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Sinner Quotes

On failure and faith, often in the very same breath.

These quotes wrestle with the word 'sinner' from every angle, from the blues being called the sound of a sinner on revival day, to a bold line preferring an industrious sinner over a lazy saint. There's real tension here between failure and faith, often in the same breath.

I am a big sinner.

Quotes by Abby Johnson

The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day.

Quotes by William Christopher Handy

An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.

Quotes by Sophie Kerr

I was about to be a preacher, but I was a sinner.

Quotes by Scatman Crothers

About Quotes

The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.

Quotes by Saint Bernard

I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner.

Quotes by Pope Francis

Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.

Quotes by Martin Luther

Woman: the peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch and the sinner his justification.

Quotes by Helen Rowland

I know I'm a sinner.

Quotes by Hank Williams III

Adoring Quotes

It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner.

Quotes by Giovanni Guareschi

Love begets love; and thus the love of Christ displayed upon the cross woos and wins the sinner and binds him repenting to the cross, believing and adoring the matchless depths of a Saviour's love.

Quotes by Ellen G. White

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.

Quotes by DeWitt Clinton

Only the sinner has the right to preach.

Quotes by Christopher Morley

We're all sinners. Everybody you meet all over the world is a sinner.

Quotes by Billy Graham

Am Quotes

God is not glorified in any transaction upon earth so much as in the conversion of a sinner.

Quotes by Archibald Alexander

There is no sinner like a young saint.

Quotes by Aphra Behn

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.

Quotes by Ambrose Bierce

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the word sinner mean across these quotes?
It swings between musical metaphor, the blues described as the sound of a sinner on revival day, and personal or spiritual reflection, including a bold preference for an industrious sinner over a lazy saint.
Why do people search for quotes about being a sinner?
The word carries both religious and everyday weight, so these quotes get used in writing about faith, failure, and the tension between wrongdoing and redemption.
Is there a quote pairing sin with faith directly?
Yes, one well-known line advises being a sinner and sinning strongly, but having even stronger faith and rejoicing in Christ, treating the two as connected rather than opposed.
Do any quotes connect being a sinner to a specific calling?
One quote reflects on almost becoming a preacher while admitting to being a sinner instead, framing the two paths as closer together than they might first appear.
What other quotes go well with this sinner collection?
Browse quotes tagged About redemption, or the Am collection for more identity-driven reflections.

Related reading includes quotes tagged About redemption or the Am collection for identity-driven lines. Being a sinner, these quotes suggest, isn't the opposite of faith so much as the starting point for it.