Aiden Wilson Tozer Quotes

The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats the Fall.

There is no man who does not sin.

Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls.

I'm no angel.

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Each person is responsible only for his or her own sins. Even the Christian doctrine of 'original sin' does not mean that humans are punished for the sin of the first human pair but, rather, that humans seem inevitably to copy the sin of the first human pair.

Falling is a hard thing to do whether you are a Christian or not, but when you are in Christ, it comes with a deep sadness for letting your Savior down.

For shameful deeds are taught by shameful deeds.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

I'm not a god - I do bad things.

Believe it or not, Christianity is not about good people getting better. If anything, it is good news for bad people coping with their failure to be good.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

The custom of sinning takes away the sense of it, the course of the world takes away the shame of it.

The doctrine of original sin claims that all men sinned in Adam; but whether they did or whether it is merely a fact that all men sin does not basically affect the problem of suffering.

We're all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.

It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.

There is no such thing as a saint without a past or a sinner without a future.

According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.

I can tell you that good people do bad things.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

That's one of the problems as a Christian, is that we have to deal with our failures and the shame of it all.

For me, 'Badlapur' is a terrifically emotional film.