“Our sins are often as dear to us as our children: we love them, hug them, cleave to them, and delight in them. To part with them is as hard as cutting off a right hand, or plucking out a right eye.
But it must be done. The parting must come. ‘Though wickedness be sweet in the sinner’s mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; though he spare it, and forsake it not,’ yet it must be given up, if he wishes to be saved. (Job 10:12-13.) He and sin must quarrel, if he and God are to be friends.”
But it must be done. The parting must come. ‘Though wickedness be sweet in the sinner’s mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; though he spare it, and forsake it not,’ yet it must be given up, if he wishes to be saved. (Job 10:12-13.) He and sin must quarrel, if he and God are to be friends.”
–John Charles Ryle, Holiness (Moscow, Idaho: Charles Nolan, 1877/2002), 70.
