Sin is what is new, strong, surprising, strange. The theatre must take an interest in sin if the young are to be able to go there.

Delight is délice, délit is a misdemeanour''Well, it's bloody close...''Well, they often are....

We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.

Left to itself, a heart will run riot with sin. But if a heart responds to the ministry of the Word, there can be fruit and beauty.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

The way to conquer sin is not by working hard to change our deeds, but by trusting Jesus to change our desires. Follow Me, pg. 111.

Telling people they don't have a sin nature doesn't promote sin anymore than telling a slave they are free promotes slavery.

There is an obsession in the Church with sin management. People think more about their sins than about their redemption through Jesus

Vainglory, however, no matter how much medieval Christianity insisted it was a sin, is a motor of mankind, no more eradicable than sex.

My confidence is in the idea that I may be wrong on this or that. No man in this life should ever have to bear the burden of perfection.

In crime and enmity they lie Who sin and tell us love can die, Who say to us in slander's breath That love belongs to sin and death.

We become so accustomed to our sins we sometimes lapse into a state of peaceful coexistence with them, but God never ceases to hate them.

I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.

The conscious attempt to be a good person without Christ is as legalistic as an attempt to make it into Heaven through empty religiosity.

Human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to believe in a certain way, and can't really get rid of it.