Ralph Venning quotes

Sin is anti-will to God's will; it sets itself to oppose preaching, prayer, and all the institutions of God. (Ralph Venning)
Courteous reader, 'tis said of scripture that it is deep enough for an elephant to swim in, and yet shallow enough for a lamb to wade through. View quote
Ralph Venning
They spare the rod, and spoyle the child. View quote
Ralph Venning
All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep. View quote
Ralph Venning
He accounts himself lesse then the least of all mercies; and yet he looks on the greatest as his due. View quote
Ralph Venning
What is sin but a departure from God? And what is the doom of sinners but departure from God? Depart from us is the cry of sinners to God. Depart from me will be the cry of God to sinners. View quote
Ralph Venning
Sin promises like a God but pays like a Devil. View quote
Ralph Venning
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. View quote
Ralph Venning
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. View quote
Ralph Venning
One of the first evidences of man's sinfulness and misery by it, was that he could not endure, but hid himself from the voice and face of God. View quote
Ralph Venning
Confession of sin and repentance gives glory to God (Joshua 7:19) and sin endeavors to obstruct and hinder this. (Ralph Venning)
To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
Ralph Venning
Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence. View quote
Ralph Venning