#sinners

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#being #being judged #condemnation #death #existence

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#look #pleasure #sinners

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning. ↗

— Frederick William Faber

#eloquence #kindness #learning #more #sinners

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same. ↗

— Jesus Christ

#even #good #love #love you #same

The natural response of the old-timers is to build a strong moral wall against the outside. This is where the world starts to be painted in black and white, saints inside, and sinners outside the wall. ↗

— Mary Douglas

#black #black and white #build #inside #moral

Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever. ↗

— Jupiter Hammon

#bible #born #converted #forever #miserable

Therefore, don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross; for we see on the other side, they may be like the hardened one, and reproach death itself. ↗

— Elias Hicks

#cross #death #hardened #itself #like

My confession begins," Father S said, "as the confessions of many men begin - with three words" "Father forgive me?" Michael hazarded a guess. Father S signed. "I met Eleanor. ↗

— Tiffany Reisz

#the-original-sinners #tiffany-reisz #forgiveness

To me it seems as plain as can be that the Bible declares that all the wicked will God destroy; again, that those who, during the Millennial age when brought to a knowledge of the truth, shall prove willful sinners will be punished with everlasting destruction. ↗

— Charles Taze Russell

#age #bible #brought #declares #destroy

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun. ↗

— Billy Joel

#fun #i #laugh #more #much