The seed of sin is in us when we are born.
How can we love sin, when we remember that because of our sins Jesus died?
The very act of faith by which we receive Christ is an act of the utter renunciation of self, and all its works, as a ground of salvation. It is really a denial of self, and a grounding of its arms in the last citadel into which it can be driven, and is, in its principle, inclusive of every subsequent act of self-denial by which sin is forsaken or overcome.
Now, my friend, I beg you to consider that this blindness and unyielding hardness is the very core of your iniquity, and to be convinced that you are thus blind and stupid is true conviction of sin.
Don't judge me because I sin differently from you.
Sin always seems 'good, and pleasant, and desirable,' at the time of commission.
Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.
You will not become a saint through other people's sins.
To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.
The sin of capitalism, perhaps, is to make wants feel like needs, to give to simple silly stuff the urgency of near-physical necessity: I must have it. The grace of capitalism is to make wants feel like hopes, so that material objects and stuff can feel like the possibility of something heroic and civic.
To me the thought of oneself as low and humble is a sin and ignorance.
Use sin as it will use you; spare it not, for it will not spare you; it is your murderer, and the murderer of the world: use it, therefore, as a murderer should be used. Kill it before it kills you.
The distinction between feelings or inclinations on the one hand, and behavior on the other hand, is very clear. It's no sin to have inclinations that if yielded to would produce behavior that would be a transgression. The sin is in yielding to temptation. Temptation is not unique. Even the Savior was tempted.
If we do not understand our sin, we will not understand the kind of savior we need.
If someone falls into any sin and is not sincerely grieved about it, it is easy for him to fall into the same thing again.
A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out.
Sex is not sinful, but sin has perverted it.
Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.
It iz comparitively eazy tew repent ov the sins that we hav committed, but tew repent ov thoze which we intend to commit, is asking tew mutch ov enny man, now days.
. . . And in freedom, most people find sin.