Ralph Venning Quotes & Sayings

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

Sin promises like a God but pays like a Devil — Ralph Venning

God would not allow Adam and Eve to eat of the forbidden tree, even though it was good for food, pleasant to the eye and to be desired to make one wise (Gen. 3). — 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 God, and a sin-forgiving God. — 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; carnal sense is such a glass to wicked men, it makes heavenly things which are beautiful to appear deformed, and earthly things which are deformed to appear beautiful. — Ralph Venning

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

That is good which doth good. — Ralph Venning

Seek that your last days be your best days. — 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 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. — 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