The full benefit of forgiveness of sin through the Savior’s Atonement begins with repentance and baptism and then expands upon receiving the Holy Ghost.
I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.
Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier.
What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it’s our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
Sin brought death, and death will disappear with the disappearance of sin.
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?
I have a really good relationship with Focus Features; we had a wonderful time working together on ‘Sin Nombre.’
The age of the Earth makes no difference with respect to Christ’s atoning sacrifice for humanity’s sin or to the nature and character of God, Earth’s age has no bearing on any of the historic Christian doctrines. No mention of Earth’s age appears in even the most detailed creedal statements.
Leaders are for calling people to their better angels, for helping guide them to a kind of sterner, more mature sense of what we need to do. To me, Reagan’s brand of leadership was what I call ‘a liturgy of absolution.’ He absolved Americans almost in a priestly role to contend with sin. Who wouldn’t want that?
A lot of Christians have been taught a story that begins in chapter 3 of Genesis, instead of chapter 1. If your story doesn’t begin in the beginning, but begins in chapter 3, then it starts with sin, and so the story becomes about dealing with the sin problem. So Jesus is seen as primarily dealing with our sins.
What we need to affirm is that Jesus is neither a Democrat nor a Republican. Whenever we marry Jesus to a political party, we are committing the sin of idolatry. We are making Jesus into the image of our political party.
The most original sin is not the thinker’s but the poet’s.
A lot of guys out here are very serious, and God bless them, that’s their personality. It’s not a sin to be business-like.
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
Misuse of privilege is seen as the worst sin.
The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.
But my doubt would not be overcome. Kierkegaard had declared that it was only to the consciousness of sin that Christianity was not horror or madness. For me it was sometimes both.
Greed is a sin because humans are social creatures. And they simply cannot survive without the opposite of greed, which is cooperation.
Cruelty is, perhaps, the worst kid of sin. Intellectual cruelty is certainly the worst kind of cruelty.
There were so many stories about Bing’s daughter living in sin. We weren’t hurting anyone. We were living in love. I couldn’t understand why people were trying to hurt us and hurt our families.
I find many drawbacks of myself. But, each time when I visit Lourdes, I receive a lesson of reconciliation. When you see ill people or invalids around, you realize that it is a sin to complain!
Sin leads to wickedness and to hearts that become hardened to things of the Spirit.
It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.
I usually have a couple of projects going on that are different. A ‘Sin City’ while I’m doing a ‘Spy Kids’ at the same time. I need different things going on.
Everything is blurred on what’s right and what’s wrong. Sin becomes fine. Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there.
I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.
It is a sin to be poor.
Sin is the reason we rebel against authority.
There is no sin except stupidity.
Sympathy is one of the principles most widely rooted in our nature: we rejoice to see ourselves reflected in another; and, perversely enough, we sometimes have a secret pleasure in seeing the sin which dwells in ourselves existing under a deformed and monstrous aspect in another.
To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.
Sin carries in it its own misery.
For a married woman to flirt is a sin.
But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time.
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.
I’ve got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I’m forgiven for it?
If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.
People of substance may sin without being exposed for their stolen pleasure; but servants and the poorer sort of women have seldom an opportunity of concealing a big belly, or at least the consequences of it.
Sin is geographical.
I grew up in a culture in which it was a sin for a woman to speak out.
‘Victoria Para Chino,’ my 2nd-year film at NYU, gave birth to ‘Sin Nombre.’
Who are you to condemn another’s sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.
The truth is the real Christian experience is truly about repenting every day because there is no Christian that doesn’t sin.
Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.
I was told I had an overabundance of original sin.
And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, ‘love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.
I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I’m confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.
Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.
It ain’t gun control we need; it’s sin control.
Riches cannot be gathered without sin and evil means.
Sin penetrates to the heart, darkens and hardens it until it extinguishes the light of belief. Each sin has a path that leads to unbelief. Unless that sin is swiftly obliterated by seeking God’s forgiveness, it grows from a worm into a snake that gnaws at the heart.
An animal takes freely anything that it wishes: it commits no sin and is not held responsible for its action because it knows no better. But as soon as the idea of ‘mine’ and ‘thine’ has been imprinted upon our consciousness, then also the responsibility comes.
Now I am near to the getting of my crown, which shall be sure; for I bless the Lord, and desire all of you to bless Him that He hath brought me here, and makes me triumph over devils, and men, and sin: they shall wound me no more.
If Christ has died for me, ungodly as I am, without strength as I am, then I cannot live in sin any longer, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me.
Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.
The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.
Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering.
It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.
Three conditions are necessary for Penance: contrition, which is sorrow for sin, together with a purpose of amendment; confession of sins without any omission; and satisfaction by means of good works.
What a terrible thing it would be to be the Pope! What unthinkable responsibilities to fall on your shoulders at an advanced age! No privacy. No seclusion. No sin.
The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.
I believe that if the Bible calls anything a sin, it’s listed in the same category as you would list pride, as you would list hate, as you would list any other thing.
