Like one
Who having into truth, by telling of it,
Made such a sinner of his memory,
To credit his own lie.
It is not the way to convert a sinner to knock him down first and then reason with him.
Regard yourself all the more as a sinner because you cannot feel yourself to be what you are.
I am, as ever, a poor sinner, a captive of eternal love, running by the side of His triumphal chariot, and I have no desire to be anything else as long as I live.
I feel as if I have been blessed to undergo a transformation from 'gangster' to 'redeemed sinner with gangster proclivities.'
There's a pardon for every sinner on the topside of the earth, but you have to call for it by faith before it becomes yours. In other words, you have to trust Christ as your Savior.
When you hear of a notorious sinner, instead of thinking you do well to be angry, beg of Jesus Christ to convert, and make him a monument of his free grace.
Justification and regeneration are simultaneous. The pardoned sinner becomes a child of God in justification.
Just everything that I've done, everything that I do, is to this day, all major decisions are all through prayer - all my actions, although a sinner, but you know what? I'm cool with that.
I've been the lowest low on the planet, I've been a sinner all my days. And I was living with my hands on the trigger, I had no sense to change my ways.
When Satan tells me I am a sinner he comforts me immeasurably, since Christ died for sinners.
Be a sinner and sin?? boldly,? but believe and?? rejoice in Christ even more boldly.
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.
Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.
It wasn't a potential atonement actuated by the sinner, it was an actual atonement initiated by the savior.
I am a great Sinner and God is a great Savior
The gospel casts out a rope to hale sinners to land; but the sinner has no hands to lay hold on it; his very faith must be wrought in him by the Spirit.
Nothing is uglier than the sinner, nothing so leprous or fetid; the scar of his crimes is still raw, and he stinks like the cave of Hell.
One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
O sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Mary in all you necessities. Call her to your assistance, for such is the divine Will that she should help in every kind of necessity.
I do not stand here before you as a self-righteous saint who has achieved spiritual perfection, but as a sinner who has received Jesus into his heart as his Lord and Savior.
You can take God's viewpoint and call sin sin and still love the sinner.
Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.
Look, I don't hate homosexuals. I've always said that I love the sinner but I hate the sin.
Tolerance as practiced by the Christian, enlightened West was never about thinking that bad people are good but that we are all called to love the sinner and hate the sin.
The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action.
Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
The only works of righteousness that serve to justify a sinner are the works of Christ.
The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats the Fall.
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.
When a majority of my prayers are for others to change, I've gotten off track. Lord, change this sinner's heart.
There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.
The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.
Faith is the act of trust by which one being, a sinner, commits himself to another being, a Saviour.
A sturdy, hardened sinner shall advance to the utmost pitch of impiety, with less reluctance than he took the first step while his conscience was yet vigilant and tender.
The sinner does not feel any remorse over his sins, that is because his heart is already dead
Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.
I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.
The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
Far better it is for you to say: "I am a sinner," than to say: "I have no need of religion." The empty can be filled, but the self-intoxicated have no room for God.
I can’t reveal the mystery to either saint or sinner; I can’t state at length what I’ve said curtly; I achieve an altered state that I can’t explain; I have a secret that I cannot share.
I struggle with pride every day, but the one thing that I try to remind myself everyday is that I'm still a sinner no matter how many points/assists/win I get on the court.
Not that you need to be a saint to have visions worth talking about. The most effective prescription, I suspect, is to be a disciplined sinner. Perfection, as Valery noted, is work.
He loves, He hopes, He waits. Our Lord prefers to wait Himself for the sinner for years rather than keep us waiting an instant.
The sinless One took on the face of a sinner so that we sinners could take on the face of a saint.
The goal is not to make you a smarter sinner but to make you like the Savior.
Oh, everything's too damned expensive these days. This Bible cost 15 bucks! And talk about a preachy book! Everybody's a sinner! Except this guy.
God, who preferred the correction rather than the death of a sinner, did not desire that a homicide be punished by the exaction of another act of homicide.
Christ is not knocking on the door of a sinner's heart, but on the door of a wayward church.
Though it is true that the church must always dissociate itself from sin, it can never have any excuse for keeping any sinner at a distance.
Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.
No one awakens in the morning thinking they will die that day. Not a saint or a sinner. Not even a condemned killer. We all know were mortal, and yet we all believe we'll live forever.
You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.
Non-co-operation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented.
The sinner can no more raise himself from the deadness of sin than Lazarus, who had been dead four days, until Jesus came.
Come poor, lost, undone sinner, come just as you are to Christ.
There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary, and by asking her assistance.
There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.
God led Jesus to a cross, not a crown, and yet that cross ultimately proved to be the gateway to freedom and forgiveness for every sinner in the world.
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