A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.
Charles Spurgeon

An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint.
Sophie Kerr

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

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

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde

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

I am a most noteworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolation since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy His marvellous Presence.
Christopher Columbus

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.
David Brainerd

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

I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
Saint Patrick

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
H. L. Mencken

In the gay (Catholic) community, it would seem, the maxim is: love the sin and love the sinner, but hate anyone who calls it a sin or him a sinner.
Richard John Neuhaus

In the United States there's a Puritan ethic and a mythology of success. He who is successful is good. In Latin countries, in Catholic countries, a successful person is a sinner.
Umberto Eco

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

No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
Mark Twain

None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate.
Archibald Alexander

One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.
John Bunyan

Only the sinner has the right to preach.
Christopher Morley

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited.
Ambrose Bierce

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