Grace works ahead of us to draw us toward faith, to begin its work in us. Even the first fragile intuition of conviction of sin, the first intimation of our need of God, is the...

When they were partially up the stairs and mostly out of earshot, Sin looked at Boyd again. ‘Don’t get killed or I’ll be very annoyed with you.

Antioch, farewell! for wisdom sees, those men blush not in actions blacker than the night, will ‘schew no course to keep them from the light. One sin, I know, another doth provoke; Murder’s as near...

He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and...

[It] could be argued that the favorite sin of Satan would not be vanity, as described in ‘Devil’s Advocate’, or even unbelief in the existence of the devil, as described in ‘The Usual Suspects,’ but...

Sin dies in us when we stay alive in Jesus Christ.

When the mind, for want of being sufficiently reduced by recollection at our first engaging in devotion, has contracted certain bad habits of wandering and dissipation, they are difficult to overcome, and commonly draw us,...

But perhaps there are insensitive hearts, still incapable of receiving this Light because the weight of their sins prevents them from seeing it. Let them not imagine that they Light is absent because they do...

Sin has sprung from a royal though evil stock, and if it be in the heart, it will struggle for the throne.

Vita ya dhambi hupiganwa katika uwanja wa akili na katika uwanja wa mwili kati ya Shetani na Mungu. Hutumia silaha kuu ya uongo na silaha kuu ya ukweli. Mungu anataka tuujue ukweli. Shetani anataka tuujue...

Good…if you’ve done things you aren’t proud of. It means you have a conscience.

The more we love God, the more unpleasant sin becomes.

The modern world has forgotten the necessity of encouraging men to be better. They speak of sick men or healthy men, of interesting people or uninteresting people; they never, or seldom, indicate that there is...

Your behavior doesn’t show you who you are, it shows you who you believe yourself to be.

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself...