Ralph Venning quotes
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“Seek that your last days be your best days.”
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“To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.”
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“All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.”
-- Ralph VenningSource : Ralph Venning (1652). “Mysteries and revelations: Or, The explication and application of several extra-essential and borrowed names, allusions, and metaphors in the Scripture”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.”
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“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.”
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“Sin promises like a God but pays like a Devil”
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“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.”
-- Ralph VenningSource : "The Sinfulness of Sin".
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