Quotes on Sin & Temptation

God showed me I was a dreadful sinner, but still I wanted to have my own way about it.

A man does not get converted without having the conviction of sin.

To Thy grace I ascribe it, and to Thy mercy, that Thou hast melted away my sins as it were ice.

To me, however, it seems certain that every lie is a sin, though it makes a great difference with what intention and on what subject one lies.

As, then, the soul even now finds it impossible to desire unhappiness, so in future it shall be wholly impossible for it to desire sin.

After the fall, however, a more abundant exercise of God’s mercy was required, because the will itself had to be freed from the bondage in which it was held by sin and death.

Our Lord Jesus did not die for imaginary sins, but His heart's blood was spilt to wash out deep crimson stains, which nothing else can remove.

Jesus Christ, made sin for me, was what I saw, and that sight gave me rest.

Jesus did not die for our righteousness, but He died for our sins.

Christ and the believing sinner are in the same boat: unless Jesus sinks, the believer will never drown.

Faith is the linen which binds the plaster of Christ's reconciliation to the sore of our sin.

Not one sin is to be spared, but against the whole is to be proclaimed an utter and entire war of extermination.

Do you think that we are forever to be the drudges and the slaves of sin, sighing for freedom, and yet never able to escape from its bondage?

God will not lead you into temptation, but you may lead yourself.

Not only does God bear with sin, but in the person of his Son, he bore and removed it.

The Lord Jesus was unto us a covering for sin, and so a covert from wrath.

Christ Jesus is the only escape for a sinner pursued by the fiery wrath of God, and we would have the believer remember this.

Jesus identified Himself with His people, and therefore their sin was laid upon Him, and the sword of the Lord awoke against Him.

Our Lord Jesus did not handle sin with the golden tongs, but He bore it on His own shoulders.

God sent Him, that He might bear the punishment, due to us guilty sinners.

A hearty desire for the conversion of sinners, and earnest prayer for it to the Lord, is quite scriptural; but it is unscriptural to expect the conversion of the whole world.

Jesus came not to save painted but real sinners; but he has saved us, and will surely make it manifest.

Man's heart is so darkened by the Fall, and by personal sinfulness, that otherwise he would regard sin as a very small matter.

When sin is put away the Spirit again lifts up His countenance upon us, and peace fills the heart.

The sin of neglected communion may be forgiven, and yet the effect remain permanently; as wounds when healed often leave a scar behind.

A man may be in God’s favour though he feel sin; but not if he yields to it.

Abhor sin far more than death or hell; abhor sin itself, far more than the punishment of it.

It is love excluding sin; love filling the heart, taking up the whole capacity of the soul.

The body dies when it is separated from the soul; the soul, when it is separated from God.

We know everyone who has peace with God, through Jesus Christ, has power over all sin.

The world is the men that know not God, that neither love nor fear him.

Sin is then overcome, but it is not rooted out; it is conquered, but not destroyed.

The subtlety of Satan appears in its height, in his managing of persons with respect to this sin.

True peace of heart, then, is found in resisting passions, not in satisfying them.