Charles Stanley Quotes

The assurance of His total forgiveness of our sins through the blood of Christ means we don't have to play defensive games anymore. We don't have to rationalize and excuse our sins. We can call sin exactly what it is, regardless of how ugly and shameful it may be, because we know that Jesus bore that sin in His body on the cross.

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

It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree.

Nothing cuts the nerve of the desire to pursue holiness as much as a sense of guilt. On the contrary, nothing so motivates us to deal with sin in our lives as does the understanding and application of the two truth that our sins are forgiven and the dominion of sin is broken because of our union with Christ.

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

We are all culpable in the death of Christ. My sins, your sins put Him on that cross.

I've got the best deal on Earth. Where else can I sin and know that I'm forgiven for it?

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.

There is no original sin. You don't have to pay repentance to anything or anybody.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself wholly to the mercy of God and the merit of Christ.

Christianity has done a great deal for love by making a sin of it.

Let your tears fall because of sin; but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of man lifted up, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, that those who are bitten by the old serpent may look unto Jesus and live. Our sinnership is that emptiness into which the Lord pours his mercy.

Jesus died for our sins, not our sexuality.

The love of Jesus Christ covers your sins, and it also gives you the power to let other people off the hook. You've been forgiven, and you can forgive others.

Jesus didn't go around condemning people. The Bible says it's the goodness of God that leads people to repentance.

Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree. Look up to the cross, and you will kill sin, for the strength of Jesus' love will make you strong to put down your tendencies to sin.

Jesus Christ does not save the worthy, but the unworthy. Your plea must not be righteousness but guilt

The grace of God is love freely shown toward guilty sinners, contrary to their merit and indeed in defiance of their demerit.

In those moments when I'm obsessively counting my sins against me, it is good news to remember that God has counted my sins against Christ.

No one in the history of the world has been more inclusive of repentant sinners than Jesus and no one has been more intolerant of sin.

The more clearly we see sins horror, the more we shall treasure the cross.

Jesus came to save us from our own sins.