 He that boasts of being one of God's elect, while he is willfully and habitually living in sin, is only deceiving himself, and talking wicked blasphemy. Author: J.C. Ryle |
| I am convinced that the first step towards attaining a higher standard of holiness is to realize more fully the amazing sinfulness of sin. Author: J.C. Ryle |
| Once let us see that sin is far viler, and far nearer to us, and sticks more closely to us than we supposed, and we shall be led, I trust and believe, to get nearer to Christ. Author: J.C. Ryle |
| He sees all the twisted things about me that my fellow-men do not see (and I am glad!), and that He sees more corruption in me than that which I see in myself (which, in all conscience, is enough). Author: J.I. Packer |
| No sin is small. It is against an infinite God, and may have consequences immeasurable. No grain of sand is small in the mechanism of a watch. Author: Jeremy Taylor |
We are wearied with our sins, and have no satisfaction in them; we go to bed tonight weary of our sinful labors, and we will rise freshly tomorrow to the same sinful labors again.
- John Donne Author: Assorted Authors |
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| Such is the way with sinners. Everything excites their suspicion; they quake at every shadow; they start at every noise; they look upon every man as an enemy. Author: John Chrysostom |
| Take heed of little sins. Author: John Bunyan |
| One leak will sink a ship; and one sin will destroy a sinner. Author: John Bunyan |
| Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony. Author: John Stott |
| There is no enemy can hurt us but by our own hands. Satan could not hurt us, if our own corruption betrayed us not. Afflictions cannot hurt us without our own impatience. Temptations cannot hurt us, without our own yieldance. Death could not hurt us, without the sting of our own sins. Sins could not hurt us, without our own impenitence. Author: Joseph Hall |
| There are only two kinds of persons: those dead in sin and those dead to sin. Author: Leonard Ravenhill |
