God made sense to me, but the figure of Jesus and the centrality of sin and Jesus dying to save me from my sins didn’t work for me. I liked a lot of my sins. I didn’t want to be saved from my sins. I’ll take responsibility for my sins. I don’t want anybody taking […]
Sin Quotes
Then the Lord let me see why there was none upon the earth that could speak to my condition, namely, that I might give Him all the glory. For all are concluded under sin, and shut up in unbelief, as I had been; that Jesus Christ might have the pre-eminence who enlightens, and gives grace, […]
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits them all.
Jesus told people that their sins were forgiven… This makes sense only if He really was the God whose laws are broken and whose love is wounded in every sin… I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: “I’m ready to accept Jesus as a […]
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
Manlike it is to fall into sin, Fiend-like is it to dwell therein, Christlike it is for sin to grieve, Godlike it is all sin to leave.
Modern man’s loss of a sense of being sinful doesn’t spring from a feeling that he is inherently good. Rather, it springs from his feeling of being inherently ineffectual.
Tolerably early in life I discovered that one of the unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog.
The world loves a spice of wickedness.
