Jock Sturges Quotes

Jesus never called a human being a sinner.

You know, bad people, I've never seen bad people have angels.

Government can try to make the world a little better, but can we alter the human condition? No. We can't make saints out of sinners. St. Augustine had something to say about that.

From the time of Adam and Eve, man has tried to escape suffering in any form.

I'm not going to grant Bobby Green his wishes by fighting him and responding to his nonsense.

Sin is not taken out of man, as Eve was out of Adam, by putting him to sleep.

Nor did demons crucify Him; it is you who have crucified Him and crucify Him still, when you delight in your vices and sins.

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.

In Adam's fall We sinned all. In the new Adam's rise, We shall all reach the skies.

True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.

The object of the Bible is not to tell how good men are, but how bad men can become good.

Sins are timeless. Sins are an everyday reality for every one. Sin has been in existence since the beginning of man, since Adam and Eve. It will always be pertinent.

On the cross, Jesus won the right for believers to be born again back into the god-class. Adam was created, not subordinate to God, but as a god; he lost it, and in Christ we are taken back to the god-class.

God knew what we were before conversion - wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion - weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us.

Faith is a fruit, work, or gift of the Spirit of God, whereby a poor soul is enabled through the mighty operation of God, in a sense of its sins and wretched estate to lay hold on the righteousness, blood, death, resurrection, ascension, intercession, and coming again of the Son of God which was crucified without the gates of Jerusalem, for eternal life.

Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.

To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

In salvation we are not only saved from sin and damnation; we are saved unto holiness. The goal of redemption is holiness.

Too bad the things that make you mad are my favorite things.

The saint endeavors to recover a gift which he has lost; the sinner tries to obtain something which was never his. In brief, he repeats the Fall.

The guy [Doctor Strange], he's like most of us, he's uncorrupted flesh from the beginning of his life, he's somebody who's not marked with original sin or any kind of crap like that. He's somebody who's come into this world and had experiences that have shaped him to the point that we first meet him. There's always got to be leverage. I think there is some clear explanation of that within this film, but potentially further down the line...for more of that to come out as well.

We cannot ask forgiveness over and over again for our sins, and then return to our sins, expecting God to forgive us. We must turn from our practice of sin as best we know how, and turn to Christ by faith as our Lord and Savior.

I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity?

There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut.