#sinners

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

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

— Gloria Swanson

#concerned #down #gossip #gunning #industry

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

Two classes of people make up the world: those who have found God, and those who are looking for Him - thirsting, hungering, seeking! And the great sinners came closer to Him than the proud intellectuals! Pride swells and inflates the ego; gross sinners are depressed, deflated and empty. They, therefore, have room for God. God prefers a loving sinner to a loveless 'saint'. Love can be trained; pride cannot. The man who thinks that he knows will rarely find truth; the man who knows he is a miserable, unhappy sinner, like the woman at the well, is closer to peace, joy and salvation than he knows. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#humility #intellectuals #sinners #life

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