Sin Consequences Quotes

There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God

The holiness of God is traumatic to unholy people.

We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin.

Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgment Day, they were the only sinners who didn't get their souls back, because they tried to get rid of them once before.

No sin, no matter how momentarily pleasurable, comforting, or habitual, is worth missing what God has for us.

Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?

There are no private sins, all sins affect our brothers and sisters in Christ …. Every sin is a sin against the community

God is the only being who is good, and the standards are set by Him. Because God hates sin, He has to punish those guilty of sin. Maybe that's not an appealing standard. But to put it bluntly, when you get your own universe, you can make your own standards.

The most devastating effect of sin is that by it, we are blinded to it.

When we struggle for human rights, for freedom, for dignity, when we feel that it is a ministry of the church to concern itself for those who are hungry, for those who have no schools, for those who are deprived, we are not departing from God's promise. He comes to free us from sin, and the church knows that sin's consequences are all such injustices and abuses. The church knows it is saving the world when it undertakes to speak also of such things.

Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside.

The wages of sin are an expensive infection.

If our inner being was to be turned to the outside, and our outer being turned inward, we would appear with more wounds and diseases than the Prophet Job. For each sin that we commit and each doubt that enters our mind causes wounds in our heart and our spirit.

All human sin seems so much worse in its consequences than in its intentions.

I once heard a spiritual man say that he was not so much astonished at the things done by a soul in mortal sin as at the things not done by it. May God, in his mercy, deliver us from such great evil, for there is nothing in the whole of our lives that so thoroughly deserves to be called evil as this, since it brings endless and eternal evils in its train.

If a king goes astray the common people pay for the sin.

God's love means that our Creator desires to have a relationship with us. God's holiness prevents him from having fellowship with us and, instead, demands the outpouring of his anger against us.

We thought it was our duty to go and warn people of the consequences of their sins, and I understood that to be the definition of loving our neighbour.

It is great sin to swear unto a sin, But greater sin to keep a sinful oath.

Not even in this world does sin pay its servants good wages.

Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,--dark misgivings at the inmost heart.

Sin, guilt, neurosis; they are one and the same, the fruit of the tree of knowledge.

Sin is no little thing. It girded the Redeemer’s head with thorns, and pierced his heart . . . Look upon all sin as that which crucified the Saviour, and you will see it to be ‘exceeding sinful’.

Some laborers have hard hands, and old sinners have brawny consciences.