Sin Quotes

In all my writings my aim has been to spare sinners and assail sin.

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

With the Fall all became abnormal. It is not just that the individual is separated from God by his true moral guilt, but each of us is not what God made us to be. Beyond each of us as individuals, human relationships are not what God meant them to be. And beyond that, nature is […]

Religion would not have many enemies, if it were not an enemy to their vices.

The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.

No man is free who is a slave to the flesh.

I am tempted to think that I am now an established Christian, – that I have overcome this or that lust so long, – that I have got into the habit of the opposite grace, – so that there is no fear; I may venture very near the temptation – nearer than other men. This […]

When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet, and its waters are for the most part deep when they are still, so ought our contrivances against it to be vigorous at all times and in all conditions, even […]

We are all sinful. Therefore whatever we blame in another we shall find in our own bosoms.

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.