Think twice before you use your intelligence to invent new sins! You may provoke God to new punishments. Sodom devised a new way to sin, so God devised a new way to discipline them: He sent hell from above upon them.
– William Gurnall –
Sin – Temptation
Death to Self – William Law
Death to self is the only entrance into the Church of the living God; and nothing but God can give this death, and that alone through the inward work of the cross of Christ by His Spirit made real in the soul.
– William Law –
Don’t Justify What You Need to Crucify – Unknown
Stop trying to justify what you need to crucify.
– Unknown –
What Is Sin? – Mother of John Wesley
Whatever weakens your reasoning, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes away your relish for spiritual things, in short, if anything increases the authority of the flesh over the spirit, that to you becomes sin, however good it is in itself.
– John Wesley’s Mother –
What Sin Is – John Bunyan
Sin is . . .
the dare of God’s justice,
the rape of His mercy,
the jeer of His patience,
the slight of His power
the contempt of His love!
– John Bunyan –
Till Sin Be Bitter, Christ Will Not Be Sweet – Thomas Watson
There is no rowing to paradise except upon the stream of repenting tears. Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.
– Thomas Watson –
Just a Little – Thomas Brooks
A little hole in the ship sinks it; a small breach in a sea-bank carries away all before it; a little stab at the heart kills a man; and a little sin, without a great deal of mercy, will damn a man.
– Thomas Brooks –
No Fishing Allowed – Corrie ten Boom
God takes our sins—past, present, and future—and dumps them in the sea and puts up a sign that says “No Fishing Allowed.”
– Corrie ten Boom –
Natural and Expected Unholiness – AW Tozer
We have learned to live with unholiness and have come to look upon it as the natural and expected thing.
– AW Tozer –