#sinners

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#does #god #makes #more #nothing

However, we all sin by omission. Therefore, we are all sinners in constant need of a 'Savior'." ~R. Alan Woods [2010] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#omission #r-alan-woods #savior #sinners #sins

In my opinion, we will always be sinners in need of our Savior, Jesus Christ." ~R. Alan Woods [2007] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#redemption #savior #sinners #r-alan-woods

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

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

It may be that Christians, notwithstanding corporate worship, common prayer, and all their fellowship in service, may still be left to their loneliness. The final break-through to fellowship does not occur, because, though they have fellowship with one another as believers and as devout people, they do not have fellowship as the undevout, as sinners. The pious fellowship permits no one to be a sinner. So everybody must conceal his sin from himself and from the fellowship. We dare not be sinners. Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin, living in lies and hypocrisy. The fact is that we are sinners! ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#fellowship #honesty #humility #hypocrisy #sin

God can deliver you so well that some people won’t believe your testimony. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#adversity #battles #come-full-circle-in-life #life-challenges #life-missions

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

— Frederick William Faber

#eloquence #kindness #learning #more #sinners

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