Quotes on Sin – God's Fire

“Let us not forget that the law is good if we use it lawfully, and that by the law is the knowledge of sin. Let us bring the law to the front and press it on men’s attention. Let us expound and beat out the Ten Commandments, and show the length, and breadth, and depth, and height of their requirements. This is the way of our Lord in the Sermon on the Mount. We cannot do better than follow His plan. We may depend upon it, men will never come to Jesus, and stay with Jesus, and live for Jesus, unless they really know why they are to come, and what is their need. Those whom the Spirit draws to Jesus are those whom the Spirit has convinced of sin. Without thorough conviction of sin, men may seem to come to Jesus and follow Him for a season, but they will soon fall away and return to the world.” – J.C.Ryle (on “Sin” from “Holiness, Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots”)

“True repentance begins with KNOWLEDGE of sin. It goes on to work SORROW for sin. It leads to CONFESSION of sin before God. It shows itself before a person by a thorough BREAKING OFF from sin. It results in producing a DEEP HATRED for all sin.” – J.C. Ryle

“There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.” – Charles Spurgeon

“Unless repentance of sin is real in you, you will never take fast hold of the truth of God.” – Charles Spurgeon

“Sinning will make you leave off communion with God, or else communion with God will make you leave off sinning: one of the two things must occur.” – Charles Spurgeon

“There is no form of sinfulness to which you are addicted which Christ cannot remove.” – Charles Spurgeon

“Oh! tis terribly and solemnly true, that of all sinners some sanctuary sinners are the worst. Those who can dive deepest into sin, and have the most quiet consciences and hardest hearts, are some who are to be found in Gods own house.” – Charles Spurgeon

“When once God the Holy Spirit applies the Law to the conscience, secret sins are dragged to light, little sins are magnified to their true size, and things apparently harmless become exceedingly sinful. Before that dread searcher of the hearts and trier of the reins makes His entrance into the soul, it appears righteous, just, lovely, and holy; but when He reveals the hidden evils, the scene is changed. Offences which were once styled peccadilloes, trifles, freaks of youth, follies, indulgences, little slips, etc., then appear in their true colour, as breaches of the Law of God, deserving condign punishment.” – Charles Spurgeon

“For the most part our preachers seem afraid to insist upon the utter ruin and total depravity of human nature. This is a fatal defect in any preaching: sinners will never be brought to see their need of a Saviour until they realize their lost condition, and they will never discover their lost condition until they learn that they are dead in sin.” ~ Arthur Pink

“It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.” – A. W. Pink

“Sin is the greatest power in the world, with one exception, and this is the power of God.” – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“It is not surprising that the cross has been discounted by modern theologians; it is because they have started with the love of God without His holiness.” – Martyn Lloyd-Jones

“If we all loved God the way He loves us sin would be eternally extinguished.” ~ Randy & Trena Reed

“Am I becoming more and more in love with God as a holy God, or with the conception of an amiable Being who says, ‘Oh well, sin doesn’t matter much’?” – Oswald Chambers

“The holiest person is one who is most conscious of what sin is.” – Oswald Chambers

“As we grow in holiness, we grow in hatred of sin; and God, being infinitely holy, has an infinite hatred of sin.” – Jerry Bridges

“Before I preach love, mercy, and grace, I must preach sin, law, and judgement.” – John Wesley

“The world needs Christians who don’t tolerate the complacency of their own lives.” – Francis Chan

“On the contrary, as God is holy, all holy, only holy, altogether holy, and always holy, so sin is sinful, all sinful, only sinful, altogether sinful, and always sinful (Genesis 6.5). In my flesh, there dwelleth no good thing (Romans 7.18). As in God there is no evil, so in sin there is no good. God is the chiefest of goods and sin is the chiefest of evils. As no good can be compared with God for goodness, so no evil can be compared with sin for evil.” – Ralph Venning

“You know, we live in a day when we are more afraid of holiness than we are of sinfulness.” – Leonard Ravenhill

“There’s one thing we need above everything else; it’s something we don’t talk about these days. We need a mighty avalanche of conviction of sin.” – Leonard Ravenhill

“Without holiness, no one shall see the Lord. Jesus didn’t die to save us from hell. That’s a fringe benefit! He died to get total occupation of us. To be holy in speech… in actions… in everything. We want to give God our lousy sins. What do you think He does with them? He wants your will… He wants that career of yours … He wants that selfish heart not to live in selfishness.” – Leonard Ravenhill

“Any place where a person sins, he puts handles on his soul for satan to grasp. Repentance gets rid of the handles.” A. W. Tozer

“There was a time when the church swung over to hell, judgement and sin. All she talked about was the justice of God. Consequently God was looked at as a tyrant ….Over on the other side is defining God solely as a God of love. God is love is our main text now; and so we have not a God of justice, but a sentimental, spineless God. ‘God is love and love is God, and God is all in all’. Pretty soon we have not a thing left but theological cotton candy – nothing but sweetness – because we have magnified the love without remembering that God is just. If we project just this side of God, we only have the weak sentimentalist of the modernists and the liberals.” – A.W.Tozer

“Let us get this straight! Jesus Christ does not offer you salvation as though it is a decoration or a bouquet or some addition to your wardrobe. Those who insist the Lord humour them, letting them continue on in their sin, are fools! ” – A. W. Tozer

“We are too nice, too tolerant, too anxious to be popular, and too quick to make excuses for sin and its many forms. God’s people should stand up for God!” – A. W. Tozer

“The holy man is not one who cannot sin. A holy man is one who will not sin.” – A. W. Tozer

“Listen, I’m against sin. I’ll kick it as long as I’ve got a foot, I’ll fight it as long as I’ve got a fist, I’ll butt it as long as I’ve got a head, and I’ll bite it as long as I’ve got a tooth. And when I’m old, fistless, footless, and toothless, I’ll gum it till I go home to glory and it goes home to perdition.” – Billy Sunday

“When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian. Sometimes people don’t seem to mind the sins of other people. Don’t seem to mind while boys and girls walk the streets of their city and know more of evil than grey-haired men. You are asleep.” – Billy Sunday

“Lord save us from off-handed, flabby-cheeked, brittle-boned, weak-kneed, thin-skinned, pliable, plastic, spineless, effeminate, sissified, three-carat Christianity.” – evangelist Billy Sunday (1916)

“One has to assume that there were at least some Christians in the churches that the seven letters mentioned in Revelation chapters 2 and 3 were written to. Yet Jesus EXPLICITLY told four of the seven to repent! Ephesus (Rev 2:5) ; Pergamum (Rev 2:16) ; Sardis (Rev 3:3) ; Laodicea (Rev 3:19) And it is implied in the letters to the other three churches. If Jesus told those Christians to repent why do we think that once we have accepted salvation that we no longer need to repent? Why do some preachers/teachers falsely imply that you don’t even need to repent to come to salvation in the first place? Beware of false preachers/teachers and their deceptions in saying that there is no need for (ongoing) repentance!” – Prophetic Healing-Evangelist Peter Farrar

From God’s Word:

“If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.” (1 John 1:8-9)

“Make every effort to live in peace with everyone and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.” (Hebrews 12:14)

“For the Scriptures say, ‘Be holy, because I am holy’.” (1 Peter 1:16)

“For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His love for those who fear Him; as far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us.” (Psalm 103:11-12)

“Come now, let us reason together, says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall become like wool.” (Isaiah 1:18)

“He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.” (1 John 2:2)

“In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace” (Ephesians 1:7)

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