Top 50 Sinners Quotes

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

Justification is God’s declaration that we, though guilty sinners, are righteous in God’s eyes.

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.

We all are originally sinners as Adam and in Adam, his leprosy cleaving faster to us than Naaman’s did to Gahazai, so that even the infant, before it has seen the light of the world, has this blemish inherent in its unborn members.

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.

Thus united to them in the fellowship of life, he will both understand the things revealed to them by God and, thenceforth escaping the peril that threatens sinners in the judgment, will receive that which is laid up for the saints in the kingdom of heaven.

Jesus is not the man at the top of the stairs; He is the man at the bottom, the friend of sinners, the savior of those in need of one. Which is all of us, all of the time.

A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.

It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.

At the cross, God was punishing Jesus for the sins of the world. God’s justice required a penalty from sinners, and in his unspeakable love, he paid the penalty himself in the person of his crucified Son.

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

We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.

Saint Mochua was the son of a certain Cronan, of noble race, and spent his youth in fighting. At the age of thirty, he laid aside his arms and burnt a house, with all its contents, which had been given to him by his uncle, saying that a servant of Christ should take nothing from sinners.

What people fail to understand coughing up sin and confessing it and giving it to the only one that can remove it, for crying out loud, we’re all 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.

To be Biblically balanced is to let our theology and preaching be proportioned by the Bible‘s radically disproportionate focus on God’s saving love for sinners seen and accomplished in the crucified and risen Christ.

I’d rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints – the sinners are much more fun.

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

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.

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

We are all sinners.

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.

I the chief of sinners am, but Jesus died for me.

Everywhere I go, everyone I talk with, everyone I think about – their salvation is what is on my mind. I love fellowship with Christians, but I can’t become preoccupied with the pleasure of fellowship when I know that sinners are sinking into hell.

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.

Even though God loves us, we still have a problem: sin. It’s important for us to learn how to confront sin and overcome it, because while God loves sinners, He hates sin. And He hates it because of what it does to us and how it keeps us from the abundant life Jesus died to give us.

Only by God’s mercy and grace. We aren’t worthy, we’re all sinners, but we are because of Jesus dying for us.

Eventually my courageous Mom did something we do all too rarely. She got on a plane and she came to see me in L.A. – this place where we’d always been told sinners lived. She came to see my gay friends.

I don’t hate homosexuals. I love them enough to tell them the truth: that God puts them in the category with other sinners.

We believed it was a Good vs Evil situation: that the WBC was right and everybody else was wrong, so there was no questioning. It was a very public war we were waging against the ‘sinners.’

Leading sinners to salvation en masse – or one by one – it is all the same. I eat it. I sleep it. I dream it. I speak it. I write it. I pray it. I weep it. I laugh it.

When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways.

In Pope Francis, I see a leader who lives every day in the image of Jesus. Under his guidance, the church is focused once again on providing comfort, compassion and salvation for sinners, the poor, and those who seek peace in an increasingly complex world. That’s my Catholicism.

We were old sinners – but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.

Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.

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.

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

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature‘s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

See, I think if it just became who’s sleeping with whom, then there’s no reason to prefer one party over the other, ’cause the truth is we’re all sinners.

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

We’re all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.

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.

There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.

Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.

Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike sharing the same ‘Love Boat‘ voyage into the dark beyond, a former sitcom star as deserving of pious send-off as Princess Diana.

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

We are perfect. According to God, we are perfect, yet we know that we are sinners. We believe in the fact that we are both saints and sinners at the same time as we live in this world.