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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."
11. "We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin."
12. "God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill."
13. "Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages."
14. "When sin is your burden, Christ will be your delight."
15. "The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains."
16. "When you entertain any temptation to sin, you do as wisely as he who takes those into his house whom he knows are come on purpose to spoil him of what he esteems most precious."
17. "The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works."
18. "Nothing so clearly discovers a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother."
19. "We are sinners simply because we choose to sin or live selfishly. We are never held accountable for what we are not the author of. Ability is always the measure of responsibility. God has given us the ability to direct our lives, either according to intelligence in recognition of our obligation to God and our fellowmen, or according to selfishness and unintelligence in the supreme seeking of our own happiness."
20. "Sin is a violation of moral light, a refusal to conform to what is known and perceived."
21. "A fault, once denied, is twice committed."
22. "One leak will sink a ship; and one sin will destroy a sinner."
23. "Take heed of little sins."
24. "Sin wouldn't be so attractive if the wages were paid immediately."
25. "God is not against us because of our sin. He is with us against our sin."
26. "If you look upon ham and eggs and lust, you have already committed breakfast in your heart."
27. "Persons manifestly go through more pain and self-denial to gratify a vicious passion than would have been necessary to the conquest of it."
28. "What else would lust ask but the death of chastity?"
29. "This book (the Bible) will keep you from sin or sin will keep you from this book."
30. "The joy of the Lord will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies and put our mouths out of taste for those pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks."
31. "My temptations have been my Masters in Divinity."
