#sinner

In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner. ↗

— Richard John Neuhaus

#calls #catholic #community #gay #hate

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you. ↗

— Martin Luther

#conscience #feelings #lord #more #preaches

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#grouch #hangs #his #jest #justification

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

At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be published in heaven as a miracle that the Lord Jesus should set His heart's love upon people like us. ↗

— Alistair Begg

#dust #god #monster #sinners #theology

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

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness. ↗

— Matthew Henry

#dreadful #god #his #his holiness #holiness

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#believe #create #holy #more #repent

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#does #here #hereafter #him #into

The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners. ↗