One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.
Louis Kronenberger

It is one thing for sin to live in us; it is another for us to live in sin.
John Murray

God sent me 1,000 hints that he didn’t want me to keep doing what I was doing. But I didn’t listen, so he set off a nuclear bomb.
Jack Abramoff

Creation had been given to men as a clean window through which the light of God could shine into men’s souls. Sun and moon, night and day, rain, the sea, the crops, the flowering tree, all these things were transparent. They spoke to man not of themselves only but of Him who made them. Nature was symbolic. But the progressive degradation of man after the fall led the Gentiles further and further from this truth. Nature became opaque.
Thomas Merton

It is the case of most sinners to think themselves freest from those sins to which they are most enslaved.
Richard Baxter

Sin cannot be reduced to manageable proportions.
Sinclair Ferguson

Gossip is the art of confessing other people’s sins.
Unknown

Oh, how horrible our sins look when they are committed by someone else.
Charles Swindoll

Strange, though I am saved from sin, I am not saved from sinning.
Martin Luther

We must be watchful, especially in the beginning of the temptation.  The enemy is then more easily overcome, if he is not permitted in any wise to enter the door of our hearts, but is resisted without the gate at his first knock…First there comes to the mind a bare thought of evil, then a strong imagination thereof, afterward delight, and an evil motion, and then consent.  And so little by little our wicked enemy gets complete entrance, because he is not resisted in the beginning.  And the longer a man is slow to resist, so much the weaker does he become daily in himself, and the enemy stronger against him.
Thomas a Kempis

As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature.
Charles Spurgeon

We are not sinners because we sin; we sin because we are sinners.
R. C. Sproul

To be sensible of our corruption and abhor our own transgressions is the first symptom of spiritual health.
J. C. Ryle

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. Augustine

The saints are the sinners who keep on trying.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Don’t try to deal with sin, for you are sure to lose. Deal with Christ; let him deal with your sin and you are sure to win.
Arthur Elfstrand

A man’s most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.
Thomas Brooks

I don’t just commit sin.  Apart from God, I am sinful.  My problem is not just what I do; it’s who I am without His nature.
Beth Moore

I have heard thousands of confessions, but never one of covetousness.
Francis Xavier

Let a man go to a psychiatrist and what does he become? An adjusted sinner. Let a man go to a physician and what does he become? A healthy sinner. Let a man achieve wealth and what does he become? A wealthy sinner. Let a man join a church, sign a card, and turn over a new leaf and what does he become? A religious sinner. But let him go in sincere repentance and faith to the foot of Calvary’s cross, and what does he become? A new creature in Jesus Christ, forgiven, reconciled, with meaning and purpose in his life and on the way to marvelous fulfillment in God’s will.
Unknown

Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren’t looking!
Billy Sunday

To realize God’s presence is the one sovereign remedy against temptation.
Francois Fenelon

No man can break any of the Ten Commandments.  He can only break himself against them.
G. K. Chesterton

A story is told of old Thomas K. Beecher, who could not bear deceit in any form.  Finding that a clock in his church was habitually too fast or too slow he hung a placard on the wall above it, reading in large letters:  ”DON’T BLAME MY HANDS- THE TROUBLE LIES DEEPER.”  That is where the trouble lies with us when our hands do wrong, or our feet, or our lips, or even our thoughts.  The trouble lies so deep that only God’s miracle power can deal with it.  Sin indeed goes deep, but Christ goes deeper.
The Elim Evangel