Sinners Quotes

“Hate the sin, love the sinner.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.”
― Nelson Mandela

“God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

“Redemption, n. Deliverance of sinners from the penalty of their sin through their murder of the deity against whom they sinned. The doctrine of Redemption is the fundamental mystery of our holy religions, and whoso believeth in it shall not perish, but have everlasting life in which to try to understand it.”
― Ambrose Bierce, The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“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.”
― Fulton J. Sheen, Seven Words of Jesus and Mary: Lessons from Cana and Calvary

“I felt for the tormented whirlwinds
Damned for their carnal sins
Committed when they let their passions rule their reason.”
― Dante Alighieri

“Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“I remember clearly the deaths of three men. One was the richest man of the century, who, having clawed his way to wealth through the souls and bodies of men, spent many years trying to buy back the love he had forfeited and by that process performed great service to the world and, perhaps, had much more than balanced the evils of his rise. I was on a ship when he died. The news was posted on the bulletin board, and nearly everyone recieved the news with pleasure. Several said, "Thank God that son of a bitch is dead."

Then there was a man, smart as Satan, who, lacking some perception of human dignity and knowing all too well every aspect of human weakness and wickedness, used his special knowledge to warp men, to buy men, to bribe and threaten and seduce until he found himself in a position of great power. He clothed his motives in the names of virtue, and I have wondered whether he ever knew that no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love. A bribed man can only hate his briber. When this man died the nation rang with praise...

There was a third man, who perhaps made many errors in performance but whose effective life was devoted to making men brave and dignified and good in a time when they were poor and frightened and when ugly forces were loose in the world to utilize their fears. This man was hated by few. When he died the people burst into tears in the streets and their minds wailed, "What can we do now?" How can we go on without him?"

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted short cuts to love. When a man comes to die, mo matter what his talents and influence and genius, if he dies unloved his life must be a failure to him and his dying a cold horror....we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure to the world.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“The film image of a dead child dressed in blood-red floating, Ophelia-like, in "Don’t Look Now" swam before her eyes. It must be some kind of diabolical threat!”
― Theasa Tuohy, Mademoiselle le Sleuth

“The ragamuffin gospel reveals that Jesus forgives sins, including the sins of the flesh; that He is comfortable with sinners who remember how to show compassion; but that He cannot and will not have a relationship with pretenders in the Spirit.”
― Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel

“Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.”
― Thornton Wilder

“Prevarication, how divine! I always did get along better with sinners.”
― Karen Chance

“At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be published in heaven as a miracle that the Lord Jesus should set His heart's love upon people like us.”
― Alistair Begg

“Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people's sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing.”
― Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Stolen Apples

“If there are damned souls in Hell, it is because men blind themselves.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul be Damned for the World, Vol. 1

“A grave and dark-clad company," quoth Goodman Brown.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Young Goodman Brown

“Our only qualification for God's grace is our emptiness, not our fullness; our undeservingness, not our deservingness. 'Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous but the sinners.' (Mk 2:17). Similarly, on an infinitely lower level, this book is for empty hearts, not full ones.”
― Peter Kreeft, Making Sense Out of Suffering

“The Church isn't a cult for a few heroes. It is the whole of fallen mankind redeemed.”
― Evelyn Waugh

“He eagerly suffered for us when we were failing, as orphans. Will he cross his arms over our failures now that we are his adopted children?

His heart was gentle and lowly toward us when we were lost. Will his heart be anything different toward us now that we are found?

While we were still...He loved us in our mess then. He'll love us in our mess now. Our very agony in sinning is the fruit of our adoption. A cold heart would not be bothered. We are not who we were.”
― Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers

“The only thing that pisses people off more than stating the truth is using Jesus to state it for you.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Do not emphasise sin more than forgiveness or justice more than mercy.”
― Brother Pedro

“While the law condemns anyone who breaks it, God loves sinners, even those who actively reject Him and disobey His laws. God’s moral law is much like the other laws that He created to govern the universe; it is inherently true.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose

“Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the worst. But for that very reason I was shown mercy so that in me, the worst of sinners, Christ Jesus might display his immense patience as an example for those who would believe in him and receive eternal life.”
― Paul the Apostle, 1 Timothy

“I agree that every saint has a past, but not that every sinner has a future. In this life we see a great many sinners dying precisely and directly because of sin.”
― Criss Jami

“Kids are not born sinners, they are born innocent and will become whatever you project to them.

Stop projecting sin to them.”
― Chidi Ejeagba

“Hate not the most abject sinner, look not to his exterior. Turn thy gaze inward, where resides the Paramatman. Proclaim to the whole world thee, with trumpet voice, "There is no sin in thee, there is no misery in thee; thou art the reservoir of omnipotent power. Arise, awake, and manifest the Divinity within!”
― Swami Vivekananda, Thoughts on the Gita

“I thought I could fit everything into tidy boxes and sort right from wrong. But now I see that sometimes a saint acts like a sinner. And sometimes a sinner acts like a saint.”
― Amanda Cox, The Bitter End Birding Society

“There are two types of dangerous men in this world,Wren. The ones you run from, and the ones you run toward to escape the first kind. Trust me: I didn't need to witness Gabe's outburst tonight to know which camp he falls into.”
― Somme Sketcher

“We are all sinners by birth, but in Christ Jesus, we are made perfect and righteous the day we are baptized and born of God. Through faith, we forsake sin and walk in righteousness. In Christ, we have a new identity, and His righteousness becomes ours. There is no condemnation for those who are in Christ, for we are set free from the power of sin and death. If we deliberately sin, it reveals that we are not walking in the Spirit. In Christ, we are new creations, no longer defined by our past sins but by His righteousness.”
― Shaila Touchton