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1. Sin is the mother of all sorrow, and no sort of sin appears to give a man so much misery and pain as the sins of his youth. The foolish acts he did~~the time he wasted~~the mistakes he made~~the bad company he kept~~the harm he did himself, both body and soul....all these are things that often embitter the conscience of an old man, throw a gloom on the evening of his days, and fill the later hours of his life with self-reproach and shame.
2. Let us stop the progress of sin in our soul at the first stage, for the farther it goes the faster it will increase.
3. Our eyes when gazing on sinful objects, are out of their calling and God's keeping.
4. Someone has said that the seven deadly sins of society are these: Policies without principles; wealth without work; pleasure without conscience; knowledge without character; commerce and industry without morality; science without humanity; worship without sacrifice.
5. "Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms."
6. "Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want."
7. "The truth is there are two great classes of sins---sins of the body, and sins of the disposition. The Prodigal Son may be taken as a type of the first, the Elder Brother of the second."
8. "It is worse to live like a beast than to be a beast."
9. "We are wearied with our sins, and have no satisfaction in them; we go to bed tonight weary of our sinful labors, and we will rise freshly tomorrow to the same sinful labors again."
10. "I inquired what iniquity was, and found it to be no substance, but the perversion of the will, turned aside from Thee, O God, the Supreme, towards these lower things."
