When we look upon sin through Satan’s spectacles, and the cloud of our own passions and carnal affections, we make nothing of it; but in the agonies of Christ, and the sorrows and sufferings of his cross, we see the odiousness of it, that it may […]
Oftentimes men charge that upon the devil that is to be charged upon their own hearts Though Satan has his devices to draw souls to sin, yet we must be careful that we do not lay all our temptations upon Satan, that we do not wrong […]
Keep at the greatest distance from sin, and from playing with the golden bait that Satan holds forth to catch you Anselm used to say, ‘That if he should see the shame of sin on the one hand, and the pains of hell on the other, […]
Repentance is a Godward awakening from the evil of sin. True repentance is a dynamic of God-centeredness. It is a grace of God whereby a sinner is inwardly awakened and outwardly reformed by the Holy and unto the Holy. In Greek, the word for repentance has […]
With an impoverished view of God comes a tolerant view of sin No one sees their own sin as God does; it is treated altogether as a light thing with very little consequence. Some mock the unseen consequences of sin in the existentialism of the present. […]