Best Sins Not Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Jesus died for our sins, not our sexuality.”

“Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.”

May Faces Sin Prove Your Face Fear Not Sins Not

Author:Moses

“God's mercy is a holy mercy, which knows how to pardon sin, not to protect it; it is a sanctuary for the penitent, not for the presumptuous.”

Knows Sin Know How Holy Protect Mercy Pardon Sanctuary Presumptuous Sins Not

Book:Israel's prayer in time of trouble: with God's gracious answer; an explication of the fourteenth chapter of Hosea, in seven sermons, preached upon days of solemn humiliation

Source: Israel's prayer in time of trouble: with God's gracious answer; an explication of the fourteenth chapter of Hosea, in seven sermons, preached upon days of solemn humiliation

“Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth.”

Men Earth Life Is Sin Pure Sight Alas Infant Infancy Sins Not

Book:The Confessions of Saint Augustine

Source: The Confessions of Saint Augustine

“That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.”

Mind Eye Dark Sin Knowledge Gone Knowing Birth Apples Adam Self Knowledge Adam And Eve Sins Not

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason.”

Reason Born Sin Atheism Ten Conscience Nine Womb Disbelief Sins Not

Book:Remade for Happiness: Achieving Life's Purpose through Spiritual Transformation

Source: Remade for Happiness: Achieving Life's Purpose through Spiritual Transformation

“He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.”

Sin Sinner Sins Not

Author:Seneca the Younger

“To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.”

Sin Philosophical Forsake Forsaken Sins Not

Author:Saint Augustine

“To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'”

Christian Sin Sun Anger Bravery Angry Wrath Oracles Sins Not

Book:Lord Bacon's Essays: With a Sketch of His Life and Character, Reviews of His Philosophical Writings, Critical Estimates of His Essays, Analysis, Notes, and Queries for Students, and Select Portions of the ʻAnnotationsʼ of Archbishop Whately

Source: Lord Bacon's Essays: With a Sketch of His Life and Character, Reviews of His Philosophical Writings, Critical Estimates of His Essays, Analysis, Notes, and Queries for Students, and Select Portions of the ʻAnnotationsʼ of Archbishop Whately

“Feeble verses are those which sin not against rules, but against genius.”

Sin Genius Verses Sins Not

Author:Voltaire

“Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.”

Sin Ashamed Repent Sins Not

Author:Saint John Chrysostom

“Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.”

Mind Christ Sin Sins Not

Book:Credo

Source: Credo

“We are punished by our sins, not for them.”

Religion Sin Feel Good Sins Not

Book:Health & Wealth

Source: Health & Wealth

“What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.”

Sin Terrible Sins Not

Author:Alphonsus Liguori

“I have 236 movies on my queue and I feel like I should always be watching movies. Like if I wake up in the middle of the night and don't fall directly back to sleep, I'm like, 'I've been up for an hour and a half I could have watched 'Toy Story 3' by now.' In this economy it is a sin not to be watching movies when you have Netflix.”

Ifs Feels Should Stories Night Fall Hours Sleep Sin Half Economy Middle Wake Up Toys Middle Of The Night Netflix Queues Sins Not Toy Story 3

Author:Gary Gulman

“By the supernatural miracle of God's grace I stand justified, not because I am sorry for my sin, not because I have repented, but because of what Jesus has done.”

Done Jesus Sin Grace Miracle Sorry Justified God's Grace I Am Sorry Am Sorry Sins Not Miracles Of God

Book:My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

“It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.”

Sin Capable Sins Not

Author:Jose Marti

“The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.”

Christian Sin Inspiring Sins Not

Author:Dwight L. Moody

“He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.”

Would Be Sin Anger Angry Sins Not

Author:John Ruskin

“We...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.”

Want Enough Evil Sin Good Enough Sins Not

Author:Scott Hahn

“All right, kids. We’re going to a party where they don’t like us very much. Everyone know what they’re doing? (Sin) Not a clue, but I think certain death and dismemberment is in my forecast, followed by a light rain of guys and flayed skin. (Kish)”

Thinking Knows Light Kids Guy Certain Sin Party Rain Skins Clue Forecasts Sins Not Certain Death

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“I testify that no one of us is less treasured or cherished of God than another. I testify that He loves each of us—insecurities, anxieties, self-image, and all. He doesn’t measure our talents or our looks; He doesn’t measure our professions or our possessions. He cheers on every runner, calling out that the race is against sin, not against each other.”

Looks Self Sin Race Talent Calling Anxiety Possession Profession Insecurity Cheer Runners Treasured Sins Not

Author:Jeffrey R. Holland

“Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.”

Has Beens Sin Sadness Possibility Despair Forgiving Misery Refuse Forgiven Unforgivable Sins Not Unforgivable Sin

Author:Frederick Buechner

“Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification.”

Spiritual Lying Christ Sin Crosses Hatred Bottom Mortification Sins Not

Book:Mortification of Sin

Source: Mortification of Sin

“It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house of the harlot, but to fly from all appearance of evil (Prov. 5:8, I Thess. 5:22). The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance; he that will be so bold as to attempt to dance upon the brink of the pit, may find by woeful experience that it is a righteous thing with God that he should fall into the pit.”

Should May Religion Fall Courses Evil House Sin Atheism Distance Appearance Righteous Pits Wisest Harlots Sins Not

Author:Thomas Brooks

“The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's sorrow over sin, but for God's wrath on sin.”

Christ Sin Christianity Blood Sorrow Wrath Scourge Sins Not

Author:Peter Forsyth

“I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.”

Love Believe May Matter Lying I Believe Sin Love Is Illusion Regard Senses Mortals Chastity Mortal Sin Sins Not

Author:George Sand

“Dying is not a sin. Not living is.”

Death Sin Dying Sins Not

Author:Jack Lemmon

“Alone thou goest forth, O Lord, in sacrifice to die; is this thy sorrow naught to us who pass unheeding by? Our sins, not thine, thou bearest, Lord; make us thy sorrow feel, till through our pity and our shame love answers love's appeal. This is earth's darkest hour, but thou dost light and life restore; then let all praise be given thee who livest evermore. Grant us with thee to suffer pain that, as we share this hour, thy cross may bring us to thy joy and resurrection power.”

“Keep God's covenant in your trials; hold you by His blessed word, and sin not; flee anger, wrath, grudging, envying, fretting; forgive a hundred pence to your fellow-servant, because your Lord hath forgiven you ten thousand talents: for, I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.”

Source: Joshua redivivus: or, three hundred and fifty two religious letters ... To which is added, the Author's testimony to the covenanted work of reformation, between 1638 and 1649 ... As also, a large preface and postscript ... by the Rev. Mr. McWard. The tenth edition

“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

“And all of a sudden, all of my sins came before me. Everything I had ever done wrong that I had forgotten about years ago came into my mind. And I prayed, Lord, forgive me, may the blood of Jesus Christ cleanse me from all of my sins... not because of my good works or because of all the things I have tried to do, but because the Lord had forgiven me.”