John Bunyan Quotes

If we started prosecuting people for sin, we’d all be in jail.

Law can discover sin, but not remove, Save by those shadowy expiations weak.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

He that hath slight thoughts of sin, never had great thoughts of God.

The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out.

A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law.

God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

Man has made 32 million laws since the Commandments were handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai... but he has never improved on God's law.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

Theology always has moral implications, and morality is always undergirded by theology.

There is no sin but ignorance.

The idea of right and wrong, being righteous, acknowledging when you make a mistake, repentance - all these important things I got from my Catholic background.

Every person I killed I strongly believe that they were bad. When I do go face God there is going to be lots of things I will have to account for but killing any of those people is not one of them.

I'm not a religious person in the regular sense, but in the Bible you're not allowed to steal, you're not allowed to lie and you're not allowed to feel you're above other people.

Religion may have become a codification of morality, and it may fortify it, but it's not the origin of it.

All religions accept that there is something called 'criminality.' And criminality cannot be excused by religious fervour.

The law of God, and also the way to life, is written in our hearts: It lieth in no man's supposition and knowing, nor in any historical opinion, but in a good will and well-doing.

The passions of men are in themselves no sin. No more are the actions that proceed from those passions until they know that a law forbids them, which till laws be made, they cannot know.

In a civilized society, all crimes are likely to be sins, but most sins are not and ought not to be treated as crimes.

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

Law alone cannot make men see right.

There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.