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God bestows His blessings without discrimination. The followers of Jesus are children of God, and they should manifest the family likeness by doing good to all, even to those who deserve the opposite.
- F.F. Bruce
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What we count the ills of life are often blessings in disguise, resulting in good to us in the end. Though for the present not joyous but grievous, yet, if received in a right spirit, they work out fruits of righteousness for us at last.
- Matthew Henry
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When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place.
- C.S. Lewis
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Jesus is moved to happiness every time He sees that you appreciate what He has done for you. Grip His pierced hand and say to Him, "I thank Thee, Savior, because Thou has died for me." Thank Him likewise for all the other blessings He has showered upon you from day to day. It brings joy to Jesus.
- Ole Hallesby
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I believe with all my heart that standing up for America means standing up for the God who has so blessed our land. We need God's help to guide our nation through stormy seas. But we can't expect Him to protect America in a crisis if we just leave Him over on the shelf in our day-to-day living.
- Ronald Reagan
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Concentrate on counting your blessings and you'll have little time to count anything else.
- Woodrow Kroll
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God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.
- Peter Marshall
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The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. I do not think more of myself or less of myself. Instead, I think of myself less.
- Tim Keller
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Lord, if You bless me, I’ll thank You; but if You don’t, I’ll be thankful for what I have.
- Phil Robertson
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Yes, let God be the Judge. Your job today is to be a witness.
- Warren Wiersbe
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
- Augustine
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However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
- John Calvin
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When we get full of this grace we want to see every one blessed--we want to see all the churches blessed, not only all the churches here, but in the whole country. That was the trouble with Christ's disciples. He had hard work to make them understand that His gospel was for every one, that it was a stream to flow out to all nations of the earth. They wanted to confine it to the Jews, and He had to convince them that it was for every living being.
- Dwight L. Moody
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God will either give you what you ask or something far better.
- Robert Murray McCheyne
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Sin came through the pride of Lucifer and salvation came through the humility of Jesus.
- Zac Poonen
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After giving something to God, you are no longer accountable for it. Your blessing is based on your giving, not on what others do with the gift.
- Ed Cole
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It is a fact that the Lord Jesus has already died for you. It is also a fact that you have already died with the Lord Jesus. If you do not believe in your death with Christ, you will not be able to receive the effectiveness of death with Him - freedom from sin.
- Watchman Nee
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We must do our business faithfully; without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to GOD mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from Him.
- Brother Lawrence
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It takes a man of God, with the Word of God, and the Spirit of God, to make the children of God, for the glory of God.
- Jack Wellman
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If we understand what lies ahead for those who do not know Christ, there will be a sense of urgency in our witness.
- David Jeremiah
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God has a way of giving by the cartloads to those who give away by shovelfuls.
- Charles Spurgeon
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There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
- Blaise Pascal
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An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.
- A. W. Tozer
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Did you never run for shelter in a storm, and find fruit which you expected not? Did you never go to God for safeguard, driven by outward storms, and there find unexpected fruit?
- John Owen
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His voice leads us not into timid discipleship but into bold witness.
- Charles Stanley
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I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
- Zig Ziglar
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Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin.
- Leonard Ravenhill
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To call yourself a child of God is one thing. To be called a child of God by those who watch your life is another thing altogether.
- Max Lucado
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Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.
- Isaac Watts
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Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
- Blaise Pascal
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Do you mortify? Do you make it your daily work? Be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.
- John Owen
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Christ frequently gives us the desires of our heart, though not at the peculiar time we desired, but a better time.
- Robert Murray McCheyne
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! Labor is life.
- Thomas Carlyle
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Sinning will keep you from the Bible but the Bible will keep you from sinning.
- Jack Wellman
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I refuse to become panicky, as I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart.
- Alan Redpath
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Just because creation gives God great delight, we cannot say that He is worshipping it; rather, He is worshipping Himself as He sees His goodness bringing such blessing to people that they give their heartfelt thanks and praise to Him for the benefits He imparts.
- Daniel Fuller
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Enjoy the blessings of this day, if God sends them; and the evils of it bear patiently and sweetly: for this day only is ours, we are dead to yesterday, and we are not yet born to the morrow.
- Jeremy Taylor
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Statistics suggest that when customers complain, business owners and managers ought to get excited about it. The complaining customer represents a huge opportunity for more business.
- Zig Ziglar
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We need to give a little extra thought to our words so that they will be life-giving and helpful to our hearers.
- Crystal McDowell
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Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want.
- Martin Luther
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It is only deliberate, willful sin that has not been confessed and forgiven that makes us feel that God has forsaken us, for that sin causes Him to hide His face from us.
- Alan Redpath
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We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need.
- John Calvin
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The Church is the Body of Christ, and the Spirit is the Spirit of Christ. He fills the Body, directs its movements, controls its members, inspires its wisdom, supplies it's strength. He guides into truth, sanctifies its agents, and empowers for witnessing. The Spirit has never abdicated His authority nor relegated His power.
- Samuel Chadwick
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Every day you are witnessing. What are you witnessing to? Your witness is the total package of your attitudes, character, and actions. It does not lie.
- Winkie Pratney
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You may look upon some providences once and again, and see little or nothing in them, but look "seven times," that is, meditate often upon them, and you will see their increasing glory, like that increasing cloud (1 Kings 18:44).
- John Flavel
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Let's not bless others just to receive a blessing in return from them.
- Victoria Thomas Pollar
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The private and personal blessings we enjoy - the blessings of immunity, safeguard, liberty and integrity - deserve the thanksgiving of a whole life.
- Jeremy Taylor
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Worship is giving God the best that He has given you. Be careful what you do with the best you have. Whenever you get a blessing from God, give it back to Him as a love gift. Take time to meditate before God and offer the blessing back to Him in a deliberate act of worship. If you hoard a thing for yourself, it will turn into spiritual dry rot, as the manna did when it was hoarded. God will never let you hold a spiritual thing for yourself; it has to be given back to Him that He may make it a blessing to others.
- Oswald Chambers
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The only thing of our very own which we contribute to our salvation is the sin which makes it necessary.
- William Temple
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Gentlemen, I have lived a long time and am convinced that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid? I move that prayer imploring the assistance of Heaven be held every morning before we proceed to business.
- Assorted Authors
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It is because of the hasty and superficial conversation with God that the sense of sin is so weak and that no motives have power to help you to hate and flee from sin as you should.
- A. W. Tozer
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In the rush and noise of life, as you have intervals, step home within yourselves and be still. Wait upon God, and feel His good presence; this will carry you evenly through your day's business.
- William Penn
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A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.
- Augustine
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A person who is not being purified from sin has no claim on being saved from it.
- John MacArthur
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It is not only that sin consists in doing evil, but in not doing the good that we know.
- Harry Ironside
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There are three things which the true Christian desires in respect to sin: Justification, that it may not condemn; sanctification, that it may not rein; and glorification, that it may not be.
- Richard Cecil
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There are only two kinds of persons: those dead in sin and those dead to sin.
- Leonard Ravenhill
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God desires for you to be involved in drawing people to His Word through a dedicated life to Him and an active witness for Him.
- Paul Chappell
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Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God.
- Martin Luther
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One great power of sin is that it blinds men so that they do not recognize its true character.
- Andrew Murray
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There is no sin in the whole catalogue of sins you can name but Christ will deliver you from it perfectly.
- Dwight L. Moody
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Are we willing to publicly confess our allegiance to God and His ability to save?
- Crystal McDowell
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The grace that has freed us from bondage to sin is desperately needed to free us from our bondage to materialism.
- Randy Alcorn
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It is the signature of the Holy Ghost upon our work and witness that makes all the difference.
- Duncan Campbell
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Love flows from the denial of the self life. Blood shedding is the source of blessing.
- Watchman Nee
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Eternal life means more than mere future blessing to be enjoyed by believers; it is equally a kind of spiritual ability.
- Watchman Nee
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And the longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?
- Richard Baxter
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All our discontents about what we want appear to me to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
- Assorted Authors
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The Christian needs to walk in peace, so no matter what happens they will be able to bear witness to a watching world.
- Henry Blackaby
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There are no easy steps to witnessing! No painless, unembarrassing methods! You must bring men to see that they are filthy sinners under the wrath of God who must flee to Christ for mercy. That is offensive. And there is no way to coat it with honey.
- Walter J. Chantry
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He that boasts of being one of God's elect, while he is willfully and habitually living in sin, is only deceiving himself, and talking wicked blasphemy.
- J. C. Ryle
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The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.
- William Booth
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The time of business does not differ with me from the time of prayer; and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were on my knees.
- Brother Lawrence
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A religion that does not permeate and purify and uplift and sanctify business and business relations is not the religion of Jesus Christ.
- Clovis G. Chappell
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Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of; in nothing on which you might not pray for the blessing of God; in nothing which you could not review with a quiet conscience on your dying bed; in nothing which you might not safely and properly be found doing if death should surprise you in the act.
- Richard Baxter
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Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing in it. Not to overcome sin is what ought to astonish us.
- Watchman Nee
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God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.
- Assorted Authors
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God bless the good-natured, for they bless everybody else.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Oh cursed sin! It was you who slew my dear Lord! For your sake He underwent all this! If your vileness had not been so great, His sufferings had not been so many. Cursed sin! You were the knife which stabbed Him! You the sword which pierced Him!
- John Flavel
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Often our influence in our communities extends to church programs, musicals, or weekly services. While those things can help present the Gospel, God desires for us to personally be influences on the world around us. Spreading the Gospel isn't solely the church's job; it's the job of every Christian.
- Paul Chappell
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Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
- Ronald Reagan
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There is no enemy can hurt us but by our own hands. Satan could not hurt us, if our own corruption betrayed us not. Afflictions cannot hurt us without our own impatience. Temptations cannot hurt us, without our own yieldance. Death could not hurt us, without the sting of our own sins. Sins could not hurt us, without our own impenitence.
- Joseph Hall
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Christ's life unfolds, in part, as we learn to appreciate the gifts He has given us. How easy it is to blame others for our unhappiness, but we are only unhappy when something other than Christ has become our life. (For example) The husband or wife who has Christ as their life, comes to their spousal relationship already satisfied. They do not come continually looking to made happy by another person's attention; they bring Christ's life to their spouse.
- Francis Frangipane
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Have you heard God's blessing in your inmost being? Are the words, 'You are my beloved child, in whom I delight' an endless source of joy and strength? Have you sensed, through the Holy Spirit, God speaking to you? That blessing- the blessing through the Spirit that is ours through Christ- is what Jacob received and it is the only remedy against idolatry. Only that blessing makes idols unnecessary. As with Jacob, we usually discover this only after a life of 'looking for blessings in all the wrong places.' It often takes an experience of crippling weakness for us to finally discover it. That is why so many of the most God-blessed people limp as they dance for joy.
- Tim Keller
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People pay attention when they see that God actually changes persons and sets them free. When a new Christian stands up and tells how God has revolutionized his or her life, no one dozes off. When someone is healed or released from a life-controlling bondage, everyone takes notice.
- Jim Cymbala
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Sense of sin may be often great, and more felt than grace; yet not be more than grace. A man feels the ache of his finger more sensibly than the health of his whole body; yet he knows that the ache of a finger is nothing so much as the health of the whole body.
- Thomas Adams
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"Amplius" means broader, fuller, wider. That is God's perpetual word to us in relation to filling of the Holy Spirit. We can never have enough to satisfy His yearning desire. When we have apprehended most, there are always unexpected supplies in store ready to be drawn upon.
- F.B. Meyer
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What can I give back to God for the blessings he's poured out on me? I'll lift high the cup of salvation - a toast to God!
- Bono
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Let us, then, have it fixed down in our minds that the sinfulness of man does not begin from without, but from within. It is not the result of bad training in early years. It is not picked up from bad companions and bad examples, as some weak Christians are too fond of saying. No! It is a family disease, which we all inherit from our first parents, Adam and Eve, and with which we are born.
- J. C. Ryle
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We must not forget that it wasn't the Jews that put him on the cross, and it wasn't the Romans. It was my sins, it was your sins, the sins of this world.
- Franklin Graham
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Further, Take heed that you faithfully perform the business you have to do in the world, from a regard to the commands of God; and not from an ambitious desire of being esteemed better than others.
- David Brainerd
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As long as your sin breaks your heart, as long as your disobedience makes you lie awake nights and wet your pillow in tears there is hope for you. But when you become contented with your wickedness, when you come to believe that it is the best possible for you, then you are in danger indeed.
- Clovis G. Chappell
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I do not know anything that would wake up Chicago better than for every man and woman here who loves Him to begin to talk about Him to their friends, and just to tell them what He has done for you. You have got a circle of friends. Go and tell them of Him.
- Dwight L. Moody
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Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.
- John Calvin
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Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful evil that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts the entire heart and eradicates every virtue.
- Francois Fenelon
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To deny that God seeks to bless his people is to envision a God who ignores his own recorded words.
- RM Harrington
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On the other hand, were we to permit to remain even the tiniest little sin which we know our conscience has condemned, we instantly would lose that perfect fellowship with God.
- Watchman Nee
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When sin exerts itself and we know its power and by its power we are held in bondage, surely our dire need is for God to deal with the cause, a sinful heart.
- Duncan Campbell
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It's a fact of earthly life that when God opens the windows of heaven to bless us, the devil opens the doors of hell to blast us. When God begins moving, the devil fires up all his artillery.
- Adrian Rogers
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Any battle for victory, power, and deliverance - from ourselves and from sin - which is not based constantly upon the gazing and the beholding of the Lord Jesus, with the heart and life lifted up to Him, is doomed to failure.
- Alan Redpath
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When we look at the whole scope of this story line, we see clearly that Christianity is not only about getting one's individual sins forgiven so we can go to heaven. That is an important means of God's salvation, but not the final end or purpose of it. The purpose of Jesus' coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it. It is not just to bring personal forgiveness and peace, but also justice and shalom to the world. God created both the body and soul, and the resurrection of Jesus shows that he is going to redeem both body and soul. The work of the Spirit of God is not only to save souls but also to care and cultivate the face of the earth, the material world.
- Tim Keller
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Soon we shall be up there with Christ. God did not mean us to be happy without Him; but God would first have us to be witnesses for Him down here, to hold out as much light as we can.
- G.V. Wigram
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God knows it all and is keeping a record even of those secrets we have repressed.
- Adrian Rogers
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He came to deliver us from our sinful dispositions, and create in us pure hearts, and when we have Him with us it will not be hard for us. Then the service of Christ will be delightful.
- Dwight L. Moody
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I'm against sin. I'll kick it as long as I've got a foot, and I'll fight it as long as I've got a fist. I'll butt it as long as I've got a head. I'll bite it as long as I've got a tooth. And when I'm old and fistless and footless and toothless, I'll gum it till I go home to Glory and it goes home to perdition!
- Billy Sunday
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Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin. Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
- Desiderius Erasmus
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We can be assured that each step deeper into the Lord's Presence will reveal areas in our hearts which need to be cleansed. Do not be afraid. When the Spirit shows you areas of sin, it is not to condemn you, but to cleanse you.
- Francis Frangipane
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The focus of Satan's efforts is always the same: to deceive us into believing that the passing pleasures of sin are more satisfying than obedience.
- Sam Storms
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Satan has access to the domain of darkness, but he can only occupy those areas where mankind, through sin, has allowed him.
- Francis Frangipane
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Now is the hour we should humbly prostrate ourselves before God, willing to be convicted afresh of our sins by the Holy Spirit.
- Watchman Nee
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The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
- Philip Yancey
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It is only deliberate, willful sin that has not been confessed and forgiven that makes us feel that God has forsaken us, for that sin causes Him to hide His face from us.
- Alan Redpath
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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We need to see people as dead in trespasses and sins, sinking into the pit of Hell without our loving Savior.
- Lee Roberson
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Sin is like a cancer that destroys step by step, sometimes so slowly we don't realize what's happening to us.
- David Jeremiah
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When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.
- Billy Sunday
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The great danger is to always single out some aspect of God's good creation and identify it, rather than alien intrusion of sin, as the villain.
- Tim Keller
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The least sin is unpardonable without this obedience and righteousness of Christ; and the greatest is pardonable by it.
- Ralph Erskine
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We are blessed to have one day a week for rest and relaxation.
- Crystal McDowell
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No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that.
- Alan Redpath
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If turning from your sins means to stop sinning, then people can only be saved if they stop sinning. And it is unlikely that anyone has ever been saved, since we don't know anyone who has ever stopped sinning.
- Curtis Hutson
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Feasts and business and pleasure and enjoyments seem great things to us, whilst we think of nothing else; but as soon as we add death to them they all sink into an equal littleness.
- William Law
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We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.
- Assorted Authors
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What an incredible witness it is to a lost and fearful society when the Christian acts like a child of God, living under the loving sovereignty of the Heavenly Father.
- Henry Blackaby
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I refuse to become panicky, as I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart.
- Alan Redpath
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As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.
- John Greenleaf Whittier
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The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast.
- John Calvin
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Method is the very hinge of business; and there is no method without punctuality.
- Richard Cecil
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Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
- Thomas Fuller
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God forbid that I should travel with anybody a quarter of an hour without speaking of Christ to them.
- George Whitefield
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It is evident that our conversion is sound when we loathe and hate sin from the heart.
- Richard Sibbes
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While I was in Tibet I saw a Buddhist, a monk, who had lived for five or six years in a cave. When he went into the cave he had good eyesight. But because he stayed so long in the darkness his eyes grew weaker and weaker, and at last he became quite blind. It is just the same with us. If we do not use the blessings which we have received from God for His Glory, we are in danger of losing them forever.
- Sadhu Sundar Singh
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The truth is there are two great classes of sins - sins of the body, and sins of the disposition. The Prodigal Son may be taken as a type of the first, the Elder Brother of the second.
- Henry Drummond
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When Abraham offered the tithe and received a blessing, Levi was not yet born, nor even were his father and grandfather. Yet the Bible considers Abraham's tithe and blessing as Levi's.
- Watchman Nee
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You and your sins must separate or you and your God will never come together. No one sin may you keep; they must all be given up, they must be brought out like Canaanite kings from the cave and be hanged up in the sun.
- Charles Spurgeon
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The moment we notice our voice has turned harsh, we must stop instantly. If we are reluctant to say to our brethren, "I am wrong," then our spirit remains engulfed in its sin.
- Watchman Nee
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Sin is first pleasing, then it grows easy, then delightful, then frequent, then habitual, then confirmed; then the man is impenitent, then he is obstinate, then he is resolved never to repent, and then he is ruined.
- Robert Leighton
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You do not really care for God's mercy or His comfort either, so long as you live in any sin. And it is well that you do not; for you can have neither. Your peace will be like a river, when you put away your sin; but not one word of true peace, not one drop of true comfort, can you have till then.
- Alexander Whyte
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Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world.
- Charles Hodge
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The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns.
- Tim LaHaye
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In spiritual things, when God has raised a desire, He always gratifies it; hence the longing is prophetic of the blessing. In no case is the desire of the living thing excited to produce distress, but in order that it may seek and find satisfaction.
- Charles Spurgeon
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There is the seed of all sins - of the vilest and worst of sins - in the best of men.
- Thomas Brooks
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If we persist in holding on to something which God wants us to relinquish, sin shall have dominion over us, and our reckoning shall be futile.
- Watchman Nee
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All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.
- John Calvin
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It is not necessary that every single member of the body should become useless and weak before death occurs. A weakness of, or a blow upon, the heart or the brain will suffice to bring an end to life, however strong and healthy other parts of the body may be. Thus one sin by its poisonous effect on the mind and heart is sufficient to ruin the spiritual life not of one only, but of a whole family or nation, even of the whole race. Such was the sin of Adam.
- Sadhu Sundar Singh
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One great power of sin is that it blinds men so that they do not recognize its true character.
- Andrew Murray
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If I can easily discuss the shortcomings and the sins of any; if I can speak in a casual way even of a child's misdoings, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
- Amy Carmichael
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We poison the wine as He decants it into us; murder a melody He would play with us as the instrument. Hence all sin, whatever else it is, is sacrilege.
- C.S. Lewis
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The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.
- John Owen
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No vassalage is so ignoble, no servitude so miserable, as that of vice; mines and galleys, mills and dungeons, are words of ease compared to the service of sin; therefore, the bringing sinners to repentance is so noble, so tempting a design, that it drew even God himself from heaven to prosecute it.
- Richard Baxter
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Looking at the wound of sin will never save anyone. What you must do is look at the remedy.
- Dwight L. Moody
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Haste and rashness are storms and tempests, breaking and wrecking business; but nimbleness is a full fair wind blowing it with speed to the haven.
- Thomas Fuller
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Riches and the things that are necessary in life are not evil in themselves. And all of us face cares and troubles in this life. The sin comes in the time and energy we spend in pursuing these things, at the expense of neglecting Christ.
- David Wilkerson
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Sinners want their will to be done, and they will fight with whoever gets in their way. Consequently, sinners are much better at making war then they are at making peace, much better at hatred than they are at love. They are much better at causing division then they are at creating unity.
- Paul David Tripp
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Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.
- William Gurnall
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'Tis not for man to trifle; life is brief, and sin is here. We have no time to sport away the hours; all must be earnest in a world like ours.
- Horatius Bonar
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Christ is never fully valued, until sin is clearly seen. We must know the depth and malignity of our disease, in order to appreciate the great Physician.
- J. C. Ryle
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Sin is the act of the will, and is only possible when the will assents to some unholy influence.
- F.B. Meyer
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If loving God with one's whole being is the greatest commandment, then not to do so must be the greatest sin--indeed, the root of all sin.
- Dave Hunt
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Every one of our sinful actions has a suicidal power on the faculties that put that action forth. When you sin with the mind, that sin shrivels the rationality. When you sin with the heart or the emotions, that sin shrivels the emotions. When you sin with the will, that sin destroys and dissolves your willpower and your self-control. Sin is the suicidal action of the self against itself. Sin destroys freedom because sin is an enslaving power.
- Tim Keller
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No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that.
- Alan Redpath
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I once thought myself a good man, a man of high standards, and a man of strong moral fiber but I learned that even good men do bad things.
- RM Harrington
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The moment a man falls into sin, divine life ceases to flow, and his life becomes one of helplessness.
- Smith Wigglesworth
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Use sin as it will use you; spare it not, for it will not spare you; it is your murderer, and the murderer of the world: use it, therefore, as a murderer should be used. Kill it before it kills you. You love not death; love not the cause of death.
- Richard Baxter
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Sin will keep you from this Book or this Book will keep you from sin.
- Dwight L. Moody
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If every Christian is already considered a missionary, then all can stay put where they are, and nobody needs to get up and go anywhere to preach the gospel. But if our only concern is to witness where we are, how will people in unevangelized areas ever hear the gospel? The present uneven distribution of Christians and opportunities to hear the gospel of Christ will continue on unchanged.
- Assorted Authors
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When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess, THAT is Blessing!
- Watchman Nee
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Sin comes when we take a perfectly natural desire or longing or ambition and try desperately to fulfill it without God. Not only is it sin, it is a perverse distortion of the image of the Creator in us. All these good things, and all our security, are rightly found only and completely in Him.
- Augustine
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One great power of sin is that it blinds men so that they do not recognize its true character.
- Andrew Murray
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The labor and sweat of our brows is so far from being a curse, that without it our very bread would not be so great a blessing. If it were not for labor, men could neither eat so much, nor relish so pleasantly, nor sleep so soundly, nor be so healthful, so useful, so strong, so patient, so noble, nor so untempted.
- Jeremy Taylor
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I must confess that I never realize Christ's preciousness so much as when I feel myself still to be, apart from Him, an undeserving, hell-deserving sinner.
- Charles Spurgeon
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If sin is estrangement from God, this very estrangement is Death. It is a want of correspondence. If sin is selfishness, it is conducted at the expense of life. Its wages are Death--"he that loveth his life," said Christ, "shall lose it."
- Henry Drummond
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It is great folly to cast your sins upon Satan who tempted you, or upon your neighbor who provoked you; but it is a far greater sin, nay horrid blasphemy, to cast it upon God Himself. A greater affront than this cannot be offered to the infinite holiness of God.
- Thomas Boston
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If a child of God cherishes sin in his heart he is lending his mind to satanic spirits for their use.
- Watchman Nee
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It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.
- Charles Spurgeon
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If I had a brother who had been murdered, what would you think of me if I...daily consorted with the assassin who drove the dagger into my brother's heart; surely I too must be an accomplice in the crime. Sin murdered Christ; will you be a friend to it? Sin pierced the heart of the Incarnate God; can you love it?"
- Charles Spurgeon
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Opposition is not only evidence that God is blessing, but it is also an opportunity for us to grow.
- Warren Wiersbe
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None can hate [sin] but those that love the law of God; for all hatred comes from love. A natural man may be angry with his sin, but hate it he cannot; nay, he may leave it, but not loathe it; if he did, he would loathe all sin as well as any one sin.
- Abraham Wright
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The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!
- Henry Ward Beecher
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Love is proportional to hurt. God is love, so He is enormously grieved by our sins.
- Winkie Pratney
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You do not really care for God's mercy or His comfort either, so long as you live in any sin. And it is well that you do not; for you can have neither. Your peace will be like a river, when you put away your sin; but not one word of true peace, not one drop of true comfort, can you have till then.
- Alexander Whyte
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The extremity of its evil had passed beyond all struggle into some state which bore a horrible similarity to innocence.
- C.S. Lewis
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The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to [put to death] the indwelling power of sin.
- John Owen
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Our first problem is that our attitude towards sin is more self-centered than God-centered. We are more concerned about our own "Victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sin grieve the heart of God. We cannot tolerate failure in our struggle with sin chiefly because we are success oriented, not because we know it is offensive to God.
- Jerry Bridges
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No man living in any known sin is ever comforted of God. The Holy Ghost never yet spake one word of all His abounding consolations to any man so long as he lived in any actual sin, or in any neglect of known duty.
- Alexander Whyte
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God promises spectacular blessings to those of you who remain single in Christ, and He gives you and extraordinary calling for your life. To be single in Christ is, therefore, not a falling short of God's best, but a path of Christ-exalting, covenant-keeping obedience that many are called to walk.
- John Piper
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Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until it be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death.
- John Owen
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The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin.
- Watchman Nee
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We should therefore learn that the only good we have is what the Lord has given us gratuitously; that the only good we do is what He does in us; that it is not that we do nothing ourselves, but that we act only when we have been acted upon, in other words under the direction and influence of the Holy Spirit.
- John Calvin
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It is a great sin to think any sin little; but it is a greater sin to think the righteousness of Christ is not above all sin.
- Ralph Erskine
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This act of self-will on the part of the creature, which constitutes an utter falseness to its true creaturely position, is the only sin that can be conceived as the Fall.
- C.S. Lewis
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Subconsciously perhaps, we tend to think of certain sins as "mostly harmless"- especially if we've played with them for years and never been seriously bitten. ...What makes sin so heinous and grievous is that it is against God...for it violates His holy law and character.
- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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Sin is the dare of God's justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, the slight of His power, and the contempt of His love.
- John Bunyan
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Only by seeing our sin do we come to see the need for and wonder of grace. But exposing sin is not the same thing as unveiling and applying grace. We must be familiar with and exponents of its multifaceted power, and know how to apply it to a variety of spiritual conditions. Truth to tell, exposing sin is easier than applying grace; for, alas, we are more intimate with the former than we sometimes are with the latter. Therein lies our weakness.
- Sinclair B. Ferguson
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God often takes a course for accomplishing His purposes directly contrary to what our narrow views would prescribe. He brings a death upon our feelings, wishes, and prospects when He is about to give us the desire of our hearts.
- John Newton
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The sins of the godly are worse than others, because they bring a greater reproach upon religion. For the wicked to sin, there is no other expected from them; swine will wallow in the mire; but when sheep do so, when the godly sin, that redounds to the dishonor of the Gospel: "By this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme."
- Thomas Watson
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The vigor and power and comfort of our spiritual life depends on our mortification of deeds of the flesh.
- John Owen
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God denies a Christian nothing but with a design to give him something better.
- Richard Cecil
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Any battle for victory, power, and deliverance - from ourselves and from sin - which is not based constantly upon the gazing and the beholding of the Lord Jesus, with the heart and life lifted up to Him, is doomed to failure.
- Alan Redpath
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The peculiar feature of Death by Suicide is that it is not only self-inflicted but sudden. And there are many sins which must either be dealt with suddenly or not at all.
- Henry Drummond
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For as the sun darts its beams upon a dunghill, and yet is no way defiled by it; so God decrees the permission of sin... yet is not the author of sin.
- Thomas Boston
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You say "I am afraid I cannot hold out.' Well, Christ will hold out for you. There is no mountain that He will not climb with you if you will; He will deliver you from your besetting sin.
- Dwight L. Moody
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Nobody gets a blessing if they have cold feet and nobody ever got saved while they had toothache!
- William Booth
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There hath not one tear dropped from thy tender eye against thy lusts, the love of this world, or for more communion with Jesus Christ, but as it is now in the bottle of God; so then it shall bring forth such plenty of reward, that it shall return upon thee with abundance of increase.
- John Bunyan
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When men talk of a little hell, it is because they think they have only a little sin, and believe in a little Saviour; it is all little together. But when you get a great sense of sin, you want a great Saviour, and fell that, if you do not have Him, you will fall into a great destruction, and suffer a great punishment at the hands of the great God.
- Charles Spurgeon
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I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.
- Francis Schaeffer
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And indeed, there is no little sin, because there is no little God to sin against. In general, what to (humans) seems a small offense, to Him who knows the heart may appear a heinous crime.
- John Wesley
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If there be a man before me who says that the wrath of God is too heavy a punishment for his little sin, I ask him, if the sin be little, why does he not give it up?
- Charles Spurgeon
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I should as soon expect a farmer to prosper in business who contented himself with sowing his fields and never looking at them till harvest, as expect a believer to attain much holiness who was not diligent about his Bible reading, his prayers, and the use of his Sundays.
- J. C. Ryle
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To sin because mercy abounds is the devil's logic; he that sins because of God's mercy, shall have judgment without mercy. Mercy is not for them that sin and fear not, but for them that fear and sin not.
- Thomas Watson
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If God has given you but a small portion of the world, yet if you are godly He has promised never to forsake you (Heb. 13:5). Providence has ordered that condition for you which is really best for your eternal good. If you had more of the world than you have, your heads and hearts might not be able to manage it to your advantage.
- John Flavel
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God's people often erroneously think that they need a contrite spirit only at the time they repent and believe in the Lord or whenever they subsequently fall into sin. We should know, however, that God wishes us to keep our spirit in a state of contrition at all times. We ought never sin; yet we always should have sorrow for sin. The presence of God is felt in such a spirit.
- Watchman Nee
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When we ask of the Lord cooly, and not fervently, we do as it were, stop His hand, and restrain Him from giving us the very blessing we "pretend" that we are seeking.
- Charles Spurgeon
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It is impossible to live the life of a disciple without definite times of secret prayer. You will find that the place to enter in is in your business, as you walk along the streets, in the ordinary ways of life, when no one dreams you are praying, and the reward comes openly, a revival here, a blessing there.
- Oswald Chambers
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Give me 100 men who hate nothing but sin and love God with all their hearts and I will shake the world for Christ!
- John Wesley
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Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
- C.S. Lewis
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If ever you wish to see how great and horrid and evil sin is, measure it in your thoughts, either by the infinite holiness and Excellency of God, who is wronged by it; or by the infinite sufferings of Christ, who died to satisfy for it; and then you will have deeper apprehensions of its enormity.
- John Flavel
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I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else.
- C.S. Lewis
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The saints are sinners still. Our best tears need to be wept over, the strongest faith is mixed with unbelief, our most flaming love is cold compared with what Jesus deserves, and our intensest zeal still lacks the full fervor which the bleeding wounds and pierced heart of the crucified might claim at our hands. Our best things need a sin offering, or they would condemn us.
- Charles Spurgeon
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America is every bit as sin-sick as Sodom and Gomorrah ever were. We're rotting from within.
- John Hagee
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Sin is a violation of moral light, a refusal to conform to what is known and perceived.
- Assorted Authors
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To be freed from sin is not a difficult task when viewed in the light of the finished, perfect and complete salvation of God. A believer must proceed to learn the more advanced and perhaps more formidable and deeper lesson of abhorring his life.
- Watchman Nee
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The basic premise of the Constitution was a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances because man was perceived as a fallen creature and would always yearn for more power.
- Judge Roy Moore
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Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins, doesn't it? We can't be sinning in so many different ways if we are being quiet before God. Silence nourishes patience, charity, discretion.
- Elisabeth Elliot
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No man living in any known sin is ever comforted of God. The Holy Ghost never yet spake one word of all His abounding consolations to any man so long as he lived in any actual sin, or in any neglect of known duty.
- Alexander Whyte
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Many complain more of the sorrows to which they are born, than of the sins with which they were born; they tremble more at the vengeance of sin, than at the venom of sin; one delights them, the other scares them.
- William Secker
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As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is so sadly there, so abundantly there, that if you cannot detect it, you are deceived.
- Charles Spurgeon
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It is hardly credible of how great consequence before God the smallest things are; and what great inconveniences sometimes follow those which appear to be light faults. As a very little dust will disorder a clock, and the least sand will obscure our sight, so the least grain of sin which is upon the heart will hinder its right motion towards God.
- John Wesley
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Sin must indeed be exceeding sinful, when the Father must needs give His only Son to be the sinner's Friend!
- J. C. Ryle
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It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.
- Thomas a Kempis
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Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony.
- John Stott
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Be not too presumptuously sure in any business; for things of this world depend on such a train of unseen chances that if it were in man's hands to set the tables, still he would not be certain to win the game.
- George Herbert
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I inquired what iniquity was, and found it to be no substance, but the perversion of the will, turned aside from Thee, O God, the Supreme, towards these lower things.
- Augustine
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Sin disabled man to keep God's law, but it doth not enfranchise or disoblige him that he need not keep it.
- William Gurnall
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To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
- Augustine
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This also is a part of the Church's teaching, that the world was made and took its beginning at a certain time, and is to be destroyed on account of its wickedness.
- Origen
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The inward area is the first place of loss of true Christian life, of true spirituality, and the outward sinful act is the result.
- Francis Schaeffer
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Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
- John Bunyan
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As heat is opposed to cold, and light to darkness, so grace is opposed to sin. Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.
- Thomas Brooks
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For the Christian church (even in its recently popular seeker services) to ignore, euphemize, or otherwise mute the lethal reality of sin is to cut the nerve of the gospel. For the sober truth is that without full disclosure on sin, the gospel of grace becomes impertinent, unnecessary, and finally uninteresting.
- Cornelius Plantinga
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It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.
- Ravi Zacharias
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When you entertain any temptation to sin, you do as wisely as he who takes those into his house whom he knows are come on purpose to spoil him of what he esteems most precious.
- Assorted Authors
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I see Christ's heart yearning over poor sinners--not poor sinners' hearts yearning after Christ.
- G.V. Wigram
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I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread.
- Vance Havner
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Original sin may be defined as the hereditary corruption and depravity of our nature. This reaches every part of the soul, makes us abhorrent to God's wrath and produces in us what Scripture calls works of the flesh.
- John Calvin
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You will find indwelling sin frequently retarding you the most, when you are most earnest. When you desire to be most alive to God - you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.
- Charles Spurgeon
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A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
- G.K. Chesterton
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Love every man in spite of his falling into sin. Never mind the sins, but remember that the foundation of the man is the same - the image of God.
- John of Kronstadt
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Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come between our wants and supplies, and the goodness of God may be the more magnified in our eyes thereby.
- John Flavel
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I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.
- Billy Sunday
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What the Lord wants is that you shall go about the business to which He sets you, not asking for an easy post, nor grumbling at a hard one.
- Catherine Booth
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Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time.
- C.S. Lewis
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Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages.
- Thomas Watson
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Withhold no part of the precious truth, but speak what you know and declare what you have seen. Do not allow the toil or darkness or possible unbelief of your friends to dissuade you. Let us rise and march to the place of duty, and there declare what great things God has shown to our soul.
- Alistair Begg
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Sin to a believer is horrible, because it crucified the Saviour; he sees in every iniquity the nails and spear.
- Charles Spurgeon
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I am convinced that the first step towards attaining a higher standard of holiness is to realize more fully the amazing sinfulness of sin.
- J. C. Ryle
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If a man find the power of sin furiously at work within him, dragging his whole life downward to destruction, there is only one way to escape his fate--to take resolute hold of the upward power, and be borne by it to the opposite goal.
- Henry Drummond
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We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin.
- C.S. Lewis
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Sin is a deliberate treason against the majesty of God, an assault upon His crown, an insult offered to His throne.
- Charles Spurgeon
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Once let us see that sin is far viler, and far nearer to us, and sticks more closely to us than we supposed, and we shall be led, I trust and believe, to get nearer to Christ.
- J. C. Ryle
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He that falls into sin is a man, that grieves at it is a saint, that boasteth of it is a devil; yet some glory in that shame, counting the stains of sin the best complexion of their souls.
- Thomas Fuller
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No man taketh away sins (which the law, though holy, just and good, could not take away), but He in whom there is no sin.
- Assorted Authors
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The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.
- Dwight L. Moody
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No sin is small. It is against an infinite God, and may have consequences immeasurable. No grain of sand is small in the mechanism of a watch.
- Jeremy Taylor
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As regards public sins, experience has shown us that these can only be swept away by public confession. True, this amounts to crucifixion; but by our willful disobedience we have put the Lord of Glory to an open shame, and it is the price that we must pay.
- Jonathan Goforth
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Prostitution is the one calling in which at the beginning the only exertion is that of self-indulgence; all the prizes are at the commencement. It is the ever-new embodiment of the old fable of the sale of the soul to the Devil. The tempter offers wealth, comfort, excitement, but in return the victim must sell her soul, nor does the other party forget to exact his due to the uttermost farthing.
- William Booth
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After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.
- Billy Sunday
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The only charge they could bring against Christ down here was, that He was receiving bad men. They are the very kind of men He is willing to receive.
- Dwight L. Moody
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The blush is nature's alarm at the approach of sin, and her testimony to the dignity of virtue.
- Thomas Fuller
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Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!"
- Alexander MacLaren
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While the Christian commits a sin he hates it; whereas the hypocrite loves it while he forbears it.
- William Gurnall
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Admit sin, and you banish prayer. But, on the other hand, entertain, and encourage, and practice prayer, and sin will sooner or later flee before it.
- Alexander Whyte
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Our love for God and our appreciation of His love and forgiveness will be in proportion to the recognition of our sin and unworthiness.
- Dave Hunt
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We are wearied with our sins, and have no satisfaction in them; we go to bed tonight weary of our sinful labors, and we will rise freshly tomorrow to the same sinful labors again.
- Assorted Authors
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Christian, let God's distinguishing love to you be a motive to you to fear Him greatly. He has put His fear in your heart, and may not have given that blessing to your neighbor, perhaps not to your husband, your wife, your child, or your parent. Oh, what an obligation should this thought lay upon your heart to greatly fear the Lord! Remember also that this fear of the Lord is His treasure, a choice jewel, given only to favorites, and to those who are greatly beloved.
- John Bunyan
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All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt.
- C.S. Lewis
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What would you expect? Sin will not come to you, saying, "I am sin." It would do little harm if it did. Sin always seems "good, and pleasant, and desirable," at the time of commission.
- J. C. Ryle
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Little sins unrepented of will damn thee as well as greater. Not only great rivers fall into the sea, but little brooks; not only greater sins carry men to hell, but lesser; therefore do not think pardon easy because sin is small.
- Thomas Watson
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Leave not off praying to God: for either praying will make thee leave off sinning; or continuing in sin will make thee desist from praying.
- Thomas Fuller
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Admit sin, and you banish prayer. But, on the other hand, entertain, and encourage, and practice prayer, and sin will sooner or later flee before it.
- Alexander Whyte
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Godly sorrow shows itself to be ingenuous because when a Christian knows that he is out of the gun-shot of hell and shall never be damned, yet still he grieves for sinning against that free grace which has pardoned him.
- Thomas Watson
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He who talks upon plain gospel themes in a farmer's kitchen, and is able to interest the carter's boy and the dairymaid, has more of the minister in him than the prim little man who keeps prating about being cultured, and means by that - being taught to use words which nobody can understand.
- Charles Spurgeon
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Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.
- Origen
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We have employments assigned to us for every circumstance in life. When we are alone, we have our thoughts to watch; in the family, our tempers; and in company, our tongues.
- Hannah More
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I believe that gluttony is as much a sin in the sight of God as drunkenness.
- Charles Spurgeon
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We are to find as much bitterness in weeping for sin as we ever found sweetness in committing it.
- Thomas Watson
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If God put Adam out of this earthly Eden on account of one sin, do you think He will let us into the Paradise above with our tens of thousands sins upon us.
- Dwight L. Moody
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For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love.
- Richard Chenevix Trench
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No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
- Hosea Ballou
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Lust is a captivity of the reason and an enraging of the passions. It hinders business and distracts counsel. It sins against the body and weakens the soul.
- Jeremy Taylor
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Sins must be treated progressively one by one until all have been eliminated.
- Watchman Nee
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He sees all the twisted things about me that my fellow-men do not see (and I am glad!), and that He sees more corruption in me than that which I see in myself (which, in all conscience, is enough).
- J.I. Packer
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A blessed spirit is a mould ever more and more patient of the bright metal poured into it, a body ever more completely uncovered to the meridian blaze of the spiritual sun.
- C.S. Lewis
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Let your discourse with men of business be short and comprehensive.
- George Washington
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How often God takes away our consolations, that we may only love Him for Himself; and reveals our sinfulness, that we may better appreciate the completeness of his salvation!
- F.B. Meyer
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Look into the preaching Jesus did and you will find it was aimed straight at the big sinners on the front seats.
- Billy Sunday
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Sin is not weakness, it is a disease; it is red-handed rebellion against God and the magnitude of that rebellion is expressed by Calvary's cross.
- Oswald Chambers
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
- Tim Keller
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How many who died last century are in hell--who never committed half the sins some of you have!
- William Tiptaft
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The empyrean heaven saved not the angels who in that heaven committed sin. The terrestrial Paradise saved not Adam, who in that paradise committed sin. And dost thou presume to hope in the Church for impunity of those evils which in the Church you perpetrate?
- Assorted Authors
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He that hath so many and great causes of joy, and yet is in love with sorrow and peevishness, deserves to starve in the midst of plenty, and to want comfort, while he is encircled with blessings.
- Jeremy Taylor
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Every Christian will readily allow that sin is insidious, but it is one thing to recognize this in theory and quite another to be regulated by it in practice.
- A. W. Pink
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None can hate [sin] but those that love the law of God; for all hatred comes from love. A natural man may be angry with his sin, but hate it he cannot; nay, he may leave it, but not loathe it; if he did, he would loathe all sin as well as any one sin.
- Abraham Wright
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To labor to be acquainted with the ways, wiles, methods, advantages, and occasions of the success of sin, is the beginning to this warfare.
- John Owen
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We must keep from sin. If Christ has indeed saved us from sin, we cannot bear the thought of falling into it. Those who take delight in sin are not the children of God. If you are a child of God, you hate it with a perfect hatred, and your very soul loathes it.
- Charles Spurgeon
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For God's way of deliverance is altogether different from man's way. Man's way is to try to suppress sin by seeking to overcome it; God's way is to remove the sinner.
- Watchman Nee
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No sin is so great but the satisfaction of Christ and His mercies are greater; it is beyond comparison. Fathers and mothers in tenderest affections are but beams and trains to lead us upwards to the infinite mercy of God in Christ.
- Richard Sibbes
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Men are not sinners because they choose to sin; they choose to sin because they are sinners.
- Walter J. Chantry
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The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.
- Charles Spurgeon
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Nothing so clearly discovers a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.
- Augustine
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Should pain and suffering, sorrow, and grief, rise up like clouds and overshadow for a time the Sun of Righteousness and hide Him from your view, do not be dismayed, for in the end this cloud of woe will descend in showers of blessing on your head, and the Sun of Righteousness rise upon you to set no more forever.
- Sadhu Sundar Singh
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
- Augustine
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We cannot bear sin - when it is near us, we feel like a wretch chained to a rotting carcass; we groan to be free from the hateful thing.
- Charles Spurgeon
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God often gives in one brief moment that which He has for a long time denied.
- Thomas a Kempis
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Our prayers have stains in them, our faith is mixed with unbelief, our repentance is not so tender as it should be, our communion is distant and interrupted. We cannot pray without sinning, and there is filth even in our tears.
- Charles Spurgeon
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Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities.
- Isaac Watts
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For worship is, essentially, the reverse of sin. Sin began (and begins) when we succumb to the temptation, "You shall be as gods." We make ourselves the center of the universe and dethrone God. By contrast, worship is giving God his true worth; it is acknowledging Him to be the Lord of all things, and the Lord of everything in our lives. He is, indeed, the Most High God!
- Sinclair B. Ferguson
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Satan doth not tempt God's children because they have sin in them, but because they have grace in them. Had they no grace, the devil would not disturb them... Though to be tempted is a trouble, yet to think why you are tempted is a comfort.
- Thomas Watson
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The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
- Phillips Brooks
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Original sin is in us, like the beard. We are shaved today and look clean, and have a smooth chin; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long as we live. Nevertheless we are bound to resist it to our utmost strength, and to cut it down unceasingly.
- Martin Luther
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Will the sin of this nation stir us? We are a part of this day and time. We have a job to do. We ought to be stirred in our souls against sin and condemn it in every sermon. In every way possible, let people know your attitude.
- Lee Roberson
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Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of praying if it does not rectify conduct. It is in the very nature of things that we must quit praying, or quit bad conduct.
- E.M. Bounds
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At the moment of temptation, sin and righteousness are both very near the Christian; but, of the two, the latter is the nearer. Those alone labor effectively among men who impetuously fling themselves upward towards God.
- Charles H. Brent
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I believe that there is great hope and great potential for every country to be able to live and be protected with inalienable rights that I believe are God-given.
- Sarah Palin
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Let us remember how many Christian students there are who, by inconsistent and sinful lives and practices, are dragging the banner of Christ in the dust.
- John R. Mott
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Therefore it should be our care, if we would not yield to the sin, not to walk by, or sit at, the door of the occasion.
- William Gurnall
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We begin life with the natural, next we come into the spiritual; but then, when we have truly received the kingdom of God and His righteousness, the natural is added to the spiritual, and we are able to receive the gifts of His providence and the blessings of life without becoming centered in them or allowing them to separate us from Him.
- A. B. Simpson
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Of that intimate laughter between fellow professionals, which of all earthly powers is strongest to make men do very bad things before they are yet, individually, very bad men.
- C.S. Lewis
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The one is addressed generally to all intelligent creatures, and is therefore accessible to all men; the other is addressed to a special class of sinners, to whom God would make known His salvation. The one has in view to meet and supply the natural need of creatures for knowledge of their God; the other to rescue broken and deformed sinners from their sin and its consequences.
- B.B. Warfield
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I cannot see how any man deserves to be called "holy," who willfully allows himself in sins, and is not humbled and ashamed because of them.
- J. C. Ryle
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A sin...consists in doing, saying, thinking, or imagining anything that is not in perfect conformity with the mind and law of God
- J. C. Ryle
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He that avoideth not small faults, by little and little falleth into greater.
- Thomas a Kempis
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Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool!"
- Alexander MacLaren
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Keep God's covenant in your trials; hold you by His blessed word, and sin not; flee anger, wrath, grudging, envying, fretting; forgive a hundred pence to your fellow-servant, because your Lord hath forgiven you ten thousand talents: for, I assure you by the Lord, your adversaries shall get no advantage against you, except you sin, and offend your Lord, in your sufferings.
- Samuel Rutherford
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If you will not have death unto sin, you shall have sin unto death. There is no alternative. If you do not die to sin, you shall die for sin. If you do not slay sin, sin will slay you.
- Charles Spurgeon
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When sin lets us alone we may let sin alone; but as sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet, and its waters are for the most part deep when they are still, so ought our contrivances against it to be vigorous at all times and in all situations.
- John Owen
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It argues more grace to grieve for the sins of others than for our own. We may grieve for our own sins out of fear of hell, but to grieve for the sins of others is from a principle of love to God.
- Thomas Watson
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This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.
- Charles Spurgeon
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Temptation usually comes in through a door that has deliberately been left open.
- Assorted Authors
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