Matthew Henry Quotes

I know what sin is.

There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.

At the end of the day, the Lord knows I have no malice in my heart. But I've got tattoos, and I still fornicate.

If you can sin and not weep over it, you are an heir of Hell. If you can go into sin, and afterwards feel satisfied to have done so, you are on the road to destruction. If there are no prickings of conscience, no inward torments, no bleeding wounds; if you have no throbs and heavings of a bosom that cannot rest; if your soul never feels filled with wormwood and gall when you know you have done evil, you are no child of God.

A man who knows that he lives in sin against God will not be inclined to come daily into the presence of God.

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 sinned against you, my Lord.

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.

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

I'd stand in line for Confession with old people and little kids, and as the line moved up, I knew when I got into the box that I would lie! Again!

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

Repentance is but want of power to sin.

I know I'm a sinner.

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

It is not sin that kills the soul, but impenitence.

I am a sinner....who's probably gonna sin again...Lord forgive me!

We have a generation of people who think they can stand before the judgment seat of God despite their sins.

REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin.

Conviction is not repentance; conviction leads to repentance. But you can be convicted without repentance.

Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior. He who has stood before his God, convicted and condemned, with the rope about his neck, is the man to weep for joy when he is pardoned, to hate the evil which has been forgiven him, and to live to the honor of the Redeemer by whose blood he has been cleansed.

Heart-suffering because of sin is the best proof that the Holy Spirit dwells in your heart.

If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!

It is hard to repent, to admit you are wrong on faith alone before the evidence of a feeling of being forgiven and light comes.

It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.