John Wycliffe Quotes

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

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

Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.

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.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

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!

Many a sin has sullied me in body and in soul because I did not restrain my thoughts nor guard my lips: nevertheless it is to Thee, O God of majesty and love, that I turn in my extremity, for Thou art the fount of mercy; to Thee, as quickly as I may, I speed: for Thou alone canst heal me; I take refuge under Thy protection.

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.

I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I believe that Jesus died for my sins, and rose again, and that's my belief. I still don't know what 'Christian' means. I'm a follower of Christ, but I keep making a whole bunch of mistakes. And I thank God for forgiveness.

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?

Many without punishment, but none without sin.

Only when we understand the holiness of God will we understand the depth of our sin.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

God's love-eye does not see essentially into the wicked rebellious apostate soul; neither also into the devil, but his anger-eye sees thereinto; that is, God, according to the property of the anger or fire of wrath, sees in the devil, and in the false soul.

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.

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.

I think God's wrath and purgatory are the only things keeping me on the straight and narrow. I like the idea of purgatory. It's like a cosmic do-over.

The fact is you cannot talk about the love of God. The love of God has no meaning whatsoever unless you understand the judgment of God that all of us deserve.