For they were fancying themselves, in their calamities, the victims of some blind and cruel fate, and had forgotten that, when God said that He visited the sins of the fathers on the children, He qualified it by saying, "of them that hate Me.

They may rise punished by their sins, and punished for a long time, heavily weighted by the consequences of their own folly, and heavily weighted for a long time.

Look, look at Christ hanging on His cross, and see there what God's grudge, God's anger, God's score of your sins is like.

To wash out your sins, He spared not His only begotten Son, but freely gave Him for you, to shew you that God, so far from hating you, has loved you; that so far from being your enemy, He was your father; that so far from willing the death of a sinner, He willed that you and every sinner should turn from his wickedness and live.

He died that you may live; He suffered that you may be saved; He paid the debt, because you could never pay it; He bore your sins upon the cross, that you might not have to bear them for ever and for ever in eternal death.

Now, even if you suffer somewhat in this life for your sins, that suffering is not punishment, but wholesome chastisement, as when a father chastens the son in whom he delighteth.

All He asks of you is to long and try to give up your sins, for He will help you to give them up.

Our Lord there is speaking of the sins of the whole Jewish nation.

He is speaking rather of each man's private sins.

As much as to say, though ye did not rebel against the Romans like these Galilaeans, you have your sins, which will ruin YOU.

You will see then that our Lord is preaching against the same sins as in the 12th chapter of St. Luke.

And this, as in bodily sins, it will do by virtue of that mysterious and terrible officer of God, which we call Habit.

And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins. .

The world of man looks brighter to him, in spite of all its sins and sorrows, for he sees the Lord ruling it, the Lord forgiving it, the Lord saving it.

I believe that if a man walks with God, then he can walk nowhither without seeing and hearing what the ungodly and bad man will never see and hear, because his eyes are blinded, and his heart hardened from thinking of himself, his own selfish wants, his own selfish sins.

For forty years they had been, chastised, and purged and humbled for their sins; and then, and not till then, came times of safety and prosperity, honour and glory, which have lasted, thanks be to God, ever since.

I know people do not like to believe that; I know that it is much more convenient to fancy that when a man repents, and, as he says, turns over a new leaf, he need trouble himself no more about his past sins.

He may not choose to trouble himself about his past sins; but he will find that his past sins trouble him, whether he chooses or not,and that often in a very terrible way, as they troubled those poor Jews in their day, and our forefathers after the Reformation.

He may not choose to trouble himself about his past sins; but he will find that his past sins trouble him, whether he chooses or not,and that often in a very terrible way, as they troubled those poor Jews in their day, and our forefathers after the Reformation.

But there is our comfort, there is our hopeChrist, the great healer, the great physician, can deliver us, and will deliver us from the remains of our old sins, the consequences of our own follies.

These poor souls suffer for no sins of their own; they have done nothing to bring on themselves a disease which attacks too often the fairest, the seemingly strongest and healthiest, the most temperate and most pure.

They suffer, some it may be for the sins of their forefathers, some from causes of disease which science cannot as yet control, cannot even discover.

If it was necessary for Him who know no sin, how much more for us who have sins enough and to spare.

Pay him at once and be done with him: but never think to escape out of his clutches, as too many wretched and foolish sinners do, by running up a fresh score with him, and trying to hide old sins by new ones.

But it seems to me, also, that the master could be right only, if the steward was right alsoif the steward had done the right and just thing at last, and, instead of cheating his master a second time, had done his best to make restitution for his own sins.