Flesh – Carnal Nature – Selfishness

Sin is first a fox then a lion – Thomas Watson

Sin first courts, and then kills. It is first a fox and then a lion.

– Thomas Watson –
from The Doctrine of Repentance, 1668

The voice of sin is loud, but the voice of forgiveness is louder.

– Dwight L. Moody –

Malice is mental murder.

– Thomas Watson –
1620-1686

If I do not put to death the things in me which are not of God, they will put to death the things that are of God.

– Oswald Chambers –

The way to heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

– Jonathan Edwards –

Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.

– JC Ryle –

We should not be entertained by the sins for which Christ died.

– John MacArthur –

His strong love stands like a granite rock, unmoved by the hurricanes of our iniquity.

– Charles Spurgeon –

Confess your sin with honesty, be pardoned with certainty.

– Charles Spurgeon –