#sinner

Saints need sinners. ↗

— Alan Watts

#saints #sinners

You should not believe your conscience and your feelings more than the word which the Lord who receives sinners preaches to you. ↗

— Martin Luther

#conscience #feelings #lord #more #preaches

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#does #god #makes #more #nothing

I wish people wouldn't think of me as a saint - unless they agree with the definition of a saint that a saint's a sinner who goes on trying. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#definition #goes #i #i wish #me

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#grouch #hangs #his #jest #justification

Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace. ↗

— Samuel Rutherford

#come #exhaust #grace #hells #infinite

By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#before #born #bring #children #disobedience

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#large #mankind #part #sinners #sins

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#first #greatest #punishment #sin #sinner

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world. ↗

— Charles Spurgeon

#believe #create #holy #more #repent