Matthew Henry Quotes

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.

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

We have a generation of people who think they can stand before the judgment seat of God despite their sins.

A man does not sin by commission only, but often by omission.

If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!

The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.

The prayer of one who does not consider himself a sinner is not accepted by the Lord.

Modern man is weighed down more by the burden of responsibility than by the burden of sin. We think him more a savior who shoulders our responsibilities than him who shoulders our sins. If instead of making decisions we have but to obey and do our duty, we feel it as a sort of salvation.

My sin is the black spot which my bad act makes, seen against the disk of the Sun of Righteousness. Hence religion and sin come and go together.

It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.

The Spirit always communicates that He's for you when He convicts you of your sin.

A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent.

Let us fall before the majesty of our great God, acknowledging our faults, and praying that he will make us ever more conscious of them.

If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.

It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts.

Duties have been mine; consequences are God's.

There are no small sins against a great God

I just hope I don't have to explain all the times I've used His name in vain when I get up there.

He who has never sinned is less reliable than he who has only sinned once.

By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated.

You think it doesn't really matter if you screw up this time around because you can just sort it all out in paradise

Every sin provokes its punishment.

It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Oh God, I say not hear my prayers! I say: Blot with forgiving pen my sins away!

Take this to heart and doubt not that you are the one who killed Christ. Your sins certainly did, and when you see the nails driven through his hands, be sure that you are pondering, and when the thorns pierce his brow, know that they are your evil thoughts.