The Christian living in disobedience also lives devoid of joy and hope. But when he begins to understand that Christ has delivered him from the reign of sin, when he begins to see that he is united to Him who has all power and authority and that it is possible to walk in obedience, he begins to have hope, and as he hopes in Christ, he begins to have joy. In the strength of this joy, he begins to overcome the sins that have so easily entangle him. He then finds that the joy of a holy walk is infinitely more satisfying than the fleeting pleasures of sin. But to experience this joy, we must make some choices. We must choose to forsake sin, not only because it is defeating to us but because it grieves the heart of God.
Jerry BridgesTag: joy sin holiness disobedience
I find something repulsive about the idea of vicarious redemption. I would not throw my numberless sins onto a scapegoat and expect them to pass from me; we rightly sneer at the barbaric societies that practice this unpleasantness in its literal form. There's no moral value in the vicarious gesture anyway. As Thomas Paine pointed out, you may if you wish take on a another man's debt, or even to take his place in prison. That would be self-sacrificing. But you may not assume his actual crimes as if they were your own; for one thing you did not commit them and might have died rather than do so; for another this impossible action would rob him of individual responsibility. So the whole apparatus of absolution and forgiveness strikes me as positively immoral, while the concept of revealed truth degrades the concept of free intelligence by purportedly relieving us of the hard task of working out the ethical principles for ourselves.
Christopher HitchensTag: religion sin forgiveness responsibility absolution redemption scapegoating immorality
But why think the more reasons there were to sin, the smaller the sin was?
Zadie SmithTag: sin
The more righteous God appeared, the more resentful I became.
Joni Eareckson TadaTolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are.
Oswald ChambersTag: christianity sin saint sanctification
Little faults become great, and even monstrous in our eyes, in proportion as the pure light of God increases in us; just as the sun in rising, reveals the true dimensions of objects which were dimly and confusedly discovered during the night.
François FénelonTag: sin self-knowledge self-improvement spiritual-growth
There is within the human heart a tough fibrous root of fallen life whose nature is to possess, always to possess. It covets `things' with a deep and fierce passion. The pronouns `my' and `mine' look innocent enough in print, but their constant and universal use is significant. They express the real nature of the old Adamic man better than a thousand volumes of theology could do. They are verbal symptoms of our deep disease. The roots of our hearts have grown down into things, and we dare not pull up one rootlet lest we die. Things have become necessary to us, a development never originally intended. God's gifts now take the place of God, and the whole course of nature is upset by the monstrous substitution.
A.W. TozerTag: sin disease spiritual-life
We run to place and power over the dead bodies of those who fail and fall; ay, we win the food we eat from out the mouths of starving babes.
H. Rider HaggardTag: humanity society mankind sin balance triumph survival crime good-and-evil cost price give-and-take
There is no sin unless through a man's own will, and hence the reward when we do right things also of our own will."
(Against Fortunatus)
Tag: free-will sin salvation self-determination
There is no repentance where a man can talk lightly of sin, much less where he can speak tenderly and lovingly of it.
Charles Haddon SpurgeonTag: sin repentance
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