A church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
Abigail Van Buren

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.
Seamus Heaney

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

By his disobedience of God's law, before man had exercised his power to bring children into the earth, not only Adam lost everything for himself, but his children were born as sinners, imperfect, and without the right to live.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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.
Soren Kierkegaard

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
Francis Quarles

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints - the sinners are much more fun.
Billy Joel

Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.
Frederick William Faber

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
Eric Hoffer

Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.
Samuel Rutherford

No attribute of God is more dreadful to sinners than His holiness.
Matthew Henry

Now the Bible tells us that we are all by nature, sinners, that we are slaves to sin and Satan, and that unless we are converted, or born again, we must be miserable forever.
Jupiter Hammon

Saints need sinners.
Alan Watts

See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners.
Paul Begala

The church saves sinners, but science seeks to stop their manufacture.
Elbert Hubbard

The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satan's prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth.
William Gurnall

The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners.
Theodor Adorno

The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.
Gloria Swanson

The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.
Horace Walpole