How To Use Sinner In A Sentence

He begins by accepting the very dubious identification of her with the ‘woman who was a sinner’ and who anointed the feet of Christ.
Is showing love, or even friendship, with the sinner a sign of condoning the sin?
By conflating the stories in this way the fresco underscores the identity of the unnamed sinner with Mary Magdalen.
I don't give plugs as a rule, but I make an honourable exception for the annual Saints & Sinners meeting at Hamilton on Wednesday.
I move on like a sinners prayer. I let them go like a levee breaks.

The Word must have a central place - for by it God regenerates sinners and reaffirms his authority over men.
I am still a sinner, but I can say with assurance that I am a sinner saved by God's grace.
Some protest that this affirmation comes at a cost: you cannot receive it unless you first abase yourself as a hopeless and helpless sinner in need of redemption.
But whennot the sinner is praised in the desires of his soul, 95 nor he blessed who doth ungodlily, 96 buta man is praised for some gift which Thou hast given him, and he rejoices more at the praise for himself than that he hath the gift for which he is praised, he also is praised, while Thou dispraisest; and better is he who praised than he who is praised. The Tenth Book
Trusting in her intercession with Christ, who whereas He is the "one mediator of God and men" (1 Timothy ii, 5), chose to make His Mother the advocate of sinners, and the minister and mediatress of grace, as an earnest of heavenly gifts and as a token of Our paternal affection we most lovingly impart the Apostolic Blessing to you, Venerable Brethren, and to all the flock committed to your care. Latest Articles
But I speak with practical accuracy when I give that title to such views as on the whole affirm the attainableness here below of a spiritual condition in which man needs no longer confess himself as now a sinner, and in which his attention tends to be drawn more to his perfectness than to his imperfections of condition. Philippian Studies Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians
At the church gates is the historical _jougs_, a place of penance for the neck of detected sinners, and the historical _louping-on stane_, from which Dutch-built lairds and farmers climbed into the saddle. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)
O Jesu Christ, who might be so blessed that might see openly thy great marvels of secretness there where no sinner may be! Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
Gradually the call to preach ‘the glorious gospel of the blessed God, the gospel of the good news to lost sinners’, had been developing in Richard.
Hate the sin but not the sinner.
Pauline asked whether she would be willing to forego her drink of water `to save a poor sinner. RIDDLE ME THIS
They are wicked, ungodly sinners.
a regenerate sinner
A despicable villain tempts a sinner and lures him into sin, alienation, and damnation.
Even saints can be sinners, and as many studies have shown, divorce, premarital sex, and so forth are not significantly lower among religious Americans than among secular Americans.30 Rather, our interpretation is that religious Americans are readier to condemn all violations of conventional morality, including civic morality. American Grace
But by this time she was sufficiently under that young sinner 's thumb to be ready to follow bald-headed wherever she went. CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
And he will try to demonstrate that he is a sinner on a grand scale, which the poor soul is not.
Yet both virgin saint and unrepentant sinner must fall within the range of humanity.
Of Sinners 'tis said, _They heap up wrath; _ and the sinners of the Last Generations do not only add unto the _heap_ of sin that has been pileing up ever since the Fall of man, but they Interest themselves in every sin of that enormous heap. The Wonders of the Invisible World Being an Account of the Tryals of Several Witches Lately Executed in New-England, to which is added A Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches
It is, in my judgment, a very laudable course of some churches, that use, for the next three days together, to desire the congregation to join in earnest prayer to God for the opening of the sinner's eyes, and the softening of his heart, and the saving of him from impenitency and eternal death. The Reformed Pastor
lamenting sinners
Everyone is a sinner and God will of course forgive those who truly repent.
Accordingly, he could not find in his heart to behave inexorably to the graceful sinner; he entered into conversation, and learned from her the project of a singular disguisement, wherewith it was intended to surprise the Countess. Chapter X. Book III
The agreement proclaimed ‘a consensus in basic truths’ on how sinners are justified, or deemed righteous, in God's sight.
But he again affirms, in the same chapter, “That the justice of God is twofold: that one kind he always uses when he punishes abandonedly wicked and obstinate sinners, sometimes, according to his law; the other kind, when he punishes sinners neither obstinate nor altogether desperate, but whose repentance is not expected.” A Dissertation on Divine Justice
We are actors in nature and time, essential parts of the universe story, main protagonists - not doomed sinners or abject sufferers.
Little wonder that both saint and sinner loved this Christly man! Fletcher of Madeley
Now he that flatters another induces him to sin mortally: hence a gloss on Ps. 140: 5, "Let not the oil of the sinner fatten my head," says: "The false praise of the flatterer softens the mind by depriving it of the rigidity of truth and renders it susceptive of vice. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
But, as with our slowness to believe we are sinners, so we are slow to believe sin can really be redeemed.
A sinner so signally lov'd, -- and hearing my Mother, her eyes brimming with tears and her alabastrine fingers tightly locked together, murmur in unconscious repetition: Father and Son: a study of two temperaments
It was then the task of the converted to go amongst other sinners, wherever they might be found, and crusade to save souls.
That God is willing that all should be saved, appears from the sufficiency of the provision which is made for the salvation of sinners; the frequent declarations that it is designed for all; the offers which are made indiscriminately to all; and the suitableness of the provision to the circumstances of all.
According to the kabbalist concept, the dybbuk is a soul - in most cases of a sinner - that has not found a home (it is in a liminal state) either in heaven or in hell. San Francisco Sentinel
a suppliant sinner seeking forgiveness
We might express a just surprise that Catholics should be offended at the doctrine that the righteousness of Christ is imputed, that is, reckoned or counted, to the sinner as his own. Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation
Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all. William Shakespeare
The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners! Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences
I think what happens is we have these two tendencies, divine and diabolical, the sinner and the saint, the sacred and profane.
Note, The end of the sinner's mirth and jollity is heaviness. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
A sinner who has begun to repent is surely in a better moral position than one who continues flagrantly to offend, is he not? The EU Python Constricts All
As expected, there is a transferral of hatred from the sin to the sinner.
Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil - doers?
In their corrupt and shadowy pursuit of what they consider to be evil, they themselves become more insidiously black-hearted than the repentant sinner they pursue.
I may be a sinner, but the sinner whom these prayers were describing was not me.
And the righteous and elect shall be saved on that day, and they shall never thenceforward see the face of the sinners and unrighteous.
More to the point, Christians of many persuasions and nuances try to reconcile Jesus, friend of sinners, to Jesus, sinless Son of God.
- to whom, when sickened with the praises of all other men, I could daily betake myself, and be known as the vilest of all sinners, methinks my soul might keep itself alive thereby.
If _gourmandize_ be the favorite failing in these parts, there is surely some excuse for the sinners. Border and Bastille
God reprobated the unrepenting sinner
Con Maynard, sitting at the head of the table, overheard and gave the sinner a warning look. CHALLENGE FOR THE CHALET SCHOOL
Hate the sinners who won't atone translates to hate the liberals who won't agree. Election Central Morning Roundup
The sinners will be tormented in hell, according to the bible.
As Luther perceived, the Christian heart is fully aware that it continues in sin and in grace together, as a sinner and damned as such, and as a child of God already elect.
To Pastor Wheaton, who graciously consented to assume responsibility for my body, I appreciate your humbleness and willingness to help this sinner. Miracles, Inc.
God is not only mercy for sinners and outcasts but manna for everyone.
If you don't turn to your life over to God he can't hear the prayer of a sinner.
It is he that makes the sinner see all the deformity and filthiness that is within; it is he that pulleth off all the sinner's rags, and makes him see his naked and wretched condition; it is he that shows us the blindness of the mind, the stubbornness of the will, the disorderedness of the affections, the searedness of the conscience, the plague of our hearts, and the sin of our natures, and therein the desperateness of our state. The Almost Christian Discovered; or, the False Professor Tried and Cast.
His was a vicarious death, both sacrificial (for sin) and substitutionary (for the sinner).
I am a sinner, Lord, and confess my sin.
Luis Ojeda, who humbly took to himself the title of _Luis el Pecador_ (Luis the Sinner), bequeathed all his fortune to the foundation of this establishment, which received the name of "Collegio de Santa Cruz de los niños expositos." [ Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests
What, with careless exaggeration, he had said to a friend some months before, on setting forth his _Elegy on the Death of a Young Man_, "The thing has made my name hereabouts more famous than twenty years of practice would have done; but it is a name like that of him who burnt the Temple of Ephesus: God be merciful to me a sinner!" might now with all seriousness be said of the impression his _Robbers_ made on the harmless townsfolk of Stuttgart. The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works
If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also. Robert Louis Stevenson
God (saith [6779] Fulgentius) is delighted in the conversion of a sinner, he sets no time; prolixitas temporis Deo non praejudicat, aut gravitas peccati, deferring of time or grievousness of sin, do not prejudicate his grace, things past and to come are all one to Him, as present: 'tis never too late to repent. Anatomy of Melancholy
Dahlia . We fight for the sin, not the sinner.
Friend of publicans and sinners, you make the angels laugh and heaven rejoice.
So even though they are sinners, they can know purpose and meaning in life through receiving Jesus Christ, and be saved for eternity.
Nevertheless, as long as I am in this world I remain a sinner, still capable of letting him down.
Saints are forgiven sinners living by faith, witnessing to God's love, serving humanity, caring for creation.
Impunity hardens sinners in impiety, and the patience of God is shamefully abused by many who, instead of being led by it to repentance, are confirmed by it in their impenitence. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
Obviously, Paul is talking about sinners if they are not saved while Jesus is talking about those publicans and harlots that believed in him.
And all this time I've felt like a sinner for even daring to think about you. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
He laughed exceedingly, diverse times clapping his hands on his thighs for joy: percase to shadow out the delight, that both himself, and sinners take in their sins.
Moving across the earth, close to the ground, in a small band of fellow penitents bearing a pilgrim scallop shell as their talisman, sinners pondered their own life journey, and listened to the tales of others along the way.
The death that is in the curse is put into his hand to manage it, to the dread and terror of sinners; and by it he bath always kept many, and to this day doth keep innumerable souls in unexpressible bondage, putting them upon barbarous inhumanities to make atonement for their sins, and forcing some to inflict revenge and destruction upon themselves, thinking to prevent, but really hastening, that which they fear. The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
Remember that whole love the sinner, hate the sin dichotomy? Think Progress » Archdiocese responds to controversy over its decision to kick children with lesbian parents out of school.
Or, "I came not to call the righteous," that is, the feignedly righteous, those who boasted of their righteousness as the Pharisees, but those that owned themselves sinners. Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
In a late conversation, you desired my thoughts concerning a scriptural and consistent manner of addressing the consciences of unawakened sinners in the course of your ministry.
Will it not follow that he is so, if he engage us to receive a doctrine that gives liberty to sin, or by which we are so far from being justified that we remain impure sinners, and unfit to be conversed with? Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
Adam; no hope, no aftergame for him as a sinner: yet let us peruse the obligations that lay upon him as a man. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
But, also as a sinner, I simply don't understand how a man who long supported — consistently, ardently, proudly — abortion, contraceptives, "gay marriage", embryonic stell research, and the staggering growth and expansion of statism, could say he has "always tried to be a faithful Catholic. The funeral and the letter
Luther's main complaint against the Catholic Church was that it was supporting a system that left sinners in sin - and this was the institution that was meant to save lost souls!
When our message is that God is mercy for outcasts and sinners and manna for everyone, how can we not preach?
They were told of how these sinners writhed and danced to their wicked music in an unholy reverence to their false idol.
Such texts are by no means a straightforward reflection of the actual behaviour of ordinary sinners, but they do reveal a lot about the aims and perceptions of those trying to build a Christian society.
I am here as the chief of sinners saved by grace and to tell you that the grace which has saved me can surely save you.
Does it bring glory to the Son of God as the only dispenser of grace to guilty sinners - and the only way to God?
Just before the final dive into the Pacific Ocean, she is heard leading the sinner's prayer for salvation.
_punish_ sin while at the same time He _pardons_ it, -- can punish it in the Substitute while He pardons it in the sinner, -- it is not until he is enabled to apprehend the doctrine of _vicarious_ atonement, that his doubts and fears respecting the possibility and reality of the Divine mercy are removed. Sermons to the Natural Man
They are called Sixtusses, after that pious old Sixtus V. who hanged a publican and wine-seller sinner in front of his shop for blasphemously expressing his opinion as to the correctness of charging four times as much to put the fluoric-acid government stamp on them as the glass cost. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
Hence are the various courses of unhumbled sinners in the world, wherein the outrage and excess of some seems to justify others in their more sedate irregularities and less conspicuous provocations. Pneumatologia
They that "know the truth," the truth of the gospel, spiritually and experimentally, especially that great truth, free and full salvation by Christ for sinners, "the truth shall make them free," set them at liberty, and fill them with joy and peace.
To these professed atheists, we may well add that impious and carnal crew of worldly-minded men, impenitent sinners, that go to hell in a lethargy, or in a dream; who though they be professed Anatomy of Melancholy
After the first long sermon preaches a doomsday envisionment of religion, where a vindictive God has nothing but wrath for sinners, he is sure that every word was aimed at him.
Pauline asked whether she would be willing to forego her drink of water `to save a poor sinner. RIDDLE ME THIS
As he treats of sin, righteousness, and a judgment to cyme, and holds up as sacrifice for sin and a mediator for man the crucified Lord, every heart becomes softened, sinners go by tens and by scores to the anxious seat; Christians become aroused; fear and shame are lost, and all in some way join in the work. One of the wonders of the age, or, The life and times of Rev. Johnson Olive, Wake County, North Carolina,
Esquimaux, with his daily twenty-pound quantum of train-oil, gravy, and tallow-candles, -- the alderman puffing over callipash and callipee, -- the backwoodsman hungering after fattest of pork, -- such men as these were no common sinners: they were assassins who struck at the very fountain of life, and throttled a human stomach. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864
That means also that the world round them has again returned to the Greek conviction, that all nature, especially human nature, is not entirely melodious nor luminous; but a barred and broken thing: that saints have their foibles, sinners their forces; that the most luminous virtue is often only a flash, and the blackest-looking fault is sometimes only a stain: and, without confusing in the least black with white, they can forgive, or even take delight in things that are like the [Greek: nebris], dappled. Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870
‘Love the sinner, hate the sin,’ say some of the fundies.
Allow taxpayers to retain more of what they earn and those heedless sinners would only fill their homes with even more immoral gizmos.
It hushes the infant to its slumbers in the cradle with a song whose theme is the babe of Bethlehem; it allures the child to virtue by the example of Josiah, Timothy, and Samuel; it warns the wayward youth, and reproves the erring man, and calls the hoary sinner to repentance. Characteristics of the Bible. A Sermon Preached before the Bible Convention of South Carolina, in the Washington Street Methodist Church, Columbia, September 15, 1862
Left alone and disregarding danger, mindful of her pledged devotion to her true friend, the redeemed sinner sat steadfast at the tomb.
The implication here is that for a dharmic person to say he has been saved would imply that he accepts Christianity's fundamental tenet that every human is born a sinner and remains so until he surrenders himself to Jesus Christ. Rajiv Malhotra: Dharma's Good News: You Are Not A Sinner!
We may not always admit to being sinners, but deep down inside, we recognise that we are sinners, and we have an awareness that we have sinned or are sinning.
Alongside the canoe, still in the water and peeling off the grisly clinging thing, the incorrigible old sinner burst into the pule of triumph which had been chanted by countless squid-catching generations before him: THE WATER BABY
Today we are attempting to make the Gospel a means of bringing sinners into God's holy Presence.
Repenting sinners may find relief in an item being auctioned on the Internet by a Vienna church - a cherry-wood confessional.
The Church was on the point of giving reconciliation to repentant sinners, who had broken the chains of sin whereby they were held captives; Christian princes were ambitious to imitate this their mother ... Gueranger: The History of Passiontide and Holy Week
Pauline asked whether she would be willing to forego her drink of water `to save a poor sinner. RIDDLE ME THIS
He knows all are sinners and believes Jesus accepts all.
God's grace is manifested in the salvation of sinners
Observe, The goodness of God in converting and saving sinners heretofore is a proper encouragement to others in after-time to hope in his grace and mercy, and to apply themselves to these. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
In their valuation of the distribution of grace, theologians distinguish somewhat sharply between ordinary sinners (among whom they include habitual and relapsing sinners) and those sinners whose intellect is blinded, and whose heart is hardened, the so-called obdurate sinners (obcaecati et indurati, impaenitentes). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
There's a lightness of touch and a melodic freedom that's fairly jazzy, especially in guitarist Jay Berliner's quicksilver leads, an echo of his work with Mingus on The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady.
And he said unto me, This miry slough is such a place as cannot be mended; it is the descent whither the scum and filth that attends conviction for sin doth continually run, and therefore it is called the Slough of Despond; for still, as the sinner is awakened about his lost condition, there ariseth in his soul many fears, and doubts, and discouraging apprehensions, which all of them get together, and settle in this place. The Pilgrim`s Progress
And if so, what follows? but that thy righteousness is more, and has been done in a fuller spirit than ever were thy sins: but thus to insinuate is to insinuate a lie; for there is no man, but while he is a sinner, sinneth with a more full spirit, than any good man can act righteousness withal. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
Let the word "unregenerate" be taken for a man who is now in the act of the new birth, though he be not yet actually born again; let "the pleasure" which God feels be taken for an initial act; let the impulsive cause be understood to refer to the final reception of the sinner into favour; and let secondary, subsequent, cooperating and entering grace be substituted for "saving grace;" and it will instantly be manifest, that we speak what is right when we say: "Serious sorrow on account of sin is so far pleasing to God, that by it, according to the multitude of his mercies, he is moved to bestow grace on a man who is a sinner. The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1
He did not want to allow any mercy into the discussions of the wretch Markwart; he wanted the Father Abbot condemned throughout history as the downfallen sinner that he had become. Mortalis
Such observations are, of course, true and we economists often deserve such a back-of-the-hand treatment, even by sinners and reprobates from other social science disciplines.
[* Art. 16] (16) Whether sinners impetrate anything from God by praying? Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
I am more suspicious of them than I am of the presence of losers, sinners, factory rejects, hypocrites and slimeballs in the Catholic communion.
A human infirmity, though; and I'm feeling for the poor sinner myself being tempted -- that is to say inclining -- but thank the Lord for his strengthening arm ---- The Manxman A Novel - 1895
Its sufficiency consists in this -- both that it demonstrates the necessity of that duty which is to be performed by sinful man, to be completely absolute, and on no account to be remissible, by which the way is closed against carnal security -- and that it most strongly fortifies against despair, not only sinners, that they may be led to repentance, but also those who perform the duty, that they may, through the certain hope of future blessings, persevere in the course of faith and of good works upon which they have entered. The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2
I wish it were the fashion to call oftener on outbreaking sinners to pray in church. A Circuit Rider's Wife
But the scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, ‘Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?’
In the book of Jonah, which most scholars consider post-exilic, God showers compassionate forgiveness on sinners in the faraway city of Nineveh. One World, Under God
As he felt the young fellow's eyes upon him he recalled the effusive piety of his conversation at Tyler Sudley's house, his animadversions on violin-playing and liquor-drinking, and Brother Peter Vickers's mild and merciful attitude toward sinners in those un-spiced sermons of his, that held out such affluence of hope to the repentant rather than to the self-righteous. The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895
There is a prediction in Psalms that the Sinners will go to Hell, similar to what Jesus says: EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Another AppSlappy is up!
The Kshatriya, conversant with duties, that upholds righteousness when it is trespassed against, does not, by that act, become a sinner, for the wrath of the assailant justifies the wrath of the chastiser. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12
It is true, the Lord can, and I hope He often does, make that preaching effectual to the conversion of sinners, wherein little is said expressly to them, only the truths of the gospel are declared in their hearing
I felt the demands, I knew I was a sinner, I knew well the discipleship was a challenge and a burden-although a sweet one. Te Deum laudamus!
Hugo says the sinner is "bound down by obduracy of soul, and by the penalty of future damnation"; the grace of God frees man from the darkness brought on by sin, while the absolution of the priest delivers him from the penalty which sin imposes — "The malice of sin is best described as obduracy of heart, which is first broken by sorrow, that later, in confession, the sin itself, i.e. the penalty of damnation, be remitted. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
Maggie you must read "The Memoirs and Confession of a Justified Sinner" by James hogg! How to Tell when You're Tired (copy)
Neither the church nor any man is dehorted here from praying for any sinner yet living.
Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Rev. Dr. Paul Bradley: Acceptance, Awareness, Action: Preparing For Step Four
We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low. Desmond Tutu
God the Father gave His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for sinners because He loved us.
What you think to be a hinderance is your best encouragement; for, "Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners," and therefore to save such as you. Come to Jesus. 36 p.
God the Father gave His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for sinners because He loved us.
The Son of God, who from eternity shares the fullness of life with the Father and the Holy Spirit, was "immersed" in our reality as sinners to make us share in his own life: he was incarnate, he was born like us, he grew up like us and, on reaching adulthood, manifested his mission which began precisely with the "baptism of conversion" administered by John the Baptist. Archive 2009-01-01
Dear God, I acknowledge I am a sinner and because I am a sinner I know through your word that I am alienated from you.
To think and speak of that day with horror doth well become the impenitent sinner, but ill the believing saint.
How I hate born-again neopagan politically-correct moral relativism ... but I do love the benighted sinners who practice this particular form of synthetic spiritualism. The Ritual: After Death, Before Venison
Ultimately, anything could be a disfellowshipping offense if the sinner refused to repent. I'm Perfect, You're Doomed
There, Rashi points out that this sacrifice is brought for a sin known only to Hashem, meaning one where that the sinner was unaware that he had sinned.
It is hard to get behind folks who fake outrage at gays and adulterers, when they themselves are the seediest variety of said sinners. (anonomous gay bathroom sex, sex with your employee's wife) Poll: Ensign's numbers plunge after admitting affair
Nor can any thing more peculiarly unqualify a man for the office of an apostle or preacher of the gospel, than this degenerous quality: for it makes him unable to look a bold sinner in the face, to assert a disgusted truth, or to own his commission, when power and interest shall frown him into silence and mean compliances. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
The unrepentant sinner merely passes into nonbeing: which after all is what he wants, increasingly while he's alive; the prospect of new life being steadily more problematic and tiresome to him. Ben Evans: The Real Horned Man: Exploring the Genius of Author James Lasdun
Plucked strings, bluegrass rhythms, deep gospel accompaniment and stories of sinners and devils are the order of the day.
a villain, so monstrous a sinner, out of that treasure of indulgences and merits of which the pope is dispensator, he may have free pardon and plenary remission of all his sins. Anatomy of Melancholy
He muttered something that a snaffle was the safest bit a sinner could place faith in -- assumed the mantle of prophecy -- foretold, as it would appear, troublous times to be in rapid advent -- and inculcated that faith should be placed in heaven, and powder kept very dry. International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 5, July 29, 1850
We may believe that His saving work is so effective that there is no sin that cannot be forgiven and no sinner too sinful to be cleansed.
Secularists don't want to be told that they are all sinners.
The sinner would not only unthrone God, but ungod him, which makes the debt infinite. The Lord's Prayer
If he doesn't, then God is the "relaxer," therefore implying another unwanted conclusion - God is a sinner in need of salvation! Triablogue
He endeavours to convince sinners of their folly in doting upon the wealth of this world, by showing them (1.) Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
In Luke 13, Jesus dealt with those who insisted a particu lar tragedy in his day was an act of God, when he said: Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way? God is Not a Christian, Nor a Jew, Muslim, Hindu …
The image of the unredeemed sinner kept from falling into hell only by the hand of God was a perfect summary of Calvinist soteriology.
Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Recovering From Religious Abuse
His ministry is to glorify the Lord Jesus Christ, and during this age to convict man of sin, regenerate the repentant sinner, to indwell, guide, instruct, sanctify and empower the believer.
Such sinners will surely be punished.
But behold, the sinner now, at the sight and sense of his own nothingness, falleth into a kind of despair; for although he hath it in him to presume of salvation through the delusiveness of his own good opinion of himself, yet he hath it not in himself to have a good opinion of the grace of God in the righteousness of Christ. The Riches of Bunyan
The true individuality of a man is the same in a king, as well as a beggar, the saint, as well as the sinner which is: sacred, divine and deathless.
Costly grace is the only pure grace, which really forgives sins and gives freedom to the sinner.
Only Christ crucified and risen can save sinners separated from God.
I am a sinner, Lord, and confess my sin.
It is not true that sinners have a constitutional appetency and craving for sin.
His voice moaned and wailed, expressing the deepest sorrows of a condemned sinner.
-- Sinners even of the worst description are to be admonished even though there may be little hope of amendment, and hence those striking miracles that carried so clear and conclusive demonstration of the being and character of the true God were performed in lengthened series before Pharaoh to leave him without excuse when judgment should be finally executed. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
We do not speculate about the destiny of sinners; we pluck them as brands from the burning.
MR... there's a difference between a sinner who sins out of weakness, and one who premeditates the sin. Legionaries of Christ founder, already accused of molestation, now reported to have fathered a child | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
The Western tradition was to conclude that Mary Magdalene was the presumed sexual sinner who was lionised not as any kind of apostle but as ‘the penitent.’
The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon ” and indeed they have a plentiful harvest ” I think what you call flagrancy was never more in fashion. Letters of Horace Walpole 01
One subject matter which could be profitably pursued by students who have completed an apprenticeship is an under-exploited topic from the iconographic tradition: the penitent sinner.
The suffering and death of Jesus Christ were an essential part of God's plan to save sinners.
'You recollect the duchesse in St. - Simon, who, on the death of a sinner of illustrious race, said, "On me dira ce qu'on voudra, on ne me persuadera pas que Dieu n'y regarde deux fois avant de damner un homme de sa qualité. Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2
I thought clergymen always gave a big welcome to a sinner panting to repent! ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
Epistle to the Corinthians the arrangement of Divine Providence in the reconciliation of sinners: “God,” he says, “hath reconciled us to Himself through Christ, _and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation_ .... The Faith of Our Fathers
The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report
The later ethnological misuse of ARYAN to signify not spiritual, but physical, characteristics, led the great Orientalist, Max Muller, to say quaintly: "To me an ethnologist who speaks of an Aryan race, Aryan blood, Aryan eyes and hair, is as great a sinner as a linguist who speaks of a dolichocephalic dictionary or a brachycephalic grammar. Autobiography of a Yogi
This was a contest that will be remembered as the day the Saints became bemused sinners.
There is a twofold kind of debt upon the creature, one remissible and pardonable, another irremissible and unpardonable, (so to speak,) the debt of sin, and that is the guilt of it, which is nothing else than the obligation of the sinner over to eternal condemnation by virtue of the curse of God. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
When we rebuke or expose an evil, we have the duty to hope for the redemption, not the condemnation, of the sinner.
Over the ages, the weeping of tears has been a sign of the mystical experiences of saints and repentant sinners.
Every institution (like a church) has a few egregious sinners affiliating with them. The Volokh Conspiracy » The “Racist” Charge
No I don’t believe so - I have personal knowledge of the kind of cruelty that can be exerted towards gay teenagers, but I cannot imagine how it would have been to be in his position, being sent to christian camp and constantly prayed over and told that you were a sinner - and having your father be the chief disapprover. “They are forcing their way into our towns, breaking our doors down, saying, `We are sodomites and there is nothing you can do about it.’”
Therefore sinners impetrate nothing by their prayers. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
A baptism of repentance is appropriate for sinners, but not for Jesus.
Now, my fellow-sinners, to show you the difference betwixt worldly - mindedness and unworldly-mindedness, betwixt kingdoms not of this world and kingdoms OF this world, here was a letter wrote by even our worldly-minded brother unto Brother Hawkyard. George Silvermans's Explanation
Somehow or other, by destiny, this sinner did perform a pious deed, and by that deed he became purified.
Did I really believe that God sovereignly saves sinners through the work of the Holy Spirit applying the truth of the Word?
On the rim of one stands a regiment of demons, shoulder to shoulder, constantly using their pitchforks to smack down the sinners who are trying to escape.
I may be a sinner, but the sinner whom these prayers were describing was not me.
Up until World War 2, practically all evangelical churches held two preaching services every Sunday; one aimed at edifying the church; the other at converting sinners.
We have already been irrevocably tarred with the stain of sinner, unbeliever and infidel.
Deepak Chopra, who's been spending a lot of time thinking about this, says that âthe themes of the sinners and saints, good and evil, play out with these symbolic representations of what we call heroes and villains. Batman And Superman Need to Evolve, Says Deepak Chopra

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