Ralph Venning Quotes

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

Ralph Venning

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

Ralph Venning

#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.

Ralph Venning

#4. To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.

Ralph Venning

#5. Nobody is bound by any obligation unless it has first been freely accepted.

Ugo Betti

#6. 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.

Ralph Venning

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

Ralph Venning

#8. Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

William Masters

#9. 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).

Ralph Venning

#10. I think a shotgun or a handgun that has a six-round clip is a very good, perfectly adequate weapon for self-defense, in the home. You simply can't create that kind of mayhem, if you have to reload.

John Landgraf

#11. Without passion, nothing happens; without compassion, the wrong things happen.

Jan Eliasson

#12. I don't know. When I was born there was a nurse taking care of me."
"What's the matter? Couldn't the nurse take care of herself?" "Sure she could. I just found that out too late.

Groucho Marx

#13. That is good which doth good.

Ralph Venning

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

Ralph Venning