Karl Barth Quotes

Sin is the reason we rebel against authority.

Sin is not just breaking God's laws; it is breaking His heart.

Falling is a hard thing to do whether you are a Christian or not, but when you are in Christ, it comes with a deep sadness for letting your Savior down.

I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.

What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.

For sin is just this, what man cannot by its very nature do with his whole being; it is possible to silence the conflict in the soul, but it is not possible to uproot it.

Sin pulls a man down into despondency and despair.

It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.

When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil.

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.

Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.

We all are originally sinners as Adam and in Adam, his leprosy cleaving faster to us than Naaman's did to Gahazai, so that even the infant, before it has seen the light of the world, has this blemish inherent in its unborn members.

When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.

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

He hates sin more for the indignity of it than the danger.

you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

Give me my sin again.

I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude.

Every time we sin in thought, word, or deed, we're essentially saying in that moment that, "I don't need you God. I don't want you God. I like my way better than your way."

It is a sin to write this.

Sin and shame ever go together; he that would be freed from the last must be sure to shun the company of the first.

When we sin, we are often upset, not because we have grieved the Spirit but because our pride has been injured.

The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

Be sure your sins will find you out, especially if you're married and her name's Bertha