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It's not a problem that we're sinners; it's a problem that we aren't ashamed of our sin and don't seek forgiveness.
The faith in Christ that saves us from our sins involves an internal transformation that has external implications.
Those who are most conscious of forgiveness are invariably those who have been most acutely convicted of their sin.
The center of our being is a point of nothingness which is untouched by sin and by illusion, a point of pure truth.
Christians aren't people who never sin or always do the right thing. We're people who live in continual repentance.
I am on fire within. There comes no murmur of reply. What is it that will take away my sin, And save me lest I die?
I have committed many sins in my life. But stealing money from the government, from the people, is not one of them.
The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.
If it was a sin for you to choose me . . . then I would go to the Devil himself and bless him for tempting ye to it.
Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
I waive the quantum o' the sin, The hazard of concealing; But, och! it hardens a' within, And petrifies the feeling!
All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.
If there is one thing I can't stand, it is stupidity. I always say that stupidity is the Sin against the Holy Ghost.
Repentance is the sweet fruit that comes from faith in the Savior and involves turning toward God and away from sin.
Because God's justice is inexorable, it is hard to obtain forgiveness for sins committed with complete deliberation.
True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.
Your conscience is no defense against you sins; however, it can unfortunately deny you the pleasure of enjoying them.
Surely it is a sin to reject the few gifts we are given. Be happy in the flash of time granted to us or hurt forever.
There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it.
I groan daily under a body of sin and corruption. Oh for the time when I shall drop this flesh, and be free from sin!
It is better to live poorly upon the fruits of God's goodness than live plentifully upon the products of our own sin.
No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul.
This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.
There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
When Jesus died on the cross and cried out, 'It is finished!' He not only died for our sins, but for our diseases too.
In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.
Adam wasn't lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin.
When your sin is exposed, you will run toward confession and forgiveness or self-righteousness and self-justification.
The vital Christian arouses opposition because he is a standing rebuke to the selfishness and sin of those around him.
He casts our sins behind His back, He blots them out; He says that though they be sought for, they shall not be found.
Certain new theologians dispute original sin, which is the only part of Christian theology which can really be proved.
Your state is not at all to be measured by the opposition that sin makes to you, but by the opposition you make to it.
Before the sin, Satan assures us that it is of no consequence; after the sin, he persuades us that it is unforgivable.
The best thing that could ever happen to any one of us is that all our sins would be broadcast on the 5 o' clock news.
The Anglo-Saxon conscience does not prevent the Anglo-Saxon from sinning, it merely prevents him from enjoying his sin.
Mine. You're mine, Sin. No one else will ever touch you, do you understand? You belong to me. You'll bond with me. ~Con
Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.
I am not sure just what the unpardonable sin is, but I believe it is a disposition to evade the payment of small bills.
Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn't have to mean public confessions.
Sometimes when we are afraid to confess an area of brokenness or sin in our lives, we know the changes we need to make.
HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.
It is not enough simply to try to resist evil or empty our lives of sin. We must also fill our lives with righteousness
If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.
I can't pretend that I did one really awful thing - I took a bite out of the apple but now I'm never going to sin again.
What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus; What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
That which makes you miserable is the only sin. That which takes you away from yourself is the only thing to be avoided.
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well.
I read my Bible and I pray and all of that. I really do. But at the same time, I don't think being gay is a sin. Period.
Believing that you are unworthy of love and belonging or that who you are authentically is a sin or is wrong, is deadly.
Read the genealogy of Jesus, and you have to see how the four women in that genealogy God used their sins for His glory.