No one can live without delight, and that is why a man deprived of spiritual joy goes over to carnal pleasure.
– Thomas Aquinas –
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Flesh – Carnal Nature – Selfishness
Is there such a thing as a “carnal Christian”? – Leonard Ravenhill
Get rid of this bunkum about the “carnal Christian.” Forget it! If you’re carnal, you’re not saved.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
Living Below the Standard – Vance Havner
Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.
– Vance Havner –
Sin is Abominable – JC Ryle
Nevertheless settle it firmly in our minds that sin is “the abominable thing that God hateth” that God “is of purer eyes than to behold iniquity, and cannot look upon that which is evil.” That the least transgression of God’s law makes us “guilty of all” that “the soul that sinneth shall surely die” that “the wages of sin is death” that God shall “judge the secrets of men” that there is a worm that never dies, and a fire that is not quenched. That “the wicked shall be turned into hell” and “shall go away into everlasting punishment” and that “nothing that defiles shall in any wise enter heaven.”
– JC Ryle –
Straddling Truth and Sin? – Oswald Chambers
It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God’s truth and remain in sin.
– Oswald Chambers –
A Heart Fit for Holy Duty – Thomas Watson
Sorrow and melting of heart fits us for every holy duty. A piece of lead, while it is in the lump, can be put to no use, but melt it, and you may then cast it into any mould, and it is made useful. So a heart that is hardened into a lump of sin is good for nothing, but when it is dissolved by repentance, it is useful.
– Thomas Watson –
from The Doctrine of Repentance, 1668
Sin and the Child of God – John R. W. Stott
Sin and the child of God are incompatible. They may occasionally meet; they cannot live together in harmony.
– John R. W. Stott –
Don’t Put a Shadow of Sin Between You and God – George Elliot
I couldn’t live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God.
– George Elliot –
Heart-Suffering – Johann Arndt
Heart-suffering because of sin is the best proof that the Holy Spirit dwells in your heart.
– Johann Arndt –