15 Quotes by Ralph Venning

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Sin promises like a God but pays like a Devil.

Seek that your last days be your best days.

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