2,021 Quotes About Sin

To me, many of what seemed to be Bible contradictions only pointed to the grace of Christ. It is not so much a rule book on how to be holy as it is a prophecy of the One who can make you holy. In this, I see God as the least bigoted of all in existence: While men always, in their hearts, delight in vengeance for being wronged, God is the only Being who wants to free you from the penalty of His own laws.

If you want it your own way, God will let you have it. Hell is the enjoyment of your own way forever.

In the case of such “besetting” evil thoughts, our natural reaction is often suppression: to push the offending idea back down, deep into our subconscious, in order to rid ourselves of it quickly. But that never works.The most effective way to truly rid our mind of a suppressed thought is to face it squarely and reject it.

One little sinful act can become the bane of your life. It changes your identity for ever.

The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so much by the limits of finitude as by sin and ignorance. But the more we raise ourselves in the scale of being, the more will our ideas about God and the world correspond to reality.

To deny a person his peace is to approve your sin

There’s something vulnerable about the human condition, where people can transmute into something so astonishingly altered that whatever is left is wholly unrecognizable.

Masturbating is no more sinful than praying or meditating.

Masturbation and meditation both promote physical and mental wellbeing.