Puritan quotes on
Mortification of Sin
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“To be merciful to [indwelling] sin is to be cruel to yourself.”
“It is good to divert our sorrow for other things to the root of all, which is sin. Let our grief run most in that channel, that as sin bred grief, so grief may consume sin.”
“It is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.”
“Suppose that by revenge you might destroy one enemy; yet, by exercising the Christian's temper you might conquer three, your own lust, Satan's temptation, and your enemy's heart.”
“It is one thing to have sin alarmed only by convictions, and another to have it crucified by converting grace.”
“Sin is conquered, though it still has a being within you.”
“While we keep aloof in general statements, there is little fruit to be expected; it is the hand-fight that does execution.”
“They that would keep themselves pure must have their bodies in subjection, and that may require, in some cases, a holy violence.”
“Be killing sin or it will be killing you.”
“Indwelling sin always abides whilst we are in this world; therefore it is always to be mortified.”
“Sin will be always acting, if we be not always mortifying, we are lost creatures.”
“Let not that man think he makes any progress in holiness who walks not over the bellies of his lusts.”
“A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.”
“To kill sin is the work of living men; where men are dead, sin is alive, and will live.”
“All other ways of mortification are vain, all helps leave us helpless; it must be done by the Spirit.”
“Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes.”
“Think of the guilt of sin, that you may be humbled. Think of the power of sin, that you may seek strength against it.”
“It is easier to cry against one thousand sins of others than to kill one of your own.”
“Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.”
“And now, brethren, what have we to do for the time to come, but to deny our lazy flesh, and rouse up ourselves to the work before us.”
“I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet.”
“God would have us part with nothing for Him, but that which will damn us if we keep it.”
“Unless we deny our own will, we shall never do God's will.”
“If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.”
“I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.”
“He is truly great in power who hath power over himself.”
“It is far easier to fight with sin in public than to pray against it in private.”
“Sin is a viper that does always kill where it is not killed.”
“To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again.”
“Do not say that you love Christ, so long as you can lay those sins in your bosom, which plucked His heart out of His bosom!”