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.

You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.

If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything.

O who is more to blame: He who sins for pay - Or he who pays for sin?

God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.

Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.

Take away the motive, and you take away the sin.

I don't think saying "I was wrong here, I was wrong there" absolves you of anything particularly, nor does it get you into heaven.

Our faults are not seen, But past us; neither felt, but only in The punishment.

All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free.

The minister today preached about death and judgment, and what would become of those who behaved improperly - and somehow it scared me. He preached such an awful sermon I didn't think I should ever see you again until the Judgment Day. The subject of perdition seemed to please him somehow.

He sins against this life, who slights the next.

Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.

Then the old man's face hardened. "What about you young man?" he asked flatly. "Would you like to get what you deserve?" Jones let that question hang in the air for a moment, then sighed, shook his head, and said "Me? I surely don't want what I deserve. I'm hoping for mercy, not justice.

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

Every time you have with your mouth said well of godliness, and yet gone on in wickedness; or every time you have condemned sin in others, and yet have not refrained it yourselves; I say, every such word and conclusion that hath passed out of thy mouth, sinner, it shall be as a witness against thee in the day of God, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

There are no small sins against a great God

Those who do unlawful acts are no more sinners in the eyes of God than we who think them.

Every fallen woman represents a man as guilty as herself, who escapes human detection, but whose soul lies open before God.

You think it's a blessing to know what God wants? I'll tell you what he wants. He wants to push me over! Can't he see what's inside of me? All my sins.

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.

Somebody has been a complete ratbag all their life and they've gotten away with it, and they die happy and rich, we so much want to believe that they're going off to the halls of judgment, that their heart will be weighed against the feather of truth, that it will be heavy with sin and it will be eaten by a crocodile. It's almost essential to our well-being to have a fallback position like that. It may appear as if you've gotten away with it, but you'll pay for it later.

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

When you get to the end will God say, "Well done," or, "What was up with that?"