8. Sin

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 6:23

Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache. > Hungarian Proverb

The sins of the flesh are bad, but they are the least bad of all sins. All the worst pleasures are purely spiritual: the pleasure of putting other people in the wrong, of bossing and patronising and spoiling sport, and back-biting; the pleasures of power, of hatred… That is why a cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to hell than a prostitute. But, of course, it is better to be neither. > C. S. Lewis

Man calls it an accident; God calls it an abomination.

Man calls it a blunder; God calls it blindness.

Man calls it a defect; God calls it disease.

Man calls it a chance; God calls it a choice.

Man calls it an error; God calls it an enmity.

Man calls it a fascination; God calls it a fatality.

Man calls it an infirmity; God calls it an iniquity.

Man calls it a luxury; God calls it leprosy.

Man calls it a liberty; God calls it lawlessness.

Man calls it a trifle; God calls it a madness.

Man calls it a weakness; God calls it wilfulness. > Moody Monthly

We shall never understand anything of our Lord’s preaching and ministry unless we continually keep in mind what exactly and exclusively his errand was in the world. Sin was his errand in this world, and it was his only errand. He would never been in this world, either preaching or doing anything else but for sin. He could have done everything else for us without coming down into this world at all; everything else but take away our sin. > Alexander Whyte

A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. > Washington Irving

There are only two kinds of people: the righteous who believe themselves sinners, and the rest, sinners who believers themselves righteous. > Blaise Pascal

One reason sin flourishes it that it is treated like a cream puff instead of a rattlesnake. > Billy Sunday

See also Psalm 51:1-17; Isaiah 1:18; Matthew 9:10-12.