Monica Johnson Quotes

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

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

I am a big sinner.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

You cannot be responsible for salvation until first you've been responsible for sin.

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

He that does evil hates the light.

There's not a Christian out there who hasn't struggled with wanting to break a rule or having broken a rule over and over again.

We are all sinners.

I know I'm a sinner.

People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

Repentance allows God's mercy to come forth because it recognizes that the sin committed was against God. It also bares contriteness of the heart and the desire to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh so that particular sin will never be repeated.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

Christian, non-Christian, we're going to miss the mark. We're going to make mistakes. How you handle those mistakes and get more fundamentally sound spiritually in dealing with those mistakes I think have a direct impact - not only on your spiritual life, but those around you.

I know what sin is.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

God-fearing people, once they're saved from their sins, they don't mind talking about it.

I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.