Top 361 Sinful Quotes & Sayings

Blessed are the peacemakers, For they have freed themselves from sinful wrath.

If there is no challenging of the sinful heart, there is no gospel preaching.

That which is won ill, will never wear well, for there is a curse attends it, which will waste it; and the same corrupt dispositions which incline men to the sinful ways of getting, will incline them to the like sinful ways of spending.

A sinful heart makes feeble hand.

Pride is never sinful when it is Justice.

What is considered sinful in one of the great religions to which citizens belong isn't necessarily sinful in the others. Criminal law therefore cannot be based on the notion of sin; it is crimes that it must define.

The only sexual act that is sinful is the one that uses or abuses.

Mortifying the deeds of the body cannot be understood of the religious deeds of the body, for they are to be cherished, nor of the natural deeds of the body such as eating and drinking; but it refers to the sinful actions that are done by the body arising from the temptations and injections of Satan or the corrupt dictates of our own sinful heart.

The state we find ourselves in is sinful quite independent of guilt.

We are supposed to share the gospel. So, I believe it can actually be a sinful thing to not do it.

I find the world and all it contains extremely fascinating. Is this sinful?

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

Above all Christians are not allowed to correct by violence sinful wrongdoings.

Sanctification is the process in which we become more aware of how sinful we are.

The sinful emotions are stirred most deeply by self-love.

Father God, thank You for having no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, You did by sending Your own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. (Rom. 8:1-3) Help me to understand that the loving chastisement that might come to me after I have rebelled against You is only in the purest Father's love and is never to be confused with condemnation. (Heb. 12:6)

Job's unraveling wasn't wrong or sinful; rather, it was emotionally realistic.

Everybody has a sinful nature pulling them at every turn.

I live by the spirit so I don't gratify all them old sinful desires that never satisfy.

The sinful actions of men may be sinful, either from the motives which prompt them, the ends in view, or the means by which they are accomplished. God may concur in such acts, from motives, with ends, and in the use of means which are altogether most holy

The Bible teaches that all sin begins with sinful thinking.

Even for the most excitable preacher, there was nothing inherently sinful about a waffle.

Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want.

To say that a man is sinful because he sins is to give an operational definition of sin. To say that he sins because he is sinful is to trace his behavior to a supposed inner trait. But whether or not a person engages in the kind of behavior called sinful depends upon circumstances which are not mentioned in either question. The sin assigned as an inner possession (the sin a person "knows") is to be found in a history of reinforcement.

There are many reasons why vulnerable young people join militant groups, but among them are poverty and ignorance. Indeed Boko Haram - which translates in English, roughly, as 'Western Education Is Sinful' - preys on the perverted belief that the opportunities that education brings are sinful.

Anything that's natural can't be sinful-it may be inconvenient, but it's not sinful.

Do not deprive someone of his livelihood. This is a sinful tendency.

Go through the moral demands...one by one and you will find that man could not live up to them; the intention is not that he should become more moral, but that he should feel as sinful as possible. If man had failed to find this feeling pleasant - why should he have engendered such an idea and adhered to it for so long?... Man was by every means to be made sinful and thereby become excited, animated, enlivened in general. To excite, animate, enliven at any price.

The Bible is all God's speech, as well as all mediated through human writers who wrote the individual books. It's a mistake to try to separate passages into a divine piece and a human piece. Rather, we should treat the Bible for what it is: divine and human all the way through. Of course God can quote human sinful speech, or describe human sinful actions, without implying that he approves them.

I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.

Sin is not so sinful as hypocrisy.

Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.

Gentleman, it is a terrifying thing for a woman to trust a sinful man.

The worst kind of sin is not to acknowledge that you are sinful.

What I go for in my cooking is sinful, bold and real.

Luckily I don't have a sinful past, because there's nothing you can hide from your kids now.

If you inflict your unhappiness onto others, it is sinful

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

The sin that Jesus bore, and that we are now empowered to live free from, includes all the sinful warrior deity images humans throughout history have projected onto God. In this way, the cross is at one and the same time the definitive revelation of the true loving God and the "crucifixion of the warrior god". And just as we should forever revolt against the sin and that was permanently put to death on the cross, so too followers of Jesus should forever revolt against the sinful warrior image of God that was permanently put to death on the cross.

The scandal of the world is what makes the offence; it is not sinful to sin in silence.

I wonder if that isn't the most sinful thing of all -- thinking all the pleasant things are wicked.

No matter how sinful one may have been, if he has devotion to Mary, it is impossible that he be lost.

We manage to swallow flesh, only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing we do.

Regret for a sinful past will remain until we truly believe that for us in Christ that sinful past no longer exists.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

The Church no longer contends that knowledge is in itself sinful, though it did so in its palmy days; but the acquisition of knowledge, even though not sinful, is dangerous, since it may lead to pride of intellect, and hence to a questioning of the Christian dogma.

Non-co-operation in itself is unnatural, vicious and sinful.

I am a seeker, a poor, sinful creature, there is no weaker than I.

The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief.

Ah, there is nothing more beautiful than the difference between the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a holy being, and the thought about sinful creatures which is natural to a self-righteous being. The one is all contempt; the other, all pity.

Sinful man really hopes when he no longer has anything of his own.

Christianity teaches that the human race is depraved, fallen, and sinful.

Anything done against faith or conscience is sinful.

Flirting is the sin of the virtuous and the virtue of the sinful.

It is God alone who can subdue and govern the unruly wills of sinful men.

Sinful zeal doth make men doubly sinful.

It is sinful for students to badmouth their teachers and sinful for teachers to mislead their students.

the disorders of your hearts, and their sinful workings are as words before God.

Sex is not sinful, but sin has perverted it.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.