"There is a physical demonstration of sin as well as a religious; and no sin can come in among the delicate faculties of the mind, or among the coarser fibres of the body, without leaving a stain, either as a positive injury to the life, or, what is equally fatal, as a predisposition to commit the same sin again. This predisposition is always one of the most real and appalling accompaniments of the stain of sin. There is scarcely such a thing as an isolated sin in a man's life. Most sins can be accounted for by what has gone before. Every sin, so to speak, has its own pedigree, and is the result of the accumulated force, which means the accumulated stain of many a preparatory sin."
The Ideal Life, Henry Drummond.
MAY 23
"Two things a genuine Christian never does. He never makes light of any known sin, and he never admits it to be invincible."
Canon Liddon.
"We always meet the temptation which is to expose us when we least expect it."
The Ideal Life, Henry Drummond.
"It is of the essence of temptation that it should come on us unawares."
Pastor Pastorum, Henry Latham.