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.
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
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
To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.
Sin promises like a God but pays like a Devil - Ralph Venning
Sin promises like a God but pays like a Devil
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
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.
Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence. - Ralph Venning
Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.
That is good which doth good. - Ralph Venning
That is good which doth good.
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 do… - Ralph Venning
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 do…
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
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…
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
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…
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