Sinner Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old sinner quotes, sinner sayings, and sinner proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Hate the sin and love the sinner. Mahatma Ghandi
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? Mark Twain
If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also. Robert Louis Stevenson
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
But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men. Victor Hugo
O sin, how you paint your face! How you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip! Hosea Ballou
I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints. The sinners are much more fun. You know that only the good die young. Billy Joel
We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore. Joel Osteen
I am and always will be a sinner. But that’s the beautiful thing about Jesus. I’ll always try to be a better person in the eyes of God. But I’m not all of a sudden stepping up on a pedestal and saying I’m holier than thou, ’cause I’m not! Billy Ray Cyrus
One just soul can attain pardon for a thousand sinners. Margaret Mary Alacoque
We are all sinners. But God heals us with an abundance of grace, mercy and tenderness Pope Francis
Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition; / By that sin fell the angels. William Shakespeare
As much as we hate to admit it, we are sinners by birth. We are also sinners by choice. We are also sinners by practice. Billy Graham
Some practiced sinners are like lawyers; they know the loopholes as well as the laws. Alfred Henry
God creates out of nothing, wonderful, you say: yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. Søren Kierkegaard
The power of the Soul for good is in proportion to the strength of its passions. Sanctity is not the negation of passion but its order... Hence great Saints have often been great sinners. Coventry Patmore
The grace of God has sought out in the world the greatest sinners. It has not passed by the vilest of the vile. He who called himself the chief of sinners was a partaker of the love of Christ. Charles Spurgeon
Some people think hell will have a purifying effect on sinners, who will realize the error of their ways and become repentant. But I don't see that in the Bible. Tony Evans
[In hell] sinners go on sinning and receiving the recompense of their sin, refusing, always refusing, to bend the knee. D. A. Carson
All my theology is reduced to this narrow compass—Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. Archibald Alexander
I always claim the mission workers came out too early to catch any sinners on this part of Broadway. At such an hour the sinners are still in bed resting up from their sinning of the night before, so they will be in good shape for more sinning a little later on. Damon Runyon
Love the sinner and hate the sin. Saint Augustine
I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying. Nelson Mandela
Tears only dry up as a result of hardness of the heart, and the hearts only harden as a result of frequent sinning. Imam Ali
A handful of sand, thrown into the sea, is what sinning is, when compared to God's providence and mercy. St. Isaac the Syrian
Life doesn't discriminate, between the sinners and the saints. It takes and it takes and it takes. And we keep on living anyway. We rise and we fall. We fall and we break. And we make our mistakes. And if there's a reason why I'm still alive when so many have died - then I'm willing to... wait for it. Aaron Burr
One man goes into the waters of baptism, a different man comes out, born again. But who is that man who lies submerged? Perhaps that swimmer is both sinner and saint, until he is revealed unto the eyes of man. Zachary Hale Comstock
Love the Prophet, cause he loves the sinner. Love the sinner, because he is you. Without the sinner, what need is there for a redeemer? Without sin, what grace has forgiveness? Lady Comstock
Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly. I'm a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior. John Newton
When silence deafens the rocks cry out / And sinners steps in when saints step down / How can we tell the difference now / Between saints and sinners. Janice Lagata