We will never deal successfully with our sins while excusing them as weaknesses, mistakes, or uncontrollable emotions or desires.
– AJ Chase –
Sin – Temptation
The Voice of Forgiveness is Louder – DL Moody
Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy-seven times (Matthew 18:21-22).
Peter did not seem to think that he was in danger of falling into sin; his question was, How often should I forgive my brother? But very soon we hear that Peter has fallen. I can imagine that when he did fall, the sweet thought came to him of what the Master had said. The voice of sin may be loud, but the voice of forgiveness is louder.
– DL Moody –
from Day by Day with D.L. Moody
Sin Doesn’t Reign in the Saint – Thomas Brooks
Sin may rebel, but it shall never reign in any saint.
– Thomas Brooks –
1608-1680
Growing in Grace – JC Ryle
When I speak of a person growing in grace, I mean simply this —that his sense of sin is becoming deeper, his faith stronger, his hope brighter, his love more extensive, and his spiritual mindedness more marked.
– JC Ryle –
Do you look like the world? – AW Tozer
One compromise here, another there, and soon enough the so-called Christian and the man in the world look the same.
– AW Tozer –
from A Man of God
Beginning of Salvation – Martin Luther
The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation.
– Martin Luther –
Confess Our Sins – Alan Redpath
It’s Satan’s delight to tell me that once he’s got me, he will keep me. But at that moment I can go back to God. And I know that if I confess my sins, God is faithful and just to forgive me.
– Alan Redpath –
Do you mourn over or repent of your sin? – Matthew Henry
Many mourn for their sins that do not truly repent of them, weep bitterly for them, and yet continue in love and league with them.
– Matthew Henry –
Everyone is a missionary (for good or for evil) – Thomas Chalmers
Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for good or for evil, whether he intends or designs it or not. He may be a blot radiating his dark influence outward to the very circumference of society, or he may be a blessing spreading benediction over the length and breadth of the world. But a blank he cannot be: there are no moral blanks; there are no neutral characters.
– Thomas Chalmers –