John Piper Quotes

I know what sin is.

To sin offers repentance and forgiveness; not to sin offers only punishment.

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

That's what troubles me: I should like to suffer more for the expiation of my sins.

I often remembered also that I had been told, that we shall have as many devils biting us, if we go to hell, as we have unconfessed sins on our consciences.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.

The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.

Every sin is the result of a collaboration.

We are punished by our sins, not for them.

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.

The payment for sins can be delayed. But they can't be avoided.

I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses.

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.

Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.

Mistakes you can learn from; sins stay with you forever.

In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.

Really to sin you have to be serious about it.

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

But this will not do, God will certainly punish you for stealing and for being unfaithful.

It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again.

Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it.

Many without punishment, but none without sin.