What They Said

“There can hardly be goodness in a man if he be not angry at sin; he who loves truth must hate every false way.”

“Pardon of sin and love of sin are like oil and water—they will never go together. All who are washed in the blood of Christ, are also sanctified by the Spirit of Christ.”

“To pretend to dread sin without fearing temptation, is self-delusion.”

"It is not enough that we determine to commit no sin; we must carefully keep at a distance from all approaches to it."

"Sin is the mother of all sorrow, and no sort of sin appears to give a man so much misery and pain as the sins of his youth."

"Sin is sweet in commission, but bitter in the remembrance.

"Now you cannot understand Christian salvation without understanding that it is because of iniquity and this terrible thing called sin that life in this world has become what all of us know by experience that it is,"

“No sin can be little, because it is committed against the great God of heaven and earth. To commit little sins the sinner must find out a little God. “

"Oh, then remember that there is nothing in heaven or earth more efficacious to cure the wounds of conscience than a frequent and serious meditation on the wounds of Christ."

“Though the lowest believer be above the power of sin, yet the highest believer is not above the presence of sin.”

“Christian, remember always the secret of success in the sore, conflict you have to wage. Let "the joy of the Lord" be "your strength." Apart from Christ there is nothing but defeat. You may resolve to do better, you may strive against your besetting sin, but if it be in your own might you will fail. But draw near to Christ, and keep Him in view continually. Hide deep in your heart His own word of promise—"My grace is sufficient for thee, for My strength is made perfect in weakness." Fly to Him as your stronghold, whenever danger is at hand. Make Him your shield, when the shafts of the wicked one are aimed for your destruction.

“True mourning for sin, is more for the evil that is in sin, than the evil that comes by sin; more because it dishonors God, and wounds Christ, and grieves the Spirit, and makes the soul unlike God, than because it damns the soul.”

“A saved soul is a God-pardoned soul. All its sins are forgiven, and its iniquities are drowned in that deluge of pardoning love that rises high above the topmost peaks of all its mountain crimes.”

"The least sin is unpardonable without this obedience and righteousness of Christ; and the greatest is pardonable by it."

“The Christian life is a life of continual repentance, humiliation for, and mortification of sin; continual faith in, thankfulness for, and love to the Redeemer, and hopeful joyful expectation of a day of glorious redemption, in which the believer shall be fully and finally acquitted, and sin be abolished forever.  The denial of our sin not only deceives ourselves, but dishonours God.”

“We must beware of deceiving ourselves in denying or excusing our sins.  The more we see them the more we shall esteem and value the remedy.”

“We must not think of sin as merely doing something that is wrong. That is what we tend to do.  We recognize certain acts as good and others as bad, and we tend to think that sin is just doing particular things that are bad. It is that, but that is not its essence. I repeat that the essence of sin is rebellion against God.”

“It is our wisest and our safest course to stand at the furthest distance from sin; not to go near the house of the harlot, but to fly from all appearance of evil.”

“Now, it is absolutely essential, it is the necessary preliminary to the gospel that we should realize what sin is. We must not think of sin as merely doing something that is wrong. That is what we tend to do. We recognize certain acts as good and others as bad, and we tend to think that sin is just doing particular things that are bad. It is that, but that is not its essence. I repeat that the essence of sin is rebellion against God.”

“Ah, it is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.”