Zitat des Tages über Sünder / Sinner:
You may make some mistakes - but that doesn't make you a sinner. You've got the very nature of God on the inside of you.
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.
An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.
We're all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.
Growing up going to Christian school and the concept that you're born a sinner and you don't really have a choice to change who you are has been hammered into my head and created the entire reason why I made art and made a band and made records called 'Antichrist Superstar.'
The more I had to act like a saint, the more I felt like being a sinner.
I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.
The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
Only the sinner has the right to preach.
Now I will say this to every sinner, though he should think himself to be the worst sinner who ever lived: cry to the Lord and seek Him while He may be found. A throne of grace is a place fitted for you. By simple faith, go to your Savior, for He is the throne of grace.
None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.
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.
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner.
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
This is me, a sinner on whom the Lord has turned his gaze. And this is what I said when they asked me if I would accept my election as pontiff. I am a sinner, but I trust in the infinite mercy and patience of our Lord Jesus Christ, and I accept in a spirit of penance.
Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.
The love of Christ reaches to the very depths of earthly misery and woe, or it would not meet the case of the veriest sinner. It also reaches to the throne of the eternal, or man could not he lifted from his degraded condition, and our necessities would not be met, our desires would be unsatisfied.
One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.
God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.
My father was a clergyman and always said: 'Hate the sin but love the sinner.'
In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner.
Like all of my fictions, 'Sinner' is a mirror. Look into it and you will find yourself. What you do with what you see is your choice.
There is no sinner like a young saint.
The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.
I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of Christ and not by Christ's 'words and example.'
Love begets love; and thus the love of Christ displayed upon the cross woos and wins the sinner and binds him repenting to the cross, believing and adoring the matchless depths of a Saviour's love.
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!
In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.