66 Sin Quotes to Help Us Reflect and Seek Repentance

Quotes on sin

Quotes about sin

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• "Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior." ~ Charles Spurgeon

• "We have to recognize that sin is a fact, not a defect; sin is red-handed mutiny against God. Either God or sin must die in my life...If sin rules in me, God's life in me will be killed; if God rules in me, sin in me will be killed." ~ Oswald Chambers

• "Be killing sin or it will be killing you." ~ John Owen

• "One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner." ~ John Bunyan

• "The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible." ~ Dwight L. Moody

• "Sin always finds it's root in our own selfish desires and self-gratification." ~ Joseph Campbell

• "There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous." ~ Blaise Pascal

• "Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden, but it is forbidden because it is hurtful." ~ Benjamin Franklin

• "Sin is essentially a departure from God." ~ Martin Luther

• "You will always know whether you are delivered from the guilt of sin by answering this question: Am I delivered from the love of sin?" ~ Charles Spurgeon

• "We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin." ~ C. S. Lewis

• "The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?" ~ William Shakespeare

• "The knowledge of my sin is half-repentance." ~ Bayard Taylor

Bible quotes about sin

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• “But if you do not forgive others their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.” Matthew 6:15

• “Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.” Psalm 32:1

• “And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.” Mark 11:25

• "Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, 'Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?' Jesus answered, 'I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.' " Matthew 18:21-22

• “For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.” Matthew 6:14

• “Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.” 1 Corinthians 6:9-10

• “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:9

• “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.” Romans 3:23-24

• “Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.” Colossians 3:5

• “What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? By no means!” Romans 6:15

• “If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over.” Matthew 18:15

• “Direct my footsteps according to your word; let no sin rule over me.” Psalm 119:133

• “Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.” Psalm 51:1-2

• “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.” 1 Peter 4:8

• “He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.” 1 Peter 2:24

Scarlet Letter sin quotes

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Quotes about Dimmesdale hiding his sin

• "If thou feelest it to be for thy soul's peace, and that thy earthly punishment will thereby be made more effectual to salvation, I charge thee to speak out the name of thy fellow-sinner and fellow-sufferer!" (3.26)

• “Thus the young and pure would be taught to look at her, with the scarlet letter flaming on her breast,—at her, the child of honorable parents,—at her, the mother of a babe, that would hereafter be a woman, —at her, who had once been innocent, —as the figure, the body, the reality of sin.” (5.1)

• “The scarlet letter burned on Hester Prynne's bosom. Here was another ruin, the responsibility of which came partly home to her.” (14.9)

• "What evil have I done the man?" asked Roger Chillingworth again. (14.16)

• "Had I one friend, —or were it my worst enemy! —to whom, when sickened with the praises of all other men, I could daily betake myself, and be known as the vilest of all sinners, methinks my soul might keep itself alive thereby. Even thus much of truth would save me! But now, it is all falsehood! —all emptiness! —all death!" (17.18)

• "We are not, Hester, the worst sinners in the world. There is one worse than even the polluted priest! That old man's revenge has been blacker than my sin. He has violated, in cold blood, the sanctity of a human heart. Thou and I, Hester, never did so!" (17.31)

Roger Chillingworth sin quotes

• "What evil have I done the man?" asked Roger Chillingworth again. (14.16)

• "With the superstition common to his brotherhood, he fancied himself given over to a fiend, to be tortured with frightful dreams, and desperate thoughts, the sting of remorse, and despair of pardon; as a foretaste of what awaits him beyond the grave. But it was the constant shadow of my presence!—the closest propinquity of the man whom he had most vilely wronged!--and who had grown to exist only by this perpetual poison of the direst revenge! Yea, indeed!—he did not err!—there was a fiend at his elbow! A mortal man, with once a human heart, has become a fiend for his especial torment!" (14.18)

• "Thou hast escaped me!" [Chillingworth] repeated more than once. "Thou hast escaped me!"

• "May God forgive thee!" said the minister. "Thou, too, hast deeply sinned!" (23.28-29)

Hester Prynne sin quotes

• "Be it sin or no," said Hester Prynne bitterly, as she still gazed after him, "I hate the man!"

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• "Yes, I hate him!" repeated Hester, more bitterly than before. "He betrayed me! He has done me worse wrong than I did him!" (15.2-4)

• “Hester Prynne was now fully sensible of the deep injury for which she was responsible to this unhappy man, in permitting him to lie for so many years, or, indeed, for a single moment, at the mercy of one, whose purposes could not be other than malevolent.” (17.23)

Consequences of sin quotes

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• "There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all." ~ Hosea Ballou

• "Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices." ~ Alfred Armand Montapert

• "Temptation can be tormenting, but remember: The torment of temptation to sin is nothing to compare with the torment of the consequences of sin. Remorse and regret cannot compensate for sin....though sins can be forgiven immediately - the consequences can last a lifetime" ~ Edwin Louis Cole

• "If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character." ~ Frederick William Robertson

• "But I didn’t realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people." ~ Sigrid Undset

• "Repentance out of mere fear is really sorrow for the consequences of sin, sorrow over the danger of sin — it bends the will away from sin, but the heart still clings. But repentance out of conviction over mercy is really sorrow over sin, sorrow over the grievousness of sin — it melts the heart away from sin. It makes the sin itself disgusting to us, so it loses its attractive power over us. We say, ‘this disgusting thing is an affront to the one who died for me. I’m continuing to stab him with it!’" ~ Timothy Keller

• "Sin is the willful transgression of divine law. The Atonement of Jesus Christ is the gift of God to His children to correct and overcome the consequences of sin. The gift of the Atonement of Jesus Christ provides us at all times and at all places with the blessings of repentance and forgiveness." ~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf

• "My Christian brethren, if the crowd of difficulties which stand between your souls and God succeed in keeping you away, all is lost. Right into the Presence you must force your way, with no concealment, baring the soul with all its ailments before Him, asking, not the arrest of the consequences of sin, but the cleansing of the conscience " from dead works to serve the living God," so that if you must suffer, you will suffer as a forgiven man." ~ Frederick William Robertson

• "Many are convinced, who are not truly enlightened; are afraid of the consequences of sin, though they never saw its evil; have a seeming desire of salvation, which is not founded upon a truly spiritual discovery of their own wretchedness, and the excellency of Jesus." ~ John Newton

Pride sin quotes

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• "Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind." ~ C. S. Lewis

• "Pride is a sin that can readily be seen in others but is rarely admitted in ourselves." ~ Ezra Taft Benson

• "Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies." ~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin

• "There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance." ~ John C. Maxwell

• "As long as you are proud, you cannot know God." ~ C. S. Lewis

• "And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility." ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• "According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride." ~ C. S. Lewis

• "In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin." ~ Ezra Taft Benson

• "Most of us think of pride as self-centeredness, conceit, boastfulness, arrogance, or haughtiness. All of these are elements of the sin, but the heart, or core, is still missing. The central feature of pride is enmity - enmity toward God and enmity toward our fellowmen." ~ Ezra Taft Benson

• "A person who is obsessed with Jesus knows that the sin of pride is always a battle. Obsessed people know that you can never be "humble enough," and so they seek to make themselves less known and Christ more known (Mt 5:16)." ~ Francis Chan

• "People who parade their holiness are operating dangerously close to the sin of pride." ~ Mardy Grothe

• "The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession." ~ Iris Murdoch

• "The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one." ~ Richard Chenevix Trench

• "I do think it imperative that you recover from fear of rejection. Forgive me, but that is the sin of pride, and you must avoid that particular manifestation of the sin if you are to reach the goal . . . you hope for." ~ John Farrar

• "No one wrote better about the sin of pride, the corruption of power and the redemption of love. I will miss you, Gabriel García Márquez." ~ Laila Lalami