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; carna…

- Ralph Venning

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

- Ralph Venning

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

Sin promises like a God but pays like a Devil

- Ralph Venning

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 G…

- Ralph Venning

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

- Ralph Venning

That is good which doth good.

- Ralph Venning

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 su…

- Ralph Venning

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

- Ralph Venning