Walter Lang Quotes

If America is too arrogant, too prideful to repent, it's not the kind of country that God wants it to be.

Let God and all his creation teach you what your sins are.

As a pastor, I addressed the sorts of issues I see people struggling with most and the issues talked about most directly and most frequently in the New Testament. That leads us to recurring concerns with sexual immorality, relational sins, and vices associated with the breaking of the Ten Commandments.

He that falls into sin is a man; that grieves at it, is a saint; that boasteth of it, is a devil.

Sin leads to wickedness and to hearts that become hardened to things of the Spirit.

Although I am a Christian, I am not even close to perfect.

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

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Repentance allows God's mercy to come forth because it recognizes that the sin committed was against God. It also bares contriteness of the heart and the desire to walk in the Spirit and not in the flesh so that particular sin will never be repeated.

I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.

And yet, you do not throw out some of the great minds of the Church - and people in Church history - and say they have no credibility because they committed a sin or made a mistake.

The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love that is God. Anyone who begins to live and grow away from God, who lives away from what is good, is turning his life toward wrath.

What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.

The truth is the real Christian experience is truly about repenting every day because there is no Christian that doesn't sin.

I am and always will be a sinner. But that's the beautiful thing about Jesus. I'll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I'm not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I'm holier than thou, 'cause I'm not!

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

I do believe in Christ, but I would not hold myself up as any paragon of virtue at all - far from it, really.

To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.