Sinner Quotes

“If you violate laws of God, you're a sinner.
If you violate laws of men, you're a criminal.
If you violate your own laws, you're pathetic.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“The humble sinner will sometimes be interpreted as one of the filthiest in the eyes of man yet immersed in the eyes of God, and this is due to the volition of honesty regarding his own corruption.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“As sinners we are like addicts - addicted to ourselves and our own projects. The theology of glory simply seeks to give those projects eternal legitimacy. The remedy for the theology of glory, therefore, cannot be encouragement and positive thinking, but rather the end of the addictive desire. Luther says it directly: "The remedy for curing desire does not lie in satisfying it, but in extinguishing it." So we are back to the cross, the radical intervention, end of the life of the old and the beginning of the new.

Since the theology of glory is like addiction and not abstract doctrine, it is a temptation over which we have no control in and of ourselves, and from which we must be saved. As with the addict, mere exhortation and optimistic encouragement will do no good. It may be intended to build up character and self-esteem, but when the addict realizes the impossibility of quitting, self-esteem degenerates all the more. The alcoholic will only take to drinking in secret, trying to put on the facade of sobriety. As theologians of glory we do much the same. We put on a facade of religious propriety and piety and try to hide or explain away or coddle our sins....

As with the addict there has to be an intervention, an act from without. In treatment of alcoholics some would speak of the necessity of 'bottoming out,' reaching the absolute bottom where one can no longer escape the need for help. Then it is finally evident that the desire can never be satisfied, but must be extinguished. In matters of faith, the preaching of the cross is analogous to that intervention. It is an act of God, entirely from without. It does not come to feed the religious desires of the Old Adam and Eve but to extinguish them. They are crucified with Christ to be made new.”
― Gerhard O. Forde, On Being a Theologian of the Cross: Reflections on Luther's Heidelberg Disputation, 1518

“At Sunday worship, as in every dimension of our existence, many of us pretend to believe we are sinners. Consequently, all we can do is pretend we have been forgiven. As a result, our whole spiritual life is pseudo-repentance and pseudo-bliss.”
― Brennan Manning

“Well, but you affirm that virtue is only elicited by temptation; - and you think that a woman cannot be too little exposed to temptation, or too little acquainted with vice, or anything connected therewith – It must be, either, that you think she is essentially so vicious, or so feeble-minded that she cannot withstand temptation, - and though she may be pure and innocent as long as she is kept in ignorance and restraint, yet, being destitute of real virtue, to teach her how to sin is at once to make her a sinner...”
― Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

“Saints are sinners who kept on going.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“God knows I'm no saint, but I don't think I'm more of a sinner than any other man.”
― Georgette Heyer, The Nonesuch

“So don't preach at us like you're some kind of saint. You're just another sinner.”
― Rachel Caine, Fall of Night

“In case you’re not bright enough to figure it out, there’s a real upside to having a sinner like me answer your phone. I lie, and your conscience stays clear.”
― Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Ain't She Sweet?

“Sometimes, somehow...
I feel that ocean contains tears of mother earth,
that mourns over terrible great sin done by men.”
― Toba Beta

“Mein Herz pumpte flüssiges Sonnenlicht.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Sinner

“And I love being a sinner too much to ever be a saint.'

'No one would nominate you for sainthood.'

'And be glad of that. Saints don't typically kill to protect their investments.”
― Kerri Maniscalco, Throne of the Fallen

“A new year for new sins.”
― Emily Ruth Verona, Dead Letters: Episodes of Epistolary Horror

“I didn’t really like people to touch me.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Sinner

“In front of me, Cole’s smile had emptied. His eyes were going blank, which was what happened to Cole when you hurt him. The real Cole vacated the situation and left his body standing by itself.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Sinner

“Do not emphasise sin more than forgiveness or justice more than mercy.”
― Brother Pedro

“Jesus loves the sinner and destroys the sin. Satan loves the sin and destroys the sinner.”
― Allene vanOirschot

“Christ and the believing sinner are in the same boat: unless Jesus sinks, the believer will never drown.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon, All of Grace

“Sometimes I took online quizzes to find out if I was a sociopath. Society thinks there are more male sociopaths than female, but that is a dirty, dirty lie perpetuated by the media. There are more unfeeling girls out there than they would like to admit.
Maybe I wasn’t crazy. But if I wasn’t, then everyone else was.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Sinner

“He was too young to drive, but old enough to be able to turn a doorknob.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Sinner

“Sometimes I took online quizzes to find out if I was a sociopath. Society thinks there are more male sociopaths than female, but that is a dirty, dirty lie perpetuated by the media. There are more unfeeling girls out there than they would like to admit.
Maybe I wasn't crazy. But if I wasn't, then everyone else was.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Sinner

“Really, it wasn’t exhausting to be recognized. It was exhausting to feel alone in a crowd.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Sinner

“Ugly never hurt a thing.”
I scoffed. “Oh, ugly has hurt some things. It’s just that pretty hurts more.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Sinner

“I'm rededicating my life to theses French fries. Before this time, I was a sinner, finding pleasure in wine, women, song, and, sometimes, cocaine and grand theft auto, living moment to moment, not thinking about the consequences of my actions on my own body or others, but now I have seen the light and I will instead worship at the altar of stolen fries. I will pain murals in their honour. I will rename myself Tuber.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Mister Impossible

“A remorseful sinner is dearer to God than a yogi proud of his yoga.”
― Swami Sharnanand ji Maharaj

“Hate not the most abject sinner, look not to his exterior. Turn thy gaze inward, where resides the Paramatman. Proclaim to the whole world thee, with trumpet voice, "There is no sin in thee, there is no misery in thee; thou art the reservoir of omnipotent power. Arise, awake, and manifest the Divinity within!”
― Swami Vivekananda, Thoughts on the Gita

“Your light's no fun without a little shadow to dance with. Saint or sinner - pick both. The real magic lives in the mess where halos slip and horns shine.”
― Julieanne O'Connor

“Lord, have mercy on me, a winner.”
― Criss Jami

“When a person indulges in sin, thinking that he has already done it before, it is like peeling one more layer of an onion because he has already peeled a layer. With each layer that is removed, the peeling becomes increasingly nonchalant, repetitive and brazen until he is naked with no sense of worth or self-esteem. In Rhuzbeh’s case, he peeled away rapidly.”
― Shabbeer Ahmed, Djinns & Kings: The Curse of Zoa