Ralph Venning
Sin promises like a God but pays like a DevilCollection: Promise
To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.Collection: Opinion
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.Collection: Beautiful
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.Collection: Mercy Of God
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.Collection: Inspirational Life
All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.Collection: Beauty
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.Collection: Mind
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.Collection: Christian
Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.Collection: Pain
That is good which doth good.Collection: Values