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Indeed there is no little sin because there is no little God to sin against.

A Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, 5:500

John Trapp

You are required to believe, to preach, and to teach what the Bible says is true, not what you want the Bible to say is true.

Chosen by God, p. 12

Preaching

That is why the unregenerate person cannot understand the urgency of the gospel message: until they see the depth of their sin and the holiness of God, they find no reason to seek remedy for their condition.

James White

When I turn to the map of the world I must say the same thing. It matters not what quarter I examine: I find men's hearts are everywhere the same, and everywhere wicked. Sin is the family disease of all the children of Adam.

Old Paths, Ch 7

J.C. Ryle

God is never, never, never obligated to be merciful to sinners. That is the point we must stress if we are to grasp the full measure of God's grace.

Chosen by God (26)

Mercy

we live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization.

"Burning Hearts Are Not Nourished by Empty Heads", Christianity Today (Sep 3 1982)

Truth

You can never part with sin soon enough; it is a cursed inmate, that will surely bring mischief upon the soul that harbours it. It will set its own dwelling on fire.

Works 7:147

Thomas Manton

Guilt and pain are gifts of God to warn us that the pleasures of sin are suicidal. Though they may feel good in the moment.

SermonNov122000

The law we are called to obey is a law that comes from Him. It is His law. It is a law that defines a relationship— the relationship between the Creator and the creature, between the sovereign and the vassal, between the King and His subjects. Not only is it His law in the sense that it comes from Him, but most significantly, it is a law that comes from and reflects His own character. It reveals and displays His righteousness, and therefore, it makes known what righteousness is. Notice that order. It is not that we first have a sense of righteousness and then we see that God conforms to it. Rather, first there is God in His perfect character, who is the standard of righteousness, and all righteousness is the revelation of who He is.

How Does God\'s Law Apply to Me?

The Law God's Nature

The death of God's Son is a greater proof to God's abhorrence of sin than if all humanity had been damned for it forever.

At the heart of all sin is a lie. The lie says to all of us in our sin, "The act you are now doing, the desire or attitude you are now feeling is not very bad because there are much worse things, not very bad because everyone else experiences the same things, not very bad because you can't help it, not very bad because there is no God, or, if that won't work, God knows you are but frail and weak and he will tolerate and pity your sin." There are a thousand distortions of the truth which sin brings with it into the human heart, so that Jeremiah cries out, "The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately corrupt; who can understand it?" (17:9).

When my thirst for joy and meaning and passion are satisfied by the presence and promises of Christ, the power of sin is broken.

Future Grace (335)

The fourth commandment reads, "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy" (Ex. 20:8). Note that it does not say, "From this point on, the Sabbath should be regarded as holy." Instead, it says to remember that it is already holy; the command is simply to keep it that way

How Does God\'s Law Apply To Me?

Sabbath The Lord's Day

A sheep may fall into a ditch, but it is the swine that wallows in it.

William Gurnall

If anyone would feel the greatness of sin he would not be able to go on living another moment; so great is the power of sin.

Martin Luther

We don't know how much we've sinned in the same way a fish doesn't know how wet it is.

Sermon: The Greatest Words in All of Scripture

Paul Washer

Most of us have heard the idea that you can't legislate morality. But this is actually a nonsensical statement. If we mean to say that the government shouldn't be involved in passing legislation that curbs, restrains, or restricts human behavior or morality, there would be nothing left for Congress to do except assign names to government buildings.

How Does God\'s Law Apply to Me?

Government Morality

God is a law unto Himself. This differs from the idea that God is ex lex in that the behavior of God is never lawless. The actions of God are always in conformity to the law of God's own nature and character, which is inherently righteous and eternally holy. All of His actions come forth according to who He is.

How Does God\'s Law Apply to Me?

The Law God's Nature

Sin may be comprehensively defined as lack of conformity to the law of God in act, habit, attitude, outlook, disposition, motivation, and mode of existence.

Concise Theology, Section 31

J.I. Packer

Faith is not believing in God; it's believing God.

Faith

When I think I am unfairly hated, I try to remember that I am unfairly loved.

Hatred Love

When a man truly sees himself, he knows nobody can say anything about him that is too bad.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones