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“Above all sins, guard against bold or arrogant ones. You are not beyond the danger of such. If caught in the web of presumptuous sin, call quickly to God for help. If you hesitate, you only give Satan time to entangle you more tightly. But if you cry out to God in true repentance, He will come at once to rescue you. The sooner you yield to the Spirit, the less damage is done to your soul.”

“Cease to pray and thou will begin to sin. Prayer is not only a means to prevail for mercy but also to prevent sin.”

“God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill.”

“The Christian is to proclaim and prosecute an irreconcilable war against his bosom sins; those sins which have lain nearest his heart, must now be trampled under his feet.”

“As the eye of the body once put out, can never be restored by the creature's art, so neither can the spiritual eye lost by Adam's sin be restored by the teaching of men or angels. It is one of the diseases which Christ came to cure.”

“The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.”

“To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.”

“Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.”