All sin at bottom is a sin against God. “Against thee, thee only have I sinned” is the cry of a true penitent. How terrible is the sin against God!
—J. Gresham Machen
[Christianity] bases upon the Bible both its thinking and its life. Liberalism… is founded upon the shifting emotions of sinful men.
—J. Gresham Machen
If you die in your sins, there is not in the Bible one ray of hope to show that there will be opportunity to repent hereafter. Now is the accepted time of salvation.
—D. L. Moody
The death of sin is procured by, and discovered in, the death of Christ
—John Owen
We by sin have brought upon ourselves a miserable slavery and bondage; God has made provision for our liberty.
—Jonathan Edwards
“For, first, we were dead in trespasses and sins, but having believed in Christ we have been quickened by the Holy Ghost, and we are dead no longer.”
If Satan, therefore, shall come to any believer and say, ‘What about your sin?’
tell him Jesus died for it, and your sin is put away.
— Charles Spurgeon
We by sin have made ourselves poor, needy creatures; but God has provided for us gold tried in the fire.
—Jonathan Edwards
We are by our own sin against God plunged into all sorts of evil, and God has provided a remedy for us against every sort of evil, he has left us helpless in no calamity.
—Jonathan Edwards
“Our best performances are so stained with sin that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.”
— Charles Spurgeon
He both satisfied for sin and procured the promise. He procures all the love and kindness which are the fruits of the covenant, being himself the original promise thereof
—John Owen
But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin.
—Aldous Huxley
“This is a great evidence of the writing of the law upon the heart, when holiness becomes a pleasure, and sin becomes a sorrow.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Men say they don’t want to give up their freedom. There is no freedom until a man knows the Lord Jesus Christ. A man is slave to sin, to his passions and lusts until Christ snaps the fetters and sets him free.
—D. L. Moody
Christianity is founded upon the Bible. It bases upon the Bible both its thinking and its life. Liberalism on the other hand is founded upon the shifting emotions of sinful men.
—J. Gresham Machen
“Even though you fall into sin through the infirmity of your flesh, yet if it causes you intense agony and sorrow it is because God has written his law in your heart.”
– Charles Spurgeon
I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him.
I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.
—Carl Jung
I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him.
I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.
—Carl Jung
“The law is fully written on the heart when a man takes pleasure in holiness, and feels a deep pain whenever sin approaches him.”
– Charles Spurgeon
‘Why, this is mine,’ says Christ; ‘this agreement I made with my Father, that I should come, and take thy sins, and bear them away: they were my lot. Give me thy *burden*, give me all thy *sins*..’
—John Owen
If we search within ourselves, we can almost always find the very sin we condemn someone else for. If we don’t find precisely that sin, all we have to do is search and we’ll find something worse.
—Leo Tolstoy
“You consider sin a mere trifle, scarcely worth thinking about;
but God regards it as an evil and an accursed thing.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“When the Holy One smites his own Son, his wrath against sin is evident to all.”
– Charles Spurgeon
People aren’t punished for their sins, they’re punished by their sins.
—Leo Tolstoy
“If God takes away the guilt of sin, he is sure at the same time to remove the power of sin.”
– Charles Spurgeon
“This great blessing of pardoned sin is always connected with the renewal of the heart. It is not given because of the change of heart, but it is always given with the change of heart.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Do not talk about the love of God until you have realized the enormity of sin and of what you have done against God.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
The world is as it is today because sin being what it is, and God being what and who he is, it will inevitably be punished.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Whether you like it or not, whether you understand it or not, sin is what you are guilty of in the sight of this holy God.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Man disobeying, Disloyal breaks his fealty, and sins Against the high supremacy of heaven, Affecting Godhead, and so losing all.
—John Milton