Tullian Tchividjian Quotes

Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to cast a stone.

Whoever hates his sins will stop sinning; and whoever confesses them will receive remission. A man can not abandon the habit of sin if he does not first gain enmity toward sin, nor can he receive remission of sin without confession of sin. For the confession of sin is the cause of true humility.

I am mindful that we're all sinners.

God's grace justifies sinners, but it never justifies sin!

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

Now, I don't want to get off on a rant here, but guilt is simply God's way of letting you know that you're having too good a time.

Who am I to pass judgment? Judgment has been passed on me, but I adhere to, 'Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.'

Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.

No one was ever scolded out of their sins.

I just want people to know out there no matter what they've done, God doesn't judge us on how many sins.

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.

Leaders are for calling people to their better angels, for helping guide them to a kind of sterner, more mature sense of what we need to do. To me, Reagan's brand of leadership was what I call 'a liturgy of absolution.' He absolved Americans almost in a priestly role to contend with sin. Who wouldn't want that?

As somebody once said, we're not punished for our sins, we're punished by them.

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.

He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.

In no great religious movement has philanthropy been very strong, or rather sentiment or pity---The consciousness of sin has been too strong.

I clearly have done things that were wrong. I've clearly had to seek God's forgiveness.

I don't worry too much about people hating or insulting me. I'm a sinful man, and I've made a lot of mistakes. People have reason to hate me.

All of my favorite hymns are admissions of faults, and finding redemption even in those.

I repent daily my sins, my faults, and my shortcomings.

The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.

Jesus is never upset at sinners; he is only upset with people who do not think they are sinners.

May we be as severe with ourselves over our own subtle sins as we are with the vile sins we condemn in others

Christianity teaches that when man sinned, God opted for forgiveness rather than fairness. He opted for grace and mercy rather than justice.

Good people don't go to heaven. Forgiven people go to heaven.