Pastors have historically understood their primary battle to be not the battle to build a big church, but the battle against the power of sin.
And the only thing to do with a sin is to confess, do penance and then, after some kind of decent interval, ask for forgiveness.
Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
To the predators... Weinstein, the stranger, the relative, the boyfriend... I say to you, 'You can choose your sin but you don't get to choose the consequences.' To the victims... I see you. I believe you... and I'm listening.
To him who knows to prosper and does it not, to him it is sin.
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
I think we have a sin problem in the world. It's so easy to say we have a race problem, but we got a sin problem.
But the Bible speaks against it, and because the Bible speaks against it, we allow rampant sin including homosexuality and lying, and to me lying is just as b ad as homosexuality, and we've allowed this sin to run rampant in our nation.
We all sin. We all can change. We all can be reborn in Christ.
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
But dogs, which have no ability to sin nor moral conscience, do not have an ability to reject Jesus.
Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
Righteousness exalts a nation, and sin brings reproach.
In the scriptures there is no such thing as righteous pride. It is always considered as a sin.
The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.
The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.
Being seventy is not a sin.
