All Quotes By Tag: Sin

“Darkness entered into, darkness realized, is the point of departure for all profound expressions of Christian hope. ‘Meaningless darkness’ becomes ‘revelatory darkness’ when it is confronted by the courage of a thoughtfulness and hope that is born of faith’s quest for truth.”

“To confess?! But what if the priest snitched me to God?”

“Grace was not given so that we can freely commit sin but so that we can freely access God’s presence”

“Smartass Disciple: Master, why God let human did sins in the beginning?Master of Stupidity: If the saviour must come, why should He prevent that?”

“but what if God have seen,And death ensue? then I shall be no more,And Adam wedded to another Eve,Shall live with her enjoying, I extinct;A death to think. Confirmed then I resolve,Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe:So dear I love him, that with him all deathsI could endure, without him live no life.”

“God is putting his world back together, and to do that he’s using the very people who broke it.”

“If we really desire God’s help, we should not look to ourselves, but to him… The more we are able to look outward and forget ourselves, the more easily our mind can be freed and healed by God.”

“We can see that sin is simply anything that disrupts the way life is intended to be. Sometimes we are the ones who do the disrupting; sometimes it’s done to us. But never does sin become part of our identity. We are created in the image and likeness of love, and nothing can destroy that.”

“That is the truth, my boy. All we have left of our ancestors’ great covenant with the Everlasting, who brought them out of nothingness, is darkness and wrath. With every day that passes, Horeb’s wrath feeds on our sins. He demands justice and righteousness. He watches us, impatiently. He knows our past, but he also knows the future that awaits us. He sees that we are advancing into darkness. In his impatience, he rumbles to shake us our of our torpor. But all he obtains in return is fear, even though what he wants is a little courage and dignity!”

“In this story, we are not God’s enemies. We are God’s image-bearers and the most precious thing he created. We are not sin but are oppressed by the force of sin. We need saving but not from God or even ourselves–we need saving from all of those many things that interfere with our ability to perfectly reflect and receive love.”

“The greatest angst imaginable is to create something magnificent for those I love and then watch those I love utterly destroy the very thing that I created for them. And while I would surrender under the weight of the resulting carnage, God took a very different approach and surrendered His son to repair the carnage.”

“Who in the world would walk into the very things that we created in order to save us from what we created by dying right in the middle of what we created? God did it by creating something called Christmas.”

“Instead of pointing fingers at ‘criminals’ like Gun wielding terrorists, cold-blooded murders, gruesome rapists, juvenile delinquents (by the way they are mere humans akin to you and me!)…let’s see where we stand with regard to the question of our own moral standing before the moral law giver”

“God has placed Himself squarely within the confines of my confines so that within my reach there lays the very thing that I need to break me out of those confines. Therefore, if I remain confined, it may be because I don’t understand that I’m confined. And if I don’t understand that I’m confined, I can be certain that I don’t understand my need for God. And that is likely the greatest confinement of all.”

“The truth is, the Devil’s job is easy.”