Joseph Hall Quotes

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

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

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God's will.

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

So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know anyone except my wife who isn't a big time sinner.

It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.

Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it.

The first and most fundamental issue of sin is pride.

He that does evil hates the light.

If any fail to govern by what God has revealed, those are the wrongdoers.

I am a big sinner.

I know what sin is.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

In the context of worship, amusement is a waste of time and a waste of life, and therefore a form of sin.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

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.

If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

The starting point of sanctification is the filthiness, corruption, or stain of sin.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.

The Bible is plain that God requires moral perfection. It tells us unambiguously that God is holy and therefore cannot tolerate any hint of unholiness.

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