I know of no other way to triumph over sin long-term than to gain a distaste for it because of a superior satisfaction in God.

We’re more concerned about our own “victory” over sin than we are about the fact that our sins grieve God’s heart.

For the lips of an immoral woman drip honey, and her mouth is smoother than oil; but in the end she is as bitter as wormword, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down...

At a certain point in his life he stopped searching for himself in everything that exists and gave in to temptations. Or, as you say, he sinned and later fled.

Evil then consists not in being created but in the rebellious idolatry by which humans worship and honour elements of the natural world rather than the God who made them. The result is that the...

Paul tells us that, “The wages of sin is death.” That’s the bill. Our choice to sin has created a barrier between us and God, taken a toll on our relationship with Him that we...

Sin happens whenever we refuse to keep growing.

[M]an cannot be wicked without being evil, nor evil without being degraded, nor degraded without being punished, nor punished without being guilty. In short … there is nothing so intrinsically plausible as the theory of...

Wasting talent is a sin. I’m not big on sin, but I know a sin when I see one staring me in the face. I’m not big on sin, but I know a sin when...

I don’t think sin is as black and white as people want it to be. I think sin comes in an array of colors and one of them is so bright that it blinds us...

Accept the long night patiently, quietly, humbly, and resignedly as intended for your true good. It is not a punishment for sin committed but an instrument of annihilating egoism.

We want to be saved from our misery, but not from our sin. We want to sin without misery, just as the prodigal son wanted inheritance without the father. The foremost spiritual law of the...

Christian consciousness experiences itself in a curious sense as LIBERATED TO FAIL, without intolerable damage to self-esteem and without any reduction of moral seriousness. We are free to be inadequate, free to foul things up,...

I thought I was over him! So why did my heart still rip? Why did I still feel this sorrow? I got this strange sensation that God was with me. And he was angry. He...

The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever...

No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy, and the rare, sudden gentlenesses of arrogant people have infinitely...

Thank Heaven,” thought Ransom, “he is only teaching her vanity”; for he and feared something worse. Yet could it be possible, in the long run, to wear clothes without learning modesty, and through modesty lasciviousness?

Our tainted world looms within us, every one.

He is broken in three ways, sometimes four. I count them.-He believes himself to be human, but is not actually. At least not anymore. This is similar to the way he believes himself to be...

He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.

But protest that priests are ‘no worse’ than other groups or than men in general is a dire indictment of the profession. It is surprising that this attitude is championed by the Church authorities. Although...

Ni rahisi kushinda vita ya maisha na kuishi mbinguni duniani. Ni vigumu kushinda vita ya dhambi na kuishi mbinguni paradiso.

The Christian does not avoid sin to achieve salvation, but rather salvation brings him to a desire not to sin. The closer that one’s spirit is synchronized with the holy knowledge of God, the more...

subvert” that brokenness.

I did not intend making a philippic against covetousness, a sin to which I believe no one here is addicted. Let us not, however, plume ourselves in not being guilty of a vice to which,...

But in his lapsed and sinful state, man is not capable, of any by himself, either to think, to will, or to do that which is really good, but it is necessary for him to...

The monks used to say that he was more drawn to those who were more sinful, and the greater the sinner the more he loved him.

Thou hast gone on in all thy life hitherto, ever since thou wast born, in a continual opposition to God Himself, unto the infinite Lord, the eternal first being of all the world; thy life...

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

When we worry, we are telling God, “You are neither trustworthy nor in control, so I need to worry and scheme as I take matters into my own hands.” In this way unbelief drives worry,...

Love a man even in his sin, for that is the semblance of Divine Love and is the highest love on eath. Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it....

So often, we had the tendency of saying, they’re the problem. No, they’re not the problem. Our heart is the problem. they are just there to show me what is in my heart. They don’t...

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable.

In life I would much prefer to be sinned upon than the sinner. It is easier, vous comprenez? With the clear conscience one sleeps very well. The sinner may deny it… but in his heart...

Do not be irritated either with those who sin or those who offend; do not have a passion for noticing every sin in your neighbour, and for judging him, as we are in the habit...

Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. Guilt, fear, sin, doubt. That’s what religion is all about.

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

In spite of our sinfulness, in spite of the darkness surrounding our souls, the Grace of the Holy Spirit, conferred by baptism in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,...

The only crime is pride.

A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.

Thunderously, inarguably, the Sermon on the Mount proves that before God we all stand on level ground: murderers and temper-throwers, adulterers and lusters, thieves and coveters. We are all desperate, and that is in fact...

We are not only contingent beings, dependent on the love and will of a Creator whom we cannot know experientially except in so far as he reveals to us our personal relationship with him as...

Sin bites bitter. But oh, the sweet taste of salvation, that stirs the spirit!

All of us to one degree or another disconnect from God’s story because we are fundamentally committed to being the author of our own stories.

With the veil removed by the rending of Jesus’ flesh, with nothing on God’s side to prevent us from entering, why do we tarry without? Why do we consent to abide all our days just...

The noonday devil of the Christian life is the temptation to lose the inner self while preserving the shell of edifying behavior. Suddenly I discover that I am ministering to AIDS victims to enhance my...

She smashes her knuckles into winterAs autumn’s wind fades into blackShe is the saint of all the sinners,the one whose fallen through the cracks…(iViva la Gloria!)

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.’ These men without possessions or power, these strangers on Earth, these sinners, these followers of Jesus, have in their life with him renounced their own dignity,...

My heart is desperately wicked” provides no such comforts. It heads off all attempts to shift blame, and cuts down all the pretensions of spiritual pride.

While it is important on the one hand that laxness in dealing with sin be avoided, it is equally important on the other to shun harsh judgment and groundless suspicion.