Quotes about Sinner

They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself. Votes: 6

One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner. Votes: 6

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. Votes: 6

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? Votes: 6

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner. Votes: 6

You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you. Votes: 6

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner. Votes: 6

The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that. Votes: 6

Hate the sin, love the sinner. Votes: 4

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited. Votes: 4

Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Votes: 4

I hate the sin, but I love the sinner. Votes: 4

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. Votes: 4

I am a great Sinner and God is a great Savior Votes: 4

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Votes: 4

We're all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner. Votes: 4

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever. Votes: 4

Oh, everything's too damned expensive these days. This Bible cost 15 bucks! And talk about a preachy book! Everybody's a sinner! Except this guy. Votes: 4

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. Votes: 4

Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong, but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world. Votes: 4

If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there unwarned and unprayed for. Votes: 4

Oh who is that young sinner with the handcuffs on his wrist? And what has he been after that they groan and shake their fists? And wherefore is he wearing such a conscience-stricken air? Oh they're taking him to prison for the colour of his hair. Votes: 4

The death of Jesus was the opening and the emptying of the full heart of God; it was the outgushing of that ocean of infinite mercy that heaved and panted and longed for an outlet; it was God showing how he could love a poor, guilty sinner. Votes: 4

Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice. Votes: 3

Jesus was a friend and not a judge. He loved the sinners as much as He loved the little ones. That man was love and not an act Votes: 3

Born of Black and White, Eaten with worms, I'm a Saint, a Sinner, a Siren of the Word, The Circle knows me, the rest just wanna trip on Grace Juice, Baby Showdown at midnight Votes: 3

So many times, I had chosen not to be with her. Too busy. Too tires. Don't feel like dealing with it. Church? No thanks. Sinner? Sorry. Come down to visit? Can't do it, maybe next week. Votes: 3

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence. Votes: 3

The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day. Votes: 2

It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner. Votes: 2

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon. Votes: 2

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin. Votes: 2

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ. Votes: 2

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world. Votes: 2

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide. Votes: 2

You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Sink or swim, I go to Him; other hope, I have none. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not! Votes: 2

Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.' Votes: 2

The love of Christ reaches to the very depths of earthly misery and woe, or it would not meet the case of the veriest sinner. It also reaches to the throne of the eternal, or man could not he lifted from his degraded condition, and our necessities would not be met, our desires would be unsatisfied. Votes: 2

This is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff. I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance. Votes: 2

Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace. Votes: 2

I challenged God. I said, 'God, I know that I'm a sinner. I know that I won't probably have peace until You're in my heart. But I will not let You in my heart until You answer me, why? Why did you take my arms and legs? Why didn't You give me what everybody else has? God, until You answer me that question, I will not serve You.' Votes: 2

Lord make me as holy as a pardoned sinner can be. Votes: 1

Grace is the understanding that God is a better savior than you are a sinner. Votes: 1

Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed. Votes: 1

You are a sinner married to a sinner...and the happiest marriage is the union of two forgivers. Votes: 1

A sinner is not justified before God (coram Deo) apart from the righteousness of Christ apprehended by faith. Votes: 1

You regard it as impossible that a sinner should be struck down by the wrath of God! I do not! Votes: 1

My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died... Votes: 1

Never does a person see any beauty in Christ as a Savior, until they discover that they are a lost and ruined sinner. Votes: 1

What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in quenchless flames of hell. Votes: 1

The Gospel of John opens with Jesus Christ in the bosom of God, and closes with the sinner in the bosom of Jesus Christ. Votes: 1

For if the truth of God hath more abounded through my lie unto his glory; why yet am I also judged as a sinner? Votes: 1

There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell. Votes: 1

To acknowledge that I am yet a sinner is not to deny that I am a saint but to acknowledge how I became one, by grace. Votes: 1

A Christian is nothing more than a sinner who has found out their sinfulness, and has learned the blessed secret of living by faith in Christ. Votes: 1

Not only the guilt, but the love of sin, and its dominion, are taken away, subdued by grace, and cordially renounced by the believing pardoned sinner. Votes: 1

Hate the sin, love the sinner Votes: 0

Redemption is invented by the sinner. Votes: 0

Love the sinner and hate the sin. Votes: 0

I'm an old sinner. Nothing shocks me. Votes: 0

Sin and the sinner both deserve punishment Votes: 0

A sweet face oft hides a sinner's heart. Votes: 0

SAINT, n. A dead sinner revised and edited. Votes: 0

God is righteous in making the sinner righteous. Votes: 0

Only the sinner has the right to preach. Votes: 0

There is no sinner like a young saint. Votes: 0

A saint is a sinner who keeps on trying. Votes: 0

Men who ape the saint and play the sinner. Votes: 0

A saint is a sinner who never gave up. Votes: 0

He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner. Votes: 0

It was the sinner that Christ came to help. Votes: 0

One can convert only a sinner, never a saint. Votes: 0

I only need a mirror to see a sinner. Votes: 0

He who doesn't sin, is the greatest sinner of all. Votes: 0

The beginning of knowledge is to know thyself a sinner. Votes: 0

I like you being the sinner you are. -Adrian Ivashkov Votes: 0

An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint. Votes: 0

I know I'm a sinner, but make me a winner! Votes: 0

Illusion I will be, for I've never been a sinner. Votes: 0

Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner. Votes: 0

A saint is a sinner who loves; it's that simple! Votes: 0

We ought to love the sinner and hate OUR sin. Votes: 0

I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none. Votes: 0

You don't become a saint by comparing yourself to a sinner. Votes: 0

If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner. Votes: 0

I have no quarrel with people seeing me as a sinner. Votes: 0

Do not hate a sinner, for we all are to be responsible. Votes: 0

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future. Votes: 0

The loudest psalm singer in the congregation always is a reformed sinner. Votes: 0

Come poor, lost, undone sinner, come just as you are to Christ. Votes: 0

Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins. Votes: 0

I am a sinner....who's probably gonna sin again...Lord forgive me! Votes: 0

It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner. Votes: 0

You make me a sinner if you stop me giving you hospitality. Votes: 0

In the land of the killers, a sinner's mind is a sanctum. Votes: 0

Being a sinner does not disqualify you from following Jesus. It's a prerequisite. Votes: 0

A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable. Votes: 0

To me a saint is a severely edited sinner. That's what I think. Votes: 0

A gospel that in no way offends the sinner has not been understood. Votes: 0

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin. Votes: 0

The heartbrokenness of the sinner is better than the forcefulness of the obedient Votes: 0

Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good. Votes: 0

Born a saint, die a sinner - born a sinner, die a saint. Votes: 0

May we be enabled to say "No" to sin and "Yes" to the sinner. Votes: 0

If you're going to be a sinner, be the best sinner on the block. Votes: 0

I don't the life of a thug. I live the life of a sinner. Votes: 0

No fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin. Votes: 0

no one is more trustworthy than the repentant sinner who has been found out. Votes: 0

Brethren, the just man shall scarcely be saved. What, then, will become of the sinner? Votes: 0

The sinner's prayer has sent more people to Hell than all the bars in America. Votes: 0

Justification and regeneration are simultaneous. The pardoned sinner becomes a child of God in justification. Votes: 0

Call me a sinner, Mock me maliciously: I was your insomnia, I was your grief. Votes: 0

The infinite Atonement is for both the sinner and for the saint in each of us. Votes: 0

Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track. Votes: 0

If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray! Votes: 0

if I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation Votes: 0

The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness. Votes: 0

Whenever you preach, be sure that you lift the Saviour high and lay the sinner low. Votes: 0

Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it, If folly grow romantic, I must paint it. Votes: 0

The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action. Votes: 0

My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.' Votes: 0

Hockey is like a religion in Montreal. You're either a saint or a sinner; there's no in-between. Votes: 0

If you see yourself as a "little sinner" you will inevitably see Jesus as a "little savior". Votes: 0

The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous! Votes: 0

The saint and the sinner are twin brothers...one was born but the moment before the other. Votes: 0

The reason you don't like the Bible, you old sinner, is because it knows all about you. Votes: 0

The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner. Votes: 0

The prayer of one who does not consider himself a sinner is not accepted by the Lord. Votes: 0

The goal is not to make you a smarter sinner but to make you like the Savior. Votes: 0

When Satan tells me I am a sinner he comforts me immeasurably, since Christ died for sinners. Votes: 0

It wasn't a potential atonement actuated by the sinner, it was an actual atonement initiated by the savior. Votes: 0

The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure. Votes: 0

It wasn't a potential atonement actuated by the sinner, it was an actual atonement initiated by the savior. Votes: 0

Regard yourself all the more as a sinner because you cannot feel yourself to be what you are. Votes: 0

God has been described by all the scriptures of the world as protector and saviour of the sinner. Votes: 0

Be a sinner and sin boldly, but believe and rejoice in Christ even more boldly. Votes: 0

However great a sinner may have been, if he shows himself devout to Mary he will never perish. Votes: 0

I can only say that I am nothing but a poor sinner, trusting in Christ alone for salvation. Votes: 0

Since I am a great sinner, I cannot reject those who have been, provided they have good will. Votes: 0

The sinner does not feel any remorse over his sins, that is because his heart is already dead Votes: 0

God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man. Votes: 0

God’s love for the biggest sinner is greater than the love of the holiest man for God Votes: 0

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying. Votes: 0

God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner. Votes: 0

It is not the way to convert a sinner to knock him down first and then reason with him. Votes: 0

I am a sinner, and I consider myself very fortunate to suffer something for the name of Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

Think not of the sinner or the greatness of his sin, but think of the greatness of the Savior! Votes: 0

Faith is the act of trust by which one being, a sinner, commits himself to another being, a Saviour. Votes: 0

Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!" Votes: 0

Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity. Votes: 0

If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic. Votes: 0

There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner... Votes: 0

Christ is not knocking on the door of a sinner's heart, but on the door of a wayward church. Votes: 0

In truth, there is no such thing as a "sinner" for no-one can be sinned against-least of all me. Votes: 0

The Gospel is open to all; the most respectable sinner has no more claim on it than the worst. Votes: 0

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed. Votes: 0

The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.(August 9, 1955) Votes: 0

When a majority of my prayers are for others to change, I've gotten off track. Lord, change this sinner's heart. Votes: 0

Cheer up: You're a worse sinner than you ever dared imagine, and you're more loved than you ever dared hope. Votes: 0

Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong. Votes: 0

I'm a picker, I'm a grinner, I'm a lover and I'm a sinner. I play my music in the sun. Votes: 0

Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all. Votes: 0

I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many. Votes: 0

I understand religion is a walk, it's a journey. And I fully recognize that I'm a sinner, just like you. Votes: 0

We only fully grasp the gospel when we understand, as Paul did, that we are the worst sinner we know Votes: 0

Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior. Votes: 0

[Bob Dylan] is a preacher but also a sinner; a poet but also a pitchman; authentic all-American but also invented persona. Votes: 0

The popular gospel of this day, is the laughing-stock of Hell; it dare neither damn the sinner, nor sanctify the saint. Votes: 0

When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken. Votes: 0

The prayer that reforms the sinner and heals the sick is an absolute faith that all things are possible to God ... Votes: 0

Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path. Votes: 0

I'm a sinner. I fumble. People must see me as one of them. The things that worry them, must worry me Votes: 0

The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant. Votes: 0

The sinless One took on the face of a sinner so that we sinners could take on the face of a saint. Votes: 0

By the time the Truth comes, you'd have been a sure-shot rascal, a long-gone bastard, a life-long sinner, but an ever-humble winner. Votes: 0

The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955) Votes: 0

My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here. Votes: 0

How can you admit that your only hope is divine grace and then throw condemnation at another sinner when you see them struggle? Votes: 0

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification. Votes: 0

Although the sinner does not believe in Hell, he shall nevertheless go there if he has the misfortune to die in mortal sin. Votes: 0

The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it. Votes: 0

The sinner can no more raise himself from the deadness of sin than Lazarus, who had been dead four days, until Jesus came. Votes: 0

Through Christ we have a new identity--we should not be speaking to our old man, the sinner, and giving him his identity back. Votes: 0

The sinner is not the one who uses a lot of grace... The saint burns grace like a 747 burns fuel on take off. Votes: 0

You weren't picky about who got hurt. Still aren't. So don't preach at us like you're some kind of saint. You're just another sinner. Votes: 0

He loves, He hopes, He waits. Our Lord prefers to wait Himself for the sinner for years rather than keep us waiting an instant. Votes: 0

I plan to be a sinner tonight. Could've been something else, but looked way too good in my red dress to be anything Christian. Votes: 0

I was a sinner. I knew that without a doubt. But I was not alone. And the night was the accomplice of us all. Votes: 0

The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn't sin but wants to sin. Votes: 0

There is no benefit to the conservative sinner in being a conservative. There is great benefit to the liberal sinner in being a liberal. Votes: 0

It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit. Votes: 0

Envy, though not the greatest sin, is the only one that gives the sinner no pleasure at all, not even fake and temporary satisfaction. Votes: 0

The gospel has two parts. It has the part that says you're a sinner, and it has the part that says you're loved and accepted. Votes: 0

There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I'm the biggest sinner of them all. Votes: 0

You see what a poor sinner I am, and how unworthy to possess what was given me; for that reason it has been taken away. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Non-co-operation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented. Votes: 0

The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint. Votes: 0

Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance. Votes: 0

If you violate laws of God, you're a sinner.If you violate laws of men, you're a criminal.If you violate your own laws, you're pathetic. Votes: 0

...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men. Votes: 0

The greater evil who is in- When both in wayward paths are straying? The poor sinner for the pain Or he who pays for the sin? Votes: 0

When a sinner has any just sense of his condition, as alienated from a holy God, he will not be apt to think of the unpardonable sin. Votes: 0

The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats the Fall. Votes: 0

There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary, and by asking her assistance. Votes: 0

The monument I want after I am dead is a monument with two legs going around the world-a saved sinner telling about the salvation of Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

Damning, with bell, book and candle / Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal. / A rite permitting Satan to enslave him / Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him. Votes: 0

My past is no secret to anyone. I'm a blackguard and a sinner, and everyone knows it. These days, that's almost an asset to being a politician. Votes: 0

Nothing is uglier than the sinner, nothing so leprous or fetid; the scar of his crimes is still raw, and he stinks like the cave of Hell. Votes: 0

Whenever anybody called Nelson Mandela a saint, he would say: "If by saint you mean a sinner who is trying to be better, then I'm a saint." Votes: 0

All I know is that I'm a sinner and that God has forgiven me of my sins. Because I put my faith and trust in Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth! Votes: 0

You go up to the devil and ask if he knows he's a sinner and he'll say, "Well, yes I am! And a mighty fine one at that!" Votes: 0

If we can't "love the sinner; hate the sin" then how can we relate to ourselves? Love who we are in Christ but still hate the sin remaining. Votes: 0

His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousands and thousands. Votes: 0

Oh, on that day, that wrathful day, When man to judgment wakes front clay, Be Thou, O Christ, the sinner's stay, Though heaven and earth shall pass away. Votes: 0

All human history attests That happiness for man, - the hungry sinner! - Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ~Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto XIII, stanza 99 Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. Votes: 0

A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience was yet vigilant and tender. Votes: 0

Of the 417 commandments, only a single one of the 417 has found ministerial obedience; multiply and replenish the earth. To it sinner & saint, scholar & ignoramus, Christian & savage are alike loyal. Votes: 0

Here lay Cain's fatal mistake: "He was rejected, not because he was a sinner, but because, being a sinner, he had dared to approach a holy God without blood." Votes: 0

Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; he is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I understand I'm a sinner. I'm not perfect, and I need a Savior, and that I'm not going to make it to Heaven on merits and doing good things. Votes: 0

God led Jesus to a cross, not a crown, and yet that cross ultimately proved to be the gateway to freedom and forgiveness for every sinner in the world. Votes: 0

I would sooner bring one sinner to Jesus Christ than unravel all the mysteries of the divine Word, for salvation is the one thing we are to live for. Votes: 0

God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand no bowels, Only consonants and vowels. Votes: 0

In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner. Votes: 0

It is a great truth, " God reigns," and therefore grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord; and, therefore, no sinner on earth need ever despair. Votes: 0

Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross; for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way. Votes: 0

Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world. Votes: 0

I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of Christ and not by Christ's 'words and example.' Votes: 0

When you hear of a notorious sinner, instead of thinking you do well to be angry, beg of Jesus Christ to convert, and make him a monument of his free grace. Votes: 0

Indeed, baptism is a vow, a sacred vow of the believer to follow Christ. Just as a wedding celebrates the fusion of two hearts, baptism celebrates the union of sinner with Savior. Votes: 0

I have a tender reliance on the mercy of the Almighty, through the merits of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am a sinner. I look to Him for mercy; pray for me. Votes: 0

I do not stand here before you as a self-righteous saint who has achieved spiritual perfection, but as a sinner who has received Jesus into his heart as his Lord and Savior. Votes: 0

Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect, is to be a disciplined sinner. Perfection, as Valery noted, is work. Votes: 0

For no man is damned precisely because God hath not chosen him, because he is not elected, but because he is a sinner, and doth wilfully refuse the means of grace offered. Votes: 0

A Catholic may sin and sin as badly as anyone else, but no genuine Catholic ever denies he is a sinner. A Catholic wants his sins forgiven - not excused or sublimated. Votes: 0

It is a strange thing that both the injurer and the injured, the sinner and he who is sinned against, should find in the mass movement an escape from a blemished life. Votes: 0

When God accepts a sinner, He is, in fact, only accepting Christ. He looks into the sinner's eyes, and He sees His own dear Son's image there, and He takes him in. Votes: 0

Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great definition. . . Charity: The ability to love the sinner and hate the sin. Votes: 0

All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else. Votes: 0

God does not work salvation for fictitious sinners. Be a sinner and sin vigorously... Do not for a moment imagine that this life is the abiding place of justice; sin must be committed. Votes: 0

It is a good thing to be a great sinner. Or should human beings allow Christ to have died on the Cross for the sake of our petty lies and our paltry whorings Votes: 0

I've been the lowest low on the planet, I've been a sinner all my days. And I was living with my hands on the trigger, I had no sense to change my ways. Votes: 0

The gospel casts out a rope to hale sinners to land; but the sinner has no hands to lay hold on it; his very faith must be wrought in him by the Spirit. Votes: 0

Tis not for us to warn a wilful sinner; We stay him not, but let him run his course, Till by misfortunes rous'd, his conscience wakes, And prompts him to appease th' offended gods. Votes: 0

O sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Mary in all you necessities. Call her to your assistance, for such is the divine Will that she should help in every kind of necessity. Votes: 0

It's true he was a sinner. But don't pass so final a judgement. Have pity in your heart and don't forget that he may yet be an Augustine, while you remain just another mediocrity. Votes: 0

I am, as ever, a poor sinner, a captive of eternal love, running by the side of His triumphal chariot, and I have no desire to be anything else as long as I live. Votes: 0

Every sinner is now on trial once for all. He is now invited by the bleeding Saviour, urged by all the horrors of hell, to enter heaven. But death closes the possibility for ever. Votes: 0

Only love for Christ has the power to incapacitate the sturdy love for self that is the bane of every sinner, and only the grace of Christ has the power to produce that love." Votes: 0

Only love for Christ has the power to incapacitate the sturdy love for self that is the bane of every sinner, and only the grace of Christ has the power to produce that love. Votes: 0

The fool who repeats again and again: "I am bound, I am bound," remains in bondage. He who repeats day and night: "I am a sinner, I am a sinner," becomes a sinner indeed. Votes: 0

Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God. Votes: 0

I want to create no matter what methods I have to use. And you want to steal no matter what methods you have to use. Given that which of us is the greater sinner? Votes: 0

I struggle with pride every day, but the one thing that I try to remind myself everyday is that I'm still a sinner no matter how many points/assists/win I get on the court. Votes: 0

God has such gladness every time he sees from heaven that a sinner is praying to Him with all his heart, as a mother has when she sees the first smile on her baby's face. Votes: 0

So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know anyone except my wife who isn't a big time sinner. Votes: 0

The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ. Votes: -1