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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.” EvilSinChrisitianity 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” SoulGodSinPityOffend 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.” PhilosophyHappinessJoySinChristianity 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” GodSinHellHolyJudgementPurityWicked 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.” JesusSinChristianitySalvationChristian LivingSantification Book:The Sinfulness of Sin Source: The Sinfulness of Sin
“To be merciful to [indwelling] sin is to be cruel to yourself.” JesusSinChristianityTheologyChristian LivingSantification 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.” ChristianityDiscipleshipReproof 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.” GivingShouldChristianSinForgivingInjuryForgiving 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.” MenBeautifulGlassesSensualityWickedTemplesHeavenlyIdolsBeautiful ThingsWicked ManEarthly Things Author:Ralph Venning
“Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.” FirstsPainCertainVirtueVicesProphetPenitence 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.” MindWellsMatterDoneServing GodDelightedHebrewWell DoneNounsAdverbs 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.” LastsInspirational LifeLast DayBe 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.” OpinionThyself Author:Ralph Venning
“All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.” WorldBeautySkinsBeauty Of The WorldSkin 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.” MercySaviourMercy Of GodSavour Author:Ralph Venning