We must show sympathy with sinners, but not with their sins.
With the world in the state it is today, whoever is virtuous must be so to the point of sainthood, and even beyond; whoever is a sinner must be so to the point of bestiality and even beyond. Today the middle road is no more.
We're all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.
Justification and regeneration are simultaneous. The pardoned sinner becomes a child of God in justification.
You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.
I like you being the sinner you are. -Adrian Ivashkov
Faith from, its essential nature implies the fallen state of man, while it recognizes the principles of the covenant of grace. It is itself the condition of that covenant. It is a grace which is alike distinguished from the love of angels and the faith of devils. It is peculiar to the returning sinner. None but a lost sinner needs it; none but a humbled sinner relishes it.
I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying.
The heartbrokenness of the sinner is better than the forcefulness of the obedient
I understand religion is a walk, it's a journey. And I fully recognize that I'm a sinner, just like you.
Lord make me as holy as a pardoned sinner can be.
There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner.
Only the sinner has the right to preach.
I have declared again and again that if I say Aryans , I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I mean simply those who speak an Aryan language. . . in that sense, and in that sense only, do I say that even the blackest Hindus represent an earlier stage of Aryan speech and thought than the fairest Scandinavians. . . To me an ethnologist who speaks of Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar.
It was the sinner that Christ came to help.
The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines.
Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. But all self-dependence is vain. It is only by connecting with Jesus through faith that the sinner becomes a hopeful, believing child of God.
Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good.
I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner, the virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, “God in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.
Whoever with fear of God corrects and directs a sinner gains virtue for himself, that of opposition to sin. But whoever insults a sinner with rancor and without good will falls, according to a spiritual law, into the same passion with the sinner.