Sins Not Quotes

The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.

My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought! My sin, not in part but the whole, Is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more, Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!

Christian liberty is freedom from sin, not freedom to sin.

To engage people in culture we must remember that holiness is separation from sin, not separation from sinners.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

Christ came to take away our sins, not our minds.

It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same.

We...sin not because we want what is evil, but because we want what isn't good enough.

This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.

Dying is not a sin. Not living is.

Imagination is a God-given gift; but if it is fed dirt by the eye, it will be dirty. All sin, not least sexual sin, begins with the imagination. Therefore what feeds the imagination is of maximum importance in the pursuit of kingdom righteousness.

The mind sins, not the body; if there is no intention, there is no blame.

It's bad enough for me to make choices that hurt my own relationship with God. How much more serious is it to be the cause of someone else deciding to sin? Not only must I choose the pathway of holiness for God's sake and for my own sake; I must also do it for the sake of others.

Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the farthest distance from sin; not to go near the house of the harlot, but to fly from all appearance of evil (Prov. 5:8, I Thess. 5:22). The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance; he that will be so bold as to attempt to dance upon the brink of the pit, may find by woeful experience that it is a righteous thing with God that he should fall into the pit.

You would think that everyone would leap at the chance to get rid of sin. Not so. They want relief not a cure.

What is it that renders death terrible? Sin. We must therefore fear sin, not death.

The blood of Christ stands not simply for the sting of sin on God but the scourge of God on sin, not simply for God's sorrow over sin, but for God's wrath on sin.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

God's mercy is a holy mercy, which knows how to pardon sin, not to protect it; it is a sanctuary for the penitent, not for the presumptuous.

Keep God's covenant in your trials; hold you by His blessed word, and sin not; flee anger, wrath, grudging, envying, fretting; forgive a hundred pence to your fellow-servant, because your Lord hath forgiven you ten thousand talents: for, I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.

Hatred of sin as sin, not only as galling or disquieting, a sense of the love of Christ in the cross, lie at the bottom of all true spiritual mortification.