But your new experience of your own sinfulness and of God's salvation: your new need and your new taste for spiritual and experimental truth will not lead you to join in that stupid demand.
Therefore, if you want to know what is the sinfulness of sin, there it is.
Peter had never been so abundantly and permanently penetrated by the sense of the sinfulness of his sin, as after he was sure, as he had been made sure in that great interview, that it was all forgiven.
She seems truly awakened to the sinfulness of her past life, and feels her need of Christ.
She, too, forbore alluding to the unpleasant circumstances, but she talked to him of our human sinfulness before God, and our need of a Saviour.
He was very conscious of his own situation as far as the uncertainty of his life was concerned, but he had apparently no sense of sinfulness before God.
The prayer produced some impression on his mind, but the sermon convinced him of his sinfulness and danger.
From the pulpit the name of the Redeemer was scarcely heard; nor was much mention made of the natural sinfulness of man, or of the influence of the Holy Spirit.
This course she continues; and thus her convictions of the sinfulness of her former indolent habit and waste of time are deepened.
However, she not only hurries out of bed the instant she wakes, but recalls her former view of the sinfulness of her conduct.
Here, in the twilight which seems to me thick and gloomy as at no other time, I am overcome by the sense of sinfulness and insignificance.
Children were mercilessly flogged and expelled from school, and their lives were made a misery on account of smoking, though not a single teacher or father knew exactly what was the harm or sinfulness of smoking.
Elizabeth's eyes flew open, and thesinfulness of man's estate flew away.
John was far ahead wrestling with What is required in the commandments, while poor Elizabeth plodded behind, struggling with the question as to Wherein consisted the sinfulness of that estate whereinto man fell.
Elizabeth forgot all about the sinfulness of man's estate as well as the gorgeousness of Mrs. Jarvis's in listening for sounds of other old friends.
Men know their actions, but the Lord discovers the sinfulness of them, as offensive to God’s holy majesty, and pure eyes.
He draws no defilement from the basest of the creatures, nor yet from the sinfulness of it.
If you have a general conviction ofsinfulness and misery, yet you think to help it.
They take a general view of their uncleanness and loathsome estate by sin; not only do they see sin, but sin in the sinfulness of it and uncleanness of it.
Judge whether a man is not more likely to be bowed down in wholesome sense of his ownsinfulness and unworthiness, if he has before him such an ideal as this of my text, than if it, too, has faded out of his life.
Let the discovery of my own sinfulness direct me to its remedy, the righteousness and the Cross of Jesus Christ.
The first thing that strikes me about this representation of our text is the profound sense of human sinfulness which underlies it.
Its sinfulness will be shown by the contrast with the Christ-life.
They did not know anything of their sinfulnessbefore this affliction.
She defined "a true religious experience" as "a conviction of one's own sinfulness and weakness, and personal need of the Savior for strength and support.
His sins were no real sins, or he had magnified their sinfulness out of all proportion.
He thinks of Christ and of God, and compares his weakness, ignorance, and sinfulness with their perfect power, wisdom, goodness.
They felt the sinfulness of sin; and they hated themselves for having sinned.
But do not think that the baptism of fire comes only once for all to a man, in some terrible affliction, some one awful conviction of his own sinfulness and nothingness.
Alas, if he discern such sinfulness in his own white soul, what horrid spectacle would he behold in thine or mine!
The effect of the monastic ideal was to emphasize the sinfulness of man and his need of redemption.
This emphasis on man's sinfulness and the need of redemption was sadly needed in Rome and all down the ages.
The anxieties of his youth, the constant warfare, the exciting events in his own family, Amnon's sinfulness and Absalom's revolt caused him to grow old at a comparatively early age.
With such an one, Jacob had not to reckon on account of his sinfulness, and it is just the humiliating consciousness of this his sinfulness which forms the point at issue in his wrestling.
Sure, your ladyship, I was full of sinfulness and pride when I spoke to you so uncivilly," Lucy said, in a contrite voice.
He goes to the prisons, and reads to the condemned creatures, and comes home broken-hearted at the cruelty of the law, at the sinfulness of mankind.
A sense of sinfulness is the earliest indication of awakening holiness.
Penitence rises from a sense of sinfulness to a recognition of sins.
Then the prophet leaps upon what each new year of that anarchy revealed afresh--the profound sinfulness of the people.
Yet the afterthought may be the prophet's own; for in other passages, to which no doubt attaches, he fully includes Judah in the sinfulness of Israel.
