sin

While injustice is the worst of sins, despair is the most dangerous; because when you are in despair you care neither about yourself nor about others.

—Thomas Aquinas

“Holy men would prefer life-long sickness to willful sin.”

Charles Spurgeon

“Oh! if there be a harlot here, or a man who has fallen into all sorts of gross sin, Christ can and will deliver you if you will only come and repose your heart’s trust in him.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“He that believes in Christ shall be delivered from sin, he shall trample it under his feet; he may have a life-long battle with it, nay, I am sure he will have that, else Christ would never have taught his disciples to pray, Lead us not into temptation.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“It is that, by faith in Christ, the ruling power of sin is immediately broken, and that every sin, of every kind, may be overcome by faith in the blood of Jesus Christ.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“[…]there is pardon for the greatest guilt through faith in Jesus Christ, — that his precious blood, shed on Calvary’s cross, is able to cleanse from all sin of every kind, and that as many as believe in him are saved.”

– Charles Spurgeon

“If Christ was punished for my sins, I can never be punished for them.”

— Charles Spurgeon

And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.

—Søren Kierkegaard

Sanctification notes an holy dedication of heart and life to God: our becoming the temples of the living, God, separate from all profane sinful practices, to the Lord’s only use and service.

—John Flavel

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

—Thomas Jefferson

It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.

—Thomas Aquinas

“In the empty tomb of Christ, we see sin forever put away and death destroyed.”

— Charles Spurgeon

“Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.”

— Charles Spurgeon

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

—Charles Darwin

When Christ died, the ransom was prepared, the sum laid down; but yet the elect continue still in sin and misery, until, by effectual calling it be actually applied to their persons, and then they are made free, reconciled by Christ’s death, by whom we have now rec’d atonement.

—John Flavel

By the grace of God, know thyself. Know and feel that thou wast shapen in wickedness, and in sin did thy mother conceive thee; and that thou thyself hast been heaping sin upon sin, ever since thou couldst discern good from evil.

—John Wesley

It’s through the little sins that Satan gains an entrance into our lives.

—J. Gresham Machen

There’s no salvation for a person who’s certain of his righteousness. If someone points out his sins he only gets angry and commits a new one.

—Leo Tolstoy

Be deeply sensible of your own weaknesses, follies, and imperfections; as well as of the sin remaining in your heart, and cleaving to all your words and actions. And let this spirit appear in all you speak or do: Be clothed with humility.

—John Wesley

Art thou unable to atone for the least of thy sins? He is the propitiation for all thy sins. Now believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and all thy sins are blotted out!

—John Wesley

Art thou totally unclean in soul and body? Here is the fountain for sin and uncleanness! Arise, and wash away thy sins! Stagger no more at the promise through unbelief! Give glory to God! Dare to believe!

—John Wesley

Allowing that the whole creation now groaneth together under the sin of man, our comfort is, it will not always groan: God will arise and maintain His own cause; and the whole creation shall then be delivered both from moral and natural corruption.

—John Wesley

Prevenient grace may be simple conviction or a strange longing which nothing can satisfy or powerful aspiration after eternal values or feeling of disgust for sin & desire to be delivered from its repulsive coils. These strange workings within are the stirrings of the Holy Spirit

—A. W. Tozer

O my soul exceedingly longs for that blessed state of perfect deliverance from all sin!

—David Brainerd

Oh, methinks, if he would punish me for my sins, it would not wound my heart so deep to offend him: but though I sin continually, yet he continually repeats his kindness to me! Oh, methinks I could bear any sufferings; but how can I bear to grieve and dishonour this blessed God!

—David Brainerd

Lapsed man is not only deep in misery, but grossly ignorant, both that he is so, and how to recover himself from it: Sin has left him at once senseless of his state, and at a perfect loss about the true remedy.

—John Flavel

O for a prospect of (our) final deliverance from sin, never to be entangled, defiled, or troubled with it anymore.

—John Flavel

Some who may be drawn to commit sin yet are none of the servants of sin, because they do heartily beg the assistance of grace to keep them from sin: Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins, says the psalmist, let them not have dominion over me (Ps. 19:13).

—John Flavel

Outward sins are sins majoris infamiae, of greatest scandal; but heart sins are oftentimes majoris reatus, sins of greater guilt.

—John Flavel

Merely feeling troubled for your sin does not argue for sincerity of repentance.

—John Flavel