Confession is a difficult Discipline for us because we all too often view the believing community as a fellowship of saints before we see it as a fellowship of sinners. We feel that everyone else has advanced so far into holiness that we are isolated...
Willmore: There is no sinner like a young saint.
The living sinners on deadly ground.
An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.
No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.
It wasn't a potential atonement actuated by the sinner, it was an actual atonement initiated by the savior.
When sinners judge, God takes the stand.
The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.
The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.
The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.
Maybe demons are defined as anything other than God that tries to tell us who we are. And maybe, just moments after Jesus' baptism, when the devil says to him, "If you are the Son of God…" he does so because he knows that Jesus is vulnerable to tem...
From my father I heard only these words: "But you were born for such a day as this." He closed the book and my mother joined him in embracing me. They prayed over me and they gave me a blessing. And some blessings, like the one my conservative Christ...
May the judgment of the dead find you justified.
If pregnant girls were sinner, what were liars called?
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
I the chief of sinners am, but Jesus died for me.
Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you.
