A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

Infidelity and faith look both through the perspective glass, but at contrary ends. Infidelity looks through the wrong end of the glass; and, therefore, sees those objects near which are afar off, and makes great things little,-diminishing the greatest spiritual blessings, and removing far from us threatened evils. Faith looks at the right end, and brings the blessings that are far off in time close to our eye, and multiplies God's mercies, which, in a distance, lost their greatness.

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It is not sin that kills the soul, but impenitence.

A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.

...Covetousness, looking more at what we would have than at what we have.

The best ground untilled, soonest runs out into rank weeds. A man of knowledge that is negligent or uncorrected, cannot but grow wild and godless.