Sin is not only manifested in certain acts that are forbidden by divine command. Sin also appears in attitudes and dispositions and feelings. Lust and hate are sins as well as adultery and murder. And, in the traditional Christian view, despair and chronic boredom – unaccompanied by any vicious act – are serious sins. They […]
Sin Quotes
Babble about ‘The wages of sin’ serves to cover up ‘the sin of wages’. We want rights, not rites – sex, not sects. Only Eros and Eris belong in our pantheon. Surely the Nazarene necrophile has had his revenge by now. Remember, pain is just God’s way of hurting you.
A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.
It is one thing to have sin alarmed only by convictions, and another to have it crucified by converting grace. Many, because they have been troubled in conscience for their sins, think well of their case, miserably mistaking conviction for conversion.
The heart of man is revealed in temptation. Man knows his sin, which without temptation he could never have known; for in temptation man knows on what he has set his heart. The coming to light of sin is the work of the accuser, who thereby thinks to have won the victory. But it is […]
All I ask of Thee, Lord; is to be a drinker and a fornicator; an unbeliever and a sodomite; and then to die.
O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you “little lower than the angels”; sin has made you little better than the devils.
Your unforgivable sins do not allow you to see my splendor.
Sin we have explain’d away; Unluckily, the sinners stay.
Only he who flings himself upward when the pull comes to drag him down, can hope to break the force of temptation. Temptation may be an invitation to hell, but much more is it an opportunity to reach heaven. At the moment of temptation, sin and righteousness are both very near the Christian; but, of […]
