Inspirational Quotes on Sin

“No man living in any known sin is ever comforted of God. The Holy Ghost never yet spake one word of all His abounding consolations to any man so long as he lived in any actual sin, or in any neglect of known duty.”

“If I can easily discuss the shortcomings and the sins of any; if I can speak in a casual way even of a child's misdoings, then I know nothing of Calvary love.”

“One great power of sin is that it blinds men so that they do not recognize its true character.”

“The empyrean heaven saved not the angels who in that heaven committed sin. The terrestrial Paradise saved not Adam, who in that paradise committed sin. And dost thou presume to hope in the Church for impunity of those evils which in the Church you perpetrate?”

“Temptation usually comes in through a door that has deliberately been left open.”

“Sin is a violation of moral light, a refusal to conform to what is known and perceived.”

“We are wearied with our sins, and have no satisfaction in them; we go to bed tonight weary of our sinful labors, and we will rise freshly tomorrow to the same sinful labors again.”

“When you entertain any temptation to sin, you do as wisely as he who takes those into his house whom he knows are come on purpose to spoil him of what he esteems most precious.”

“No man taketh away sins (which the law, though holy, just and good, could not take away), but He in whom there is no sin.”

“Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.”

“Nothing so clearly discovers a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.”

“The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.”

“I inquired what iniquity was, and found it to be no substance, but the perversion of the will, turned aside from Thee, O God, the Supreme, towards these lower things.”

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

“Sin comes when we take a perfectly natural desire or longing or ambition and try desperately to fulfill it without God. Not only is it sin, it is a perverse distortion of the image of the Creator in us. All these good things, and all our security, are rightly found only and completely in Him.”

“The one is addressed generally to all intelligent creatures, and is therefore accessible to all men; the other is addressed to a special class of sinners, to whom God would make known His salvation. The one has in view to meet and supply the natural need of creatures for knowledge of their God; the other to rescue broken and deformed sinners from their sin and its consequences.”

“When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.”

“I'm against sin. I'll kick it as long as I've got a foot, and I'll fight it as long as I've got a fist. I'll butt it as long as I've got a head. I'll bite it as long as I've got a tooth. And when I'm old and fistless and footless and toothless, I'll gum it till I go home to Glory and it goes home to perdition!”

“Look into the preaching Jesus did and you will find it was aimed straight at the big sinners on the front seats.”

“There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.”