As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but good versus fools who think they are good.

Sin and grace, absence and presence, tragedy and comedy, they divide the world between them and where they meet head on, the Gospel happens.

Telling people they don’t have a sin nature doesn’t promote sin anymore than telling a slave they are free promotes slavery.

Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior.

Satan fell by the force of gravity.

Paul’s antidote for wimpy Christians is weighty doctrine. . . .everything that exists—including evil—is ordained by a holy and all-wise God to make the glory of Christ shine more brightly. We don’t make God. He...

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

Divines are generally agreed that sin radically and fundamentally consists in what is negative, or privative, having its root and foundation in a privation or want of holiness. And therefore undoubtedly, if it be so...

The harsh reality is that my flesh must die not so much because of what it does, but because of what it is.

The Castus had become a myth to most, a shadow, but Thomas knew that every rumor was rooted in truth.

It was not the sorrow of the world that broke the heart of Christ, but its wickedness. He was equal to its sorrow … He began by being the world’s healer. But what broke him...

I do not think you should get rid of your sin until you have learned what it has to teach you.

Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical...

I should be inclined, therefore, as I have hinted before, to consider the world and this life as the mighty process of God, not for the trial, but for the creation and formation of mind,...

The original sin is to limit the Is. Don’t.

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

My brother trolled recovery and support groups, searching for women with dependency issues, the way I frequented bookstores with the hope of finding a well-adjusted, intelligent woman. Between us, his record was more stellar, his...

Being with him makes me feel different.

I want to do what little I can to make my country truly free, to broaden the intellectual horizon of our people, to destroy the prejudices born of ignorance and fear, to do away with...

If you say that you never lie in life,you honestly insult my intelligence.

The Divine “goodness” differs from ours, but it is not sheerly different; it differs from ours not as white from black, but as a perfect circle from a child’s first attempt to draw a wheel....

Hesitating, I stood in the doorway to the room holding the proof of my sin.

Every fall makes a dent; every fault has to be corrected; and every sin has to be cleansed. Everyone is a prisoner.

I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn’t find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance – You oh God – towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life...

If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.

Baada ya Adam na Hawa kutenda dhambi katika bustani ya Edeni, kila mtu anayezaliwa anazaliwa katika dhambi. Kwa hiyo dhambi hutokana na maisha, na maisha hutokana na dhambi.

We owe God a “double debt” incurred by our passive receipt of Adam’s debt but also by our active disobedience. The extent of our depravity is such that we also owe a “daring debt” because...

A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to break it? Not at all; but the desires which tend to break it...

The world is evil only when you become its slave.

Those who correct others should watch for the Holy Spirit to go ahead of them and touch a person’s heart. Learn to imitate Him who reproves gently. . . .When you become outraged over a...

There is only one way to salvation, and that is to make yourself responsible for all men’s sins. As soon as you make yourself responsible in all sincerity for everything and for everyone, you will...

I’ve never seen such a bunch of apple-eaters.

we were made to be like this; filled with ashes and feels, burning down to what we dont want to be and what we dont want to see. sins? they are just a choice.

Whether you realize it or not, your ongoing battle with unbelief drives all your sinful thoughts, emotions, desires, and actions.

Her clear conscience mocked rumour’s mendacity, But we are a mob prone to credit sin.

To err is human – but it feels divine.

Lucifer spoke thus. Pride took him from heaven, though he sat at God’s right hand.’ Her voice grew faint, the hint of a whisper. ‘In the end pride is the only evil, the root of...

Each confrontation between Jesus and another person or group reveals what we do to each other, personally and on a public level. Each is an indictment against Christians, followers of the man crucified, the suffering...

When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself for those who are hungry, for those who have no schools,...

She understood the nature of sin and knew that its most volatile form was the kind that did not recognize itself.

We’re a divided country on sexual issues. That’s why every news cycle brings more controversy.

Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not...

While the memory of guilt is far from pleasant (like ‘wormwood and gall’), it has the curative intent of restoring us into an awareness of the constancy of God’s love, new every morning. God’s mercy...

Man’s thought is always of the punishment that will come to him if he sins. God’s thought is always of the glory man will miss if he sins. God’s purpose for redemption is glory, glory,...

The proper biblical understanding of sin is much more radical and far-reaching. It can never be used as a weapon, because it will recoil on anyone who tries to deploy it that way.

Nothing is a sin when you obey the orders of a priest

Vanity is my favourite sin.

Not doing anything is doing something and choosing to look away is a passive but no less mortal sin.

The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show compassion; but that He cannot and will not have a...

Despite our battered exterior and in spite of the festering scars and rank filth that overlays it, there is underneath it all the pristine likeness of God Himself. And we would be wise to cast...