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Ralph Venning, a figure from 1621 to 1673, with limited information regarding his profession and category.

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“Sin is the quintessence of evil; it has made all the evils that there are & is itself worse than all evils it has made. It is so evil that it is impossible to make it good or lovely by all the arts that can be used.”

Evil Sin Chrisitianity

Book:The Sinfulness of Sin

Source: The Sinfulness of Sin

“Oh, learn to pity your own soul, for he who sins offends and wrongs God, but also wrongs and destroys his own soul”

Soul God Sin Pity Offend

Book:The Sinfulness of Sin

Source: The Sinfulness of Sin

“Sin, in being contrary to God, is contrary to man, for what crosses God’s glory is opposed to man’s happiness.”

Philosophy Happiness Joy Sin Christianity

Book:The Sinfulness of Sin

Source: The Sinfulness of Sin

“Do not contend with God who is stronger than you are, who is able when he will (and he will one day be found both able and willing enough) to turn the wicked into hell, the element of sin and sinners, who shall go into it as into their own place, as Judas did”

God Sin Hell Holy Judgement Purity Wicked

Book:The Sinfulness of Sin

Source: The Sinfulness of Sin

“Be as willing to die to sin as Christ was to die for sin, and as willing to live to Him as He was to die for you. Be as willing to be His, to serve Him, as that He should be yours to save you. Take Him on His own terms, give up yourself wholly to Him.”

Jesus Sin Christianity Salvation Christian Living Santification

Book:The Sinfulness of Sin

Source: The Sinfulness of Sin

“To be merciful to [indwelling] sin is to be cruel to yourself.”

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Author:Ralph Venning

“Reproving others is a thankless office and an unwelcome work for the most part; men take reproofs for reproaches, yet since God has laid it on good men as their duty to rebuke and not suffer sin to lie upon their brother, they dare not omit it.”

Christianity Discipleship Reproof

Book:The Sinfulness of Sin

Source: The Sinfulness of Sin

“As a Christian should do no injuries to others, so he should forgive the injuries that others do to him. It is to be like God, who is a good-giving God, and a sin-forgiving God.”

Giving Should Christian Sin Forgiving Injury Forgiving God

Author:Ralph Venning

“I have read of a glass kept in an idol temple in Smyrna that would make beautiful things appear deformed, and deformed things appear beautiful; carnal sense is such a glass to wicked men, it makes heavenly things which are beautiful to appear deformed, and earthly things which are deformed to appear beautiful.”

Men Beautiful Glasses Sensuality Wicked Temples Heavenly Idols Beautiful Things Wicked Man Earthly Things

Author:Ralph Venning

“Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.”

Firsts Pain Certain Virtue Vices Prophet Penitence

Author:Ralph Venning

“The Hebrews have a saying that God is more delighted in adverbs than in nouns; it is not so much the matter that is done, but the matter how it is done, that God minds. Not how much, but how well! It is the well-doing that meets with a well-done. Let us therefore serve God, not nominally or verbally, but adverbially.”

Mind Wells Matter Done Serving God Delighted Hebrew Well Done Nouns Adverbs

Author:Ralph Venning

“That is good which doth good.”

Author:Ralph Venning

“Sin promises like a God but pays like a Devil”

Sin Pay Promise Devil

Author:Ralph Venning

“Seek that your last days may be your best days, and so you may die in a good old age, which may be best done when you die good in old age, and are such as St. Paul the aged who had finished his course.”

Lasts Inspirational Life Last Day Be Your Best

Author:Ralph Venning

“To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.”

Opinion Thyself

Author:Ralph Venning

“All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.”

World Beauty Skins Beauty Of The World Skin Deep

Book:Mysteries and revelations: Or, The explication and application of several extra-essential and borrowed names, allusions, and metaphors in the Scripture

Source: Mysteries and revelations: Or, The explication and application of several extra-essential and borrowed names, allusions, and metaphors in the Scripture

“Take notice not only of the mercies of God, but of God in the mercies. Mercies are never so savoury as when they savour a Saviour.”

Mercy Saviour Mercy Of God Savour

Author:Ralph Venning

About the Author

Born: 1621
Died: 1673
Known for: Author
Quotes: 17

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