Sin Nature Quotes

“We may understand again, therefore, from this picture, that God's purpose in the cross of Jesus Christ was two-fold: first that we might be forgiven, being saved from sin's penalty because Christ died for us, and secondly, that we might be delivered from sin's power, because this old sinful nature, called the flesh, died with Him.”
― Major W. Ian Thomas

“Another part or piece,' said Diabolus, 'of mine excellent armour, is a dumb and prayerless spirit, a spirit that scorns to cry for mercy, let the danger be ever so great; therefore be you, my Mansoul, sure that you make use of this.”
― John Bunyan, The Holy War

“As I look at my life, I might ask “Who is the person that represents the greatest threat to me?” And if I happen to have a mirror around somewhere, I can rather quickly answer that question.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Let us never fear robbers or murders. Those are dangerous from without, Teddy dangerous. Let us be ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves. What matters it what threatens our head or our purse! Let us think only of that which threatens our soul.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“In his natural perversion, a man wants to lie with a hooker, wed a virgin, and keep both.”
― Ron Brackin

“Only three things are real: God, human folly, and laughter. Since we can do nothing with the first two, we must do what we can with the third.”
― John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Guilt is more about what you do. Shame is more about who you are.”
― Matt Chandler, Recovering Redemption: A Gospel Saturated Perspective on How to Change

“…mischief, …arises not from our living in the world, but from the world living in us; occupying our hearts, and monopolizing our affections.”
― Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist

“How often have we rather eagerly chosen the dark because the nature of it grants us the ability to be blind to the nature of ourselves. And while the choice of the darkness might hide our nature, it certainly reveals how ashamed we are of it.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“There’s something vulnerable about the human condition, where people can transmute into something so astonishingly altered that whatever is left is wholly unrecognizable.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough, The Eighth Page: A Christmas Journey