Ralph Venning Quotes

#1. All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.

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#2. Seek that your last days be your best days.

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#3. 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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#4. 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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#5. 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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#6. Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.

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#7. God would not allow Adam and Eve to eat of the forbidden tree, even though it was good for food, pleasant to the eye and to be desired to make one wise (Gen. 3).

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#8. That is good which doth good.

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#9. Sin promises like a God but pays like a Devil

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