all sin QUOTES

1 " Nowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn't share our rating system. To him, all sin is equally evil, and all sinners are equally lovable. "

― Judah Smith , Jesus Is: Find a New Way to Be Human

2 " Increasingly, I'm coming to believe that fear is at the heart of all sin and disaffection. Fear that God will not be enough for us; fear that the identity we've been given is somehow incomplete. "

― , Prototype: What Happens When You Discover You're More Like Jesus Than You Think?

3 " There is spiritual edification in recognizing that God stays faithful in his covenants, that he forgives all sin despite whatever historical or sociopolitical circumstance. "

4 " The world, my friend Govinda, is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment, all sin already carries the divine forgiveness in itself, all small children already have the old person in themselves, all infants already have death, all dying people the eternal life. "

― Hermann Hesse

5 " Those who have castrated themselves from all sin for the sake of the kingdom of heaven, are blessed; they abstain from the world. "

― Clement of Alexandria

6 " In confession occurs the breakthrough of the Cross. The root of all sin is pride, superbia. I want to be my own law, I have a right to my self, my hatred and my desires, my life and my death. The mind and flesh of man are set on fire by pride; for it is precisely in his wickedness that man wants to be as God. Confession in the presence of a brother is the profoundest kind of humiliation. It hurts, it cuts a man down, it is a dreadful blow to pride...In the deep mental and physical pain of humiliation before a brother - which means, before God - we experience the Cross of Jesus as our rescue and salvation. The old man dies, but it is God who has conquered him. Now we share in the resurrection of Christ and eternal life. "

― Dietrich Bonhoeffer , Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

7 " The world, my friend Govinda, is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment, all sin already carries the divine forgiveness in itself. "

― Hermann Hesse , Siddhartha

8 " The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that. "