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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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    Frederick Buechner
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    To confess your sins to God is not to tell [God] anything [God] doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you. When you confess them, they become the bridge...

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    Gerald G. May
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    Genesis 3:6, Ecclesiastes 1:8, Romans 7:14-25, Galatians 5:16-21, Psalm 16:21
    To be alive is to be addicted, and to be alive and addicted is to stand in need of grace.

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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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    Gerard Manley Hopkins
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    Hebrews 12:2, Romans 5:1, Philippians 4:6-7, Isaiah 64:6, Psalm 51:10, 1 John 1:8-9
    Myself unholy, from myself unholy to the sweet living of my friends I look—eye-greeting doves bright-counter to the rook, fresh sand to salt sand-teasing waters shoaly:—and they are purér, but alas! n...

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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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    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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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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    Romans 5:8, John 21:15-19, Jonah 3:4, Matthew 18:21-35, 2 Samuel 12:1-7, Romans 14:10-13, James 4:11-12
    Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating. By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.

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    Tony Reinke
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    Satan blinds hearts by filling eyes with worthless things. His veil over human hearts today is a veil of pixels, and the chains of his spiritual bondage are tethered to the world’s theater.

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    Fanny Crosby
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    Matthew 5:8, Isaiah 42:16, Psalm 27:4, John 9:39, Revelation 22:4, 1 Corinthians 13:12, Hebrews 11:1
    If I had a choice, I would still choose to remain blind... for when I die, the first face I will ever see will be the face of my blessed Savior.

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    George Herbert
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    Who would know Sin, let him repair Unto Mount Olivet; there shall he see A man so wrung with pains, that all his hair, His skin, his garments bloody be. Sin is that press and vice, which forceth pain ...

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    Jonathan Swift
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    2 Peter 1:9, Ephesians 4:18, Revelation 3:17, Romans 1:21, 2 Corinthians 4:4, Matthew 15:14
    There's none so blind as they that won't see.

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    Teresa of Avila
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    My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The ey...

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    Blaise Pascal
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    Proverbs 14:12, 1 Peter 1:15-16, Galatians 6:7, James 1:22, Romans 2:6
    If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God.

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    Thomas Kelly
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    Matthew 6:10, Micah 6:8, John 3:30, Colossians 3:1-2, Isaiah 26:3
    Humility rests upon a Holy blindedness, like the blindedness of him who looks steadily into the sun. For wherever he turns his eyes on earth, there he sees only the sun. The God-blinded soul sees naug...

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    Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
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    John 3:16, 2 Corinthians 5:21, Psalm 103:10-12, Ephesians 2:4-5, Romans 5:8, 1 John 1:8-9, Romans 3:23-24
    I am more sinful and flawed than I ever dared believe, more loved and welcomed than I ever dared hope.

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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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    Original Author Unknown
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    1 Peter 2:9, John 12:46, 1 Thessalonians 5:5, Psalm 119:105, 2 Corinthians 4:6, Isaiah 60:1
    Blind in heart since my birth, I come to you, Light of the World...Let me live as a child of light.

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    Max Lucado
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    To see sin without grace is despair. To see grace without sin is arrogance. To see them in tandem is conversion.

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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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    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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    Timothy Keller
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    Isaiah 44:20, Luke 16:13, Jeremiah 2:13, 1 John 5:21, Matthew 6:21
    Sin isn’t only doing bad things, it is more fundamentally making good things into ultimate things. Sin is building your life and meaning on anything, even a very good thing, more than on God. Whatever...

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    Helen Keller
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    Matthew 13:13, Matthew 13:1-23, Isaiah 6:9-10, John 9:39-41, 2 Corinthians 4:4, Ephesians 1:18
    I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light, but who see nothing in wood, sea, or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books.... It were better far to sail forever in the night of blind...

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    Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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    Hebrews 12:11, 1 Corinthians 5:12, Ezekiel 3:18, Proverbs 27:5-6, Matthew 18:15, Galatians 6:1
    Nothing can be more cruel than that leniency which abandons others to their sin.

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    Stanley Hauerwas
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    Colossians 3:5, John 8:34, 2 Peter 2:19, 1 Timothy 6:9-10, Romans 6:16
    Nothing enslaves more than that which we think we cannot live without.

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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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    Brennan Manning
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    If we continue to focus solely on the sinner/saint duality in our person and conduct, while ignoring the raging opposition between the Pharisee and the child, spiritual growth will come to an abrupt s...

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    Cornelius Plantinga, Jr.
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    [T]he sober truth is that without a full disclosure on sin, the gospel of grace becomes impertinent, unnecessary, and finally uninteresting.

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    A. W. Tozer
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    A man by his sin may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man’s greatest tragedy and God’s heaviest grief.

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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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