Megan Phelps-Roper Quotes

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.

We're all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.

I do think that a minister who can preach a sermon without addressing sinners does not know how to preach.

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.

Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.

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.

The floor of Christendom and elsewhere is littered with wrecks made by old prophets. God won't stand nonsense from any man. Every man has to choose between Christ and Barabbas, and every Christian between God and some old prophet.

Sin is too stupid to see beyond itself.

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

Saints need sinners.

Jesus alone cleanses from sin; He only can forgive our transgressions.

Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.

In Ezekiel, chapter 33, verse 11, it says, that 'God has no pleasure in the person that's living in sin.' He's a loving God and he wants people to turn away from what they're living in and he'll give them life. That's the message I'm trying to share, even though it comes across as harsh.

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

God's love-eye does not see essentially into the wicked rebellious apostate soul; neither also into the devil, but his anger-eye sees thereinto; that is, God, according to the property of the anger or fire of wrath, sees in the devil, and in the false soul.

Jesus never called a human being a sinner.

I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.

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

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.

I know what sin is.

The Saints never suffer as the sinners do.

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

I believe the Scriptures teach that there's a literal heaven and a literal hell, just like Jesus said. And without forgiveness of sins that, yeah, the place of punishment is called hell.

There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.