The chaplain had sinned, and it was good. Common sense told him that telling lies and defecting from duty were sins. On the other hand, everyone knew that sin was evil and that no good could come from evil. But he did feel good; he felt positively ma...
Not to be daily employing the Spirit and new nature for the mortifying of sin is to neglect that excellent succor which God has given us against our greatest enemy. If we neglect to make use of what we have received, God may justly hold his hand from...
God wants us to worry about our sins we sin; the devil wants us to worry we sin. God wants us to feel free after we repent (for we really are free then); the devil is a deceiver). The devil tempts us to cavalier pride before we sin and worrisome desp...
But we can never change enough to impress God. And here's the reason: trying to impress God, others, or ourselves puts us at the center of our change project. It makes change all about my looking good. It is done for my glory. And that's pretty much ...
Every man on earth is sick with the fever of sin, with the blindness of sin and is overcome with its fury. As sins consist mostly of malice and pride, it is necessary to treat everyone who suffers from the malady of sin with kindness and love. This i...
God is not without sins: He created the world.
Do not allow sins to get beyond creeping.
Commit a sin twice and it will not seem a crime.
When the Tsar sins the Empire must do penance.
Take away the motive, and the sin is taken away.
Y si queriendo alzarte nada has alcanzado Déjate caer sin parar tu caída sin miedo al fondo de la sombra Sin miedo al enigma de ti mismo Acaso encuentres una luz sin noche Perdida en las grietas de los precipicios Cae Cae eternamente Cae al fondo d...
Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.
It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin.
Therefore, sins of sex are punished in this life to a greater degree than some other sins.
The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.
I often think of death. True. Suicide is a reasonable option. True. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I stare at the question. My sins are unpardonable. I leave it blank.
If my sinfulness appears to me in any way smaller or less detestable in comparison with the sins of others, I am still not recognizing my sinfulness at all.
Fagan hated what his father was, but he still loved him. I reckon that's the way God is. Loving us enough to send Jesus but hating the way we live. Hating the sin, not the sinner.
A precept or command is a general teaching of God, obligating every man under pain of mortal sin - namely, in cases in which he has fallen away from the command. Hence, the saints who for a period of their life lived hypocritically sinned mortally fo...
The best part of repentance is a little sinning.
