We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.
In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries in Catholic countries a successful person is a sinner.
The church saves sinners but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak that you are a sinner a miserable creature and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
As writers and readers as sinners and citizens our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
They may call me a sinner but I am at peace with myself.
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal eloquence or learning.
We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.
If you love those who love you what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.
I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou 'cause I'm not!
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low.
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.
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.
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Be a sinner and sin strongly but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
Therefore don't let sinners take courage to think they will be favoured like the thief on the cross for we see on the other side they may be like the hardened one and reproach death itself.
Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'
The devil had as good have let Paul alone for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open and poor sinners come forth.
I made a conscious decision back then that I would rather be the best actress who ever lived than the most famous one.