 Our first problem is that our attitude towards sin is more self-centred than God-centred. We are more concerned about our own "Victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sin grieve the heart of God. We cannot tolerate failure in our struggle with sin chiefly because we are success oriented, not because we know it is offensive to God. Author: Jerry Bridges |
| Light reveals righteousness, and it also reveals sin. Author: Theodore Epp |
| If Jesus didn't come here to save us from our sins, what did he come for? I don't believe that he came to give us cars and Cadillacs and big houses and rings and diamonds and gold and silver. Author: T.D. Jakes |
| I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread. Author: Vance Havner |
| We must not forget that it wasn't the Jews that put him on the cross, and it wasn't the Romans. It was my sins, it was your sins, the sins of this world. Author: Franklin Graham |
| None can hate [sin] but those that love the law of God; for all hatred comes from love. A natural man may be angry with his sin, but hate it he cannot; nay, he may leave it, but not loathe it; if he did, he would loathe all sin as well as any one sin. Author: Abraham Wright
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury |
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| Godly sorrow shows itself to be ingenuous because when a Christian knows that he is out of the gun-shot of hell and shall never be damned, yet still he grieves for sinning against that free grace which has pardoned him. Author: Thomas Watson
Source: The Doctrine of Repentance |
| It argues more grace to grieve for the sins of others than for our own. We may grieve for our own sins out of fear of hell, but to grieve for the sins of others is from a principle of love to God. Author: Thomas Watson
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury |
| Let them fear death who do not fear sin. Author: Thomas Watson
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury |
| Little sins unrepented of will damn thee as well as greater. Not only great rivers fall into the sea, but little brooks; not only greater sins carry men to hell, but lesser; therefore do not think pardon easy because sin is small. Author: Thomas Watson
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury |
| Satan doth not tempt God's children because they have sin in them, but because they have grace in them. Had they no grace, the devil would not disturb them... Though to be tempted is a trouble, yet to think why you are tempted is a comfort. Author: Thomas Watson
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury |
| The sins of the godly are worse than others, because they bring a greater reproach upon religion. For the wicked to sin, there is no other expected from them; swine will wallow in the mire; but when sheep do so, when the godly sin, that redounds to the dishonour of the Gospel: "By this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme." Author: Thomas Watson
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury |
