in the Bible, the Ten Commandments are there but there's no real clear definition of what sin is, in a fundamental sense - how we can use the words to evaluate our lives as we go along: Am I doing something that is ethically good? Am I being worthwhile in my life at this moment?” RealMomentsUseSinClearOur LivesTenFundamentalsDefinitionsWorthwhileCommandmentsEvaluateTen Commandments Author:Whitley Strieber
“Being Christian is not just obeying orders but means being in Christ, thinking like him, acting like him, loving like him; it means letting him take possession of our life and change it, transform it, and free it from the darkness of evil and sin. ... Let us show the joy of being children of God, the freedom that living in Christ gives us which is true freedom, the freedom that saves us from the slavery of evil, of sin and of death!” ThinkingGivingMeanChildrenShowsChristianJoyOrderEvilChristSinActingDarknessOur LivesSlaveryPossessionChild Of GodObeyingTrue FreedomLife And Change Author:Pope Francis
“God loves us despite our shortcomings and sins, and his love gives meaning to our lives and to the life of the world.” WorldGivingSinOur LivesDespiteGod LoveHis LoveShortcomingsGod Loves Us Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“Churchgoers all across the nation say the Holy Spirit has entered them. They claim that God has given them a supernatural ability to follow Christ, put their sin to death, and serve the church. Christians talk about being born again say that they they were dead but now have come to life. We have become hardened to those words, but they are powerful words that have significant meaning. Yet when those outside the church see no difference in our lives, they begin to question our integrity, out sanity, or even worse, our God. And can you blame them?” ChristianSpiritGivenNationsChristBornDifferencesChurchSinAbilityPowerfulOur LivesIntegrityHolyClaimsBlameSignificantHoly SpiritSanityBorn AgainHardenedPowerful Words Author:Francis Chan
“If we believe that Jesus of Nazareth is the only begotten Son of God and that He came into this world and went to the cross of Calvary and died for our sins and rose again in order to justify us and to give us life anew and prepare us for heaven-if you really believe that, there is only one inevitable deduction, namely that He is entitled to the whole of our lives, without any limit whatsoever.” IfsWorldGivingBelieveWholeOrderJesusHeavenSinOur LivesThis WorldSonLimitsCrossesDiedRoseInevitableJustifyEntitledDeductionsCalvaryNazareth Author:Martyn
“A lost sheep is, for all practical purposes a dead sheep. It is the admission that we are dead in our sins---that we have no power of ourselves either to save ourselves or to convince anyone else that we are worth saving. It is the recognition that our whole life is out of our hands and that if we ever live again, our life will be entirely the gift of some gracious shepherd. God finds us the desert of death (not in the garden of improvement) and in the power of Jesus' resurrection, he puts us on his shoulders rejoicing and brings us home.” IfsWholeHomeHandsLife IsPurposeJesusLostSinOur LivesGardenWhole LifeImprovementPracticalsShouldersSavingRecognitionDesertConvinceRejoiceResurrectionSheepGraciousShepherdsAdmissionJesus Resurrection Author:Robert Farrar Capon
“We never really know what we want until after we get it. If after we get it, it makes life more miserable, we know that isn't what we wanted. If it makes our life wonderful, we know this is a strategy which will meet out need. That's why Paul Tillich, the theologian says we need to sin courageously. You ask for what you want, hoping to meet your needs. If you get it and it makes life worse, you learn that this isn't what I want.” IfsKnowsWantNeedsWantedAsksSinOur LivesWonderfulCommunicationStrategyWhat You WantMiserableTheologianWant UNonviolent Communication Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg
“Hereafter we all have to be redeemed. The world is pulling with a thousand strings. We sin because of indifference and negligence and heap new guilt on the old original one. Our life is a chain of sin and expiation controlled by a destiny that can not be understood.” WorldLife IsSinDestinyOur LivesThousandUnderstoodOriginalsGuiltChainsIndifferenceStringsControlledPullingCan NotHereafterRedeemedNegligence Author:Joseph Goebbels
“Engaging the city around us and ministering to its needs reveal to us the remaining bastions of sin in our lives, the areas we refuse to surrender to God.” NeedsSinCitiesOur LivesAreasRefuseSurrenderEngagingSurrender To God Author:Matt Chandler
“The chief end of our life is to live in communion with God. To this end the Son of God became incarnate, in order to return us to this divine communion, which was lost by the fall into sin. Through Jesus Christ, the Son of God, we enter into communion with the Father and thus attain our purpose.” InspirationalEndsChristianLife IsPurposeOrderFallFatherJesusLostChristReligiousSinOur LivesDivineSonReturnJesus ChristChiefsOrthodoxCommunionCommunion With God Author:Theophan the Recluse
“God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be.” KnowsWorldSinKnow HowOur LivesEffectsThis WorldPainfulGods WillLingeringPainful Life Author:Joshua Harris
“So long as idleness is quite shut out from our lives, all the sins of wantonness, softness, and effeminacy are prevented; and there is but little room for temptation.” LittlesLongSinRoomsOur LivesTemptationIdlenessSoftness Book:The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: The rule and exercises of holy living and dying Source: The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: The rule and exercises of holy living and dying
“It is not enough simply to try to resist evil or empty our lives of sin. We must also fill our lives with righteousness” TryingEnoughEvilSinOur LivesEmptyRighteousness Author:Ezra Taft Benson
“God did not create the strife between races, nor did He intend for it to be that way. Strife between races and ethnic groups comes from sin-and sin resides in the human heart. The Bible says, “What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?” (James 4:1). When one group or one race claims it is superior to another, pride has taken control-and pride is a sin.Instead, God wants us to learn to accept each other and love each other-and this becomes possible, as we turn our lives over to Christ and allow Him to change us from within.” WayWantHumansHeartDesireTurnsFightingCausesChristSinRaceAcceptingTakenOur LivesGroupsPrideBattleAnd LoveClaimsSuperiorsWithin YouHuman HeartStrifeWant UQuarrelsLove Each OtherEthnicityPeace And LoveChristian LoveBible VerseEthnic Groups Author:Billy Graham
“Sometimes when we are afraid to confess an area of brokenness or sin in our lives, we know the changes we need to make.” KnowsNeedsSometimesSinOur LivesAreasBrokenness Author:Anne Marie Miller
“To live our lives and miss that great purpose we were designed to accomplish is truly a sin. It is inconceivable that we could be bored in a world with so much wrong to tackle, so much ignorance to reach and so much misery we could alleviate” WorldPurposeSinOur LivesMissingIgnoranceMiseryAccomplishBoredAlleviate Author:William Wilberforce