Southern Baptist Convention Quotes

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

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!

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.

Every Christian will allow that sin is an evil, and that it is our duty not to commit sin.

I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I believe that Jesus died for my sins, and rose again, and that's my belief. I still don't know what 'Christian' means. I'm a follower of Christ, but I keep making a whole bunch of mistakes. And I thank God for forgiveness.

Although God loves us unconditionally, He does get angry at sin, wickedness and evil. But He is not an angry God. God hates sin, but He loves sinners! He will never approve of sin in your life, but He always loves you and wants to work with you to make progress in living a holy life in Christ.

That's one of the problems as a Christian, is that we have to deal with our failures and the shame of it all.

Preaching Christian salvation is to preach moral absolutes. Hollywood no likey.

Jesus never called a human being a sinner.

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

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.

We have all fallen short of the glory of God.

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

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

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

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

So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don't know anyone except my wife who isn't a big time sinner.

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.

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.

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God.