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    Edna Hong
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    ..a guilty suffering spirit is more open to grace than an apathetic or smug soul. Therefore, an age without a sense of sin, in which people are not even sorry for not being sorry for their sins, is in...

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    Blaise Pascal
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    Jeremiah 17:9, Genesis 6:5, Psalm 51:5, Ecclesiastes 7:20, Romans 3:10-12, Romans 7:18-23, Ephesians 2:1-5
    The more enlightened we are, the more greatness and vileness we discover in man.

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    Martin Luther
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    The recognition of sin is the beginning of salvation.

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    David Foster Wallace
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    Look, the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they're evil or sinful; it is that they are unconscious. They are default-settings. They're the kind of worship you just grad...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Hebrews 12:1-2, 2 Corinthians 12:9, Romans 7:18-19, James 4:8, Isaiah 64:6, 1 John 1:8-9, Psalm 51:2-3
    It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence.

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    Timothy Keller
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    2 Corinthians 12:9-10, Proverbs 28:13, Matthew 5:3, Isaiah 6:5, Psalm 51:3-4, James 4:10
    If I am in denial about my own weaknesses and sin, there will be a concomitant blindness to the greatness and glory of God.

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    Dane C. Ortlund
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    Psalm 51:17, Romans 7:18, Matthew 5:3, Romans 3:10
    Feel your sinfulness. Let it humble you. Let it sober you. Beware of so filling your life with talk shows and phone calls that you don’t regularly stop and consider the ruinous condition of your life ...

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    Henry Fairlie
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    Philippians 3:12-14, 2 Corinthians 5:17, Galatians 5:16-17, Romans 6:23, Romans 7:18-20
    If we acknowledge that our inclination to sin is part of our natures, and that we will never wholly eradicate it, there is at least something for us to do in our lives that will not in the end seem ju...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Luke 18:13-14, Romans 5:8, Mark 2:17, 1 John 1:8-10, Isaiah 53:6, Jeremiah 17:9, Romans 3:23
    A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world H...

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    Dorothy L. Sayers
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    Matthew 16:24-25, Proverbs 3:5-6, James 4:7, Romans 8:7, Galatians 5:17
    Sin is a deep interior dislocation of the soul. It's a desire to keep control of your life.

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    Jerry Bridges
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    Our first problem is that our attitude towards sin is more self-centered than God-centered. We are more concerned about our own "Victory" over sin than we are about the fact that our sin gri...

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    Glen Scrivener
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    Ephesians 2:1-2, Romans 7:18-20, Romans 3:23, Psalm 51:5, Romans 5:12
    The next time you say something deceitful, hurtful or proud, you cannot say “I don’t know what came over me.” Nothing came over you. Such sins come _out_of you. They come from a wellspring that is ver...

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    Shusaku Endo
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    Luke 10:30-37, Isaiah 58:6-7, 1 John 3:17, Romans 13:10, Proverbs 14:21
    “Sin, he reflected, is not what it is usually thought to be; it is not to steal and tell lies. Sin is for one man to walk brutally over the life of another and to be quite oblivious of the wounds he h...

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    Anna Godbersen
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    “We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimates’ faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in the strange movements of everyday objects.”

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    Martin Luther
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    Luke 5:31-32, 1 Timothy 1:15, 1 John 1:9, Romans 5:6-8, Mark 2:17, Isaiah 1:18, Micah 7:18-19
    It is quite enough that you have sinned. Now let go of it. Don’t let your despondency lead to an even greater offence. The Lord says, ‘I do not wish the death of the sinner, but rather that he repent ...

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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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    A man who confesses his sins in the presence of a brother knows that he is no longer alone with himself; he experiences the presence of God in the reality of the other person. As long as I am by mysel...

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    Jerry Bridges
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    Believers who are growing continue to see more sin in their lives. It is not that they are sinning more; rather they are becoming more aware of and more sensitive to the sin that has been there all al...

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    Augustine of Hippo
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    Sin comes when we take a perfectly natural desire or longing or ambition and try desperately to fulfill it without God. Not only is it sin, it is a perverse distortion of the image of the Creator in u...

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    Timothy Keller
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    Galatians 5:17, Isaiah 59:2, 2 Peter 2:19, John 8:34, Romans 7:18-19, Proverbs 5:22
    Sin is a suicidal action of the will upon itself. It is like taking an addicting drug. At first it may feel wonderful, but every time it gets harder to not do it again.

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    Karl Barth
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    Sin is not confined to the evil things we do. It is the evil within us, the evil which we are.

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    Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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    Genesis 4:3-10 , 1 Samuel 15:13-24 , Isaiah 29:13-15 , Luke 18:9-14, James 2:10-13 , Psalm 32:3-5
    We readily confess our little faults in order to suggest that we have no big ones.

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    Simone Weil
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    Revelation 21:6, Matthew 5:6, Isaiah 55:1-2, Psalm 16:11, John 4:13-14, Jeremiah 2:13, Romans 3:23
    Every sin is an attempt to fly from emptiness.

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    Mark Batterson
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    Hebrews 13:16, Matthew 25:40, 1 Peter 2:12, Galatians 5:13, Matthew 5:16, James 2:17, James 4:17
    We fixate on sins of commission far too much. We practice holiness by subtraction-don't do this, don't do that, and you're okay. The problem with that is this: you can do nothing wrong and...

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    Jim Cymbala
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    Luke 19:10
    One way to recognize whether we suffer from this disconnection is to look at our concern for people who are dirty... people who are "other"... people who don't fit the core group's i...

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    D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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    Jeremiah 17:9, Proverbs 16:2, 1 John 1:8, James 1:22-24, Psalm 19:12, Matthew 7:3-5
    You will never make yourself feel that you are a sinner, because there is a mechanism in you as a result of sin that will always be defending you against every accusation. We are all on very good term...

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    Søren Kierkegaard
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    2 Timothy 3:13, Hebrews 3:12-13, Ephesians 4:18-19, Proverbs 5:22, Romans 1:21, Psalm 36:1-2
    Sin is a position which out of itself develops a more and more positive continuity. . . .Sin grows every instant one does not get out of it.

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    Jamie Dimon
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    Isaiah 1:18, 2 Chronicles 7:14, Romans 3:23-24, Psalm 32:5, Acts 3:19, Proverbs 28:13
    We know mistakes were made.

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    Anthony of Sourozh
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    Public confession requires several conditions. First, a person who has acted against the integrity of the Body, the integrity of its faith, must be prepared to expose himself because what matters is h...

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    Timothy Keller
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    John 14:6, Genesis 11:1-9, Isaiah 64:6, Romans 1:25, Proverbs 3:5-6, Jeremiah 17:5
    Sin is looking to something else besides God for your salvation. It is putting yourself in the place of God, becoming your own savior and lord, as it were.

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    Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
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    To speak of sin without grace is to minimize the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the fruit of the Spirit, and the hope of shalom.
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