#sinner

You may make some mistakes-but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you. ↗

— Joel Osteen

#got #inside #make #may #nature

I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many. ↗

— Saint Patrick

#despised #eyes #faithful #i #i am

Saints need sinners. ↗

— Alan Watts

#saints #sinners

I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#definition #goes #i #i wish #me

By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#before #born #bring #children #disobedience

The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner. ↗

— Max von Sydow

#being #felt #had #i #like

It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner. ↗

— Giovanni Guareschi

#right #sin #sinner

No matter how many sins you make or how slow you travel back toward God's valley, you are still way ahead of a person who never made a mistake and doesn't know what it is like to climb out of a pit of shame and rise above their temptations. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#daughters-of-god #forgiveness #god #grace #growth

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#future #past #saint #sinner

I felt for the tormented whirlwinds Damned for their carnal sins Committed when they let their passions rule their reason. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#inferno #italian-medieval-poetry #lustful #passion #reason