Quote 500

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

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

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

Avoid trivial pursuits. You are a child of God, destined for glory, and called to do great things in His Name. Do not waste your life on hobbies, sports, and other recreational pursuits. Do not throw away the precious moments of your life on entertainment, movies, and video games. Though some of these things can properly have a 'small place' in the Christian's life, we must be careful not to give undue attention to temporal and fruitless activities. Do not waste your life. Employ the time of your youth in developing the character and skills necessary to be a useful servant of God.

Time Hobbies Wasted Life

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.

Preachers should not give sinners what they desire; but give them True Food until, by the Spirit, they taste and see that the Lord is good!

Preaching

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)

Do not look for the Church nearest to your house. Look for the Church closest to the Bible.

Scripture

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

Go offer your employer how much you offer God, see how long you last.

Worldliness

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

It's Christ or nothing. And you better want it that way. Why? If it was 99.99% Christ and 0.01% you, you'd go to hell.

http://youtu.be/9W2fuFWUIL0 (around 54 minutes in)

The Gospel does not call us to receive Christ as an addition to our life, but as our life.

When will we realize that one of the greatest mission fields in the West is the pews of our churches every Sunday morning?

Church False Belief

How could we have such a low view of the gospel of Jesus Christ that we have to manipulate men psychologically to get them to come down and pray a prayer? ...How many times have I heard evangelists say, "It'll only take five minutes."? No my dear friend, it will take your life-all of it! "We're just trying to attract people and then we'll gradually bring them in further and further." That is what the cults do, that's not what Jesus did. Notice that in the gospels every time a great crowd is following Jesus, he turns around and says something so radical to them that most of them walk away. Of course Jesus probably would not get invited to teach evangelism

Do you wonder about the trials in your life? Well let me just let you know the purpose of them is to cut away everything in your life, so that Jesus does become your life, and it's worth it.

Suffering

It makes me so angry, when men treat the glorious gospel of Christ as though it was a first step into Christianity, that takes ten minutes of counselling, and then you go onto greater stuff.

You need grace! But someone says if you throw that much grace around it will be a liscence for sin. Only among the unconverted Church members. Oh they will take it as an excuse for sin. The genuinely converted will say this, if grace be such. If it be so large and so wide... depths I cannot sound. Then oh let me be holy!

Unknown

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWMrKcFKqzk

Grace

False teachers are God's judgment on people who don't want God but in the name of religion plan on getting everything their carnal heart desires. That's why a Joel Osteen is raised up. Those people who sit under him are not victims of him, he is the judgment of God upon them, because they want exactly what he wants, and it's not God.

Judgement False Teachers

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