Holiness

by J.C. Ryle

the seventh chapter of the Epistle to the Romans does not describe the experience of the advanced saint, but the experience of the unregenerate man,

In justification the word to be addressed to man is ‘Believe,’ only believe; in sanctification the word must be: ‘Watch, pray, and fight.’ What God has divided let us not mingle and confuse.

when we make our own miserably imperfect knowledge and consciousness the measure of our sinfulness, we are on very dangerous ground.

has no natural knowledge, or love, or fear of God.

‘chargeth His angels with folly’,

Sin rarely seems sin at its first beginnings.

that a scriptural view of sin is one of the best antidotes to that vague, dim, misty, hazy kind of theology which is so painfully current in the present age.