Holiness: For the Will of God Is Your Sanctification – 1 Thessalonians 4:3 [Annotated, Updated]

by J.C. Ryle

I cannot pretend to enter fully into the causes of this state of things, and can only suggest speculation for consideration. It might be that professing religion has become so fashionable and comparatively easy in the present age that the streams that were once narrow and deep have become wide and shallow, and what we have gained in outward show we have lost in quality.