God may not accept a person to forgive him his sins, without an atonement, else he must give free license to sin both in angels and men, and then sin were no sin, and our God were no God.
John Wycliffe
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JOHN WYCLIFFE Once the sin against God was the greatest sin; but God died, and these sinners died with him. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not ... JOYCE MEYER The Christian does not avoid sin to achieve salvation, but rather salvation brings him to a desire n... CRISS JAMI For God is not against us because of our sin. He is with us; against our sin. UNKNOWN Beginning a short series on sin: Sin is nothing else than that the creature willeth otherwise than... JOHN TILLOTSON The absurd is sin without God. ALBERT CAMUS grace is not license to commit a sin but it is a responsibility that we ought to God. DARWIN ARAMAN ERGINA Why is it that it is often easier for us to confess our sins to God than to a brother? God is holy a... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER It means the God who worries about our sins is not only God the judge, but also God the caretaker. H... LAUREN F. WINNER Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin. JOSEPH PRINCE People sin, Lena. People in love sin a lot. God invented sex. He knows how it works JOSHILYN JACKSON God had one Son without sin, but not a single child without the rod CHARLES H. SPURGEON No man will say, "There is no God" 'till he is so hardened in sin that it has become his intere... MATTHEW HENRY God may forgive sins, he said, but awkwardness has no forgiveness in heaven or earth RALPH WALDO EMERSON And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the LORD... BIBLE As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite ha... JERRY BRIDGES Feast of Monica, Mother of Augustine of Hippo, 387 Augustine shows clearly the religious characte... PAUL TILLICH There must be a constant and increasing appreciation that though sin still remains it does not have ... JOHN MURRAY For he addeth rebellion unto his sin, he clappeth his hands among us, and multiplieth his words agai... BIBLE He who loveth God with all his heart feareth not death, nor punishment, nor judgment, nor hell, beca... THOMAS À KEMPIS Jesus Christ could die instead of man because He was sinless. As a man without sin, He was not under... HENRY HON The wrd of God will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Word of God. UNKNOWN Every sin is an act of cosmic treason, a futile attempt to dethrone God in His sovereign authority. R.C. SPROUL The self-centered regret which a man feels when his sin has found him out -- the wish, compounded of... JAMES DENNEY God is the only being who is good, and the standards are set by Him. Because God hates sin, He has t... FRANCIS CHAN God did create a world without sin. We just screwed it up. WESLEY MILLER We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as th... R.C. SPROUL Sure I got sins. Ever'body got sins. A sin is somepin you ain't sure about. Them people that's sure ... JOHN STEINBECK O miserable man, what a deformed monster has sin made you! God made you "little lower than the ange... JOSEPH ALLEINE Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. Offer hospitality t... BIBLE If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin H... NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and ... BIBLE God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't ALFRED KORZYBSKI You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a stan... STEPHEN CRANE Humanity is the sin of God THEODORE PARKER God needs loving, accepting, and compassionate people—not accepting of sin, but accepting God’s ... TERESA SCHULTZ Those small moments of pleasure men get from sin, from defying God, are perhaps grace - His final gi... CRISS JAMI For right is right, since God is God and right the day must win. To doubt would be disloyalty, to fa... FREDERICK W. FABER For right is right, since God is God,
And right the day must win;
To doubt would be disloyalty... REV. FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Feast of Juliana of Norwich, Mystic, Teacher, c.1417 If afore us were laid together all the pain... JULIANA OF NORWICH God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. SAINT AUGUSTINE God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Our assurance is anchored in the love and grace of God expressed in the glorious exchange: our sin f... TULLIAN TCHIVIDJIAN He [Christ] died for me. He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my s... MARTIN LUTHER Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin. PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not k... ANNIE DILLARD Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not k... ANNIE DILLARD It is Satan's constant effort to misrepresent the character of God, the nature of sin, and the real ... ELLEN G. WHITE If there was no free will in men, then there is no sins. When sins happened, it was 'free will' that... TOBA BETA No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatn... ARCHIBALD ALEXANDER It is a grievous sin in the sight of God for any man to presume to baptize, unless God has authorize... ORSON PRATT Some have objected that if Jesus did not sin, then he was not truly human, for all humans sin. But t... WAYNE A. GRUDEM Not to be daily employing the Spirit and new nature for the mortifying of sin is to neglect that exc... JOHN OWEN Harboring bitterness against people is actually confessing their sin to myself, over and over again.... PAUL DAVID TRIPP Every person who confesses that Christ Jesus is Lord, repents of their sin and gives their heart to ... JOYCE MEYER God forgives the sin of gluttony. PROVERB Hate sin. Love righteousness of God. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Humanity is the sin of God. THEODORE PARKER I asked God if it was a sin and He didn't say anything. ERNESTINE ROSE To mortify sin we must focus on its true nature. So often we are troubled with a persistent sin only... JERRY BRIDGES If we say that we have no sin, We deceive ourselves, and there's no truth in us. Why then... CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE The Israelites' slavery in Egypt is the equivalent of our slavery to sin. God sent Moses to deli... JOYCE MEYER The interior journey of the soul from the wilds of sin into the enjoyed presence of God is beautiful... A. W. TOZER I shouldn’t complain about God’s mercy to others while thanking Him for His mercy to me. I shoul... TERESA SCHULTZ My only sin in this world has been that I have been truthful and honest and God has blessed me for t... AMIT ABRAHAM Feast of Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, Scholar, 899 Commemoration of Cedd, Founding Ab... JOHN TILLOTSON Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 [He said:] That all possible kinds of mortification, if they ... BROTHER LAWRENCE A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that h... CRISS JAMI Feast of Simon & Jude, Apostles The heart of man is revealed in temptation. Man knows his sin, wh... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin. DAVID HARE There is only one way of salvation. Men are sinful rebels against God, by nature, enemies of holines... JAMES R. WHITE The Gospel is sheer good tidings, not demand but promise, not duty but gift. But in order that as pr... HERMAN BAVINCK And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his s... BIBLE God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ... MATT CHANDLER An absolute way of becoming sin-free is by experiencing the aftermath of committing sin and then hat... WOHI PURANA The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn't sin but wants t... CRISS JAMI If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heav... JOSEPH SMITH, JR. God hardening Pharaoh’s heart causes the world to fear God and not think they can sin to the point... RABBI HILLEL To be right, a person must do one of two things: either he must learn to have God in his work and ho... MEISTER ECKHART He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin. THOMAS SECKER He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin. JOHN RUSKIN Our motive for obedience is just as important, probably more so, to God than the level of our perfor... JERRY BRIDGES If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suff... E.A. BUCCHIANERI Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely... MONICA JOHNSON Sometimes we look at gay being a bigger sin than being proud or not telling the truth. I don't t... JOEL OSTEEN Its one thing to forsake sin and quiet another to be forsaken by sin because to abstain from sin whe... STEPHEN .R. ANYAEGBU Man-like is it to fall into sin,
Fiend-like is it to dwell therein,
Christ-like is it for sin ... FRIEDRICH VON LOGAU Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will lea... ST. JOHN OF THE CROSS I couldn't bring myself to burn of all my sin and vanity because quite simply I'd have nothing left ... DANIEL ROBERT O'NEILL We're more concerned about our own "victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sins griev... JERRY BRIDGES The most wonderful thing of all about the cross is that it reveals the love of God to us. It is not ... D. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES
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