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> [Sin promises like a God but pays like a Devil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-venning/sin-promises-like-a-god-but-pays-like-a-devil/)

[Ralph Venning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-venning/)

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## More by Ralph Venning

> [I have read of a glass kept in an idol temple in Smyrna that would make beautiful things appear deformed, and deformed things appear…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-venning/i-have-read-of-a-glass-kept-in-an-idol-temple-in-smyrna-that-would/)

[Ralph Venning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-venning/)

> [To maintain an opinion because it is thine, and not because it is true, is to prefer thyself above the truth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-venning/to-maintain-an-opinion-because-it-is-thine-and-not-because-it-is-true/)

[Ralph Venning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-venning/)

> [Virtue and vice are both prophets; the first, of certain good; the second, of pain or else of penitence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-venning/virtue-and-vice-are-both-prophets-the-first-of-certain-good-the/)

[Ralph Venning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-venning/)

> [Take notice not only of the mercies of God, but of God in the mercies. Mercies are never so savoury as when they savour…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-venning/take-notice-not-only-of-the-mercies-of-god-but-of-god-in-the-mercies/)

[Ralph Venning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-venning/)

> [“God would not allow Adam and Eve to eat of the forbidden tree, even though it was good for food, pleasant to the eye…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-venning/god-would-not-allow-adam-and-eve-to-eat-of-the-forbidden-tree-even/)

[Ralph Venning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-venning/)

> [Sin promises like a God but pays like a Devil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-venning/sin-promises-like-a-god-but-pays-like-a-devil/)

[Ralph Venning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-venning/)

> [Seek that your last days may be your best days, and so you may die in a good old age, which may be best…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-venning/seek-that-your-last-days-may-be-your-best-days-and-so-you-may-die-in/)

[Ralph Venning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-venning/)

> [The Hebrews have a saying that God is more delighted in adverbs than in nouns; it is not so much the matter that is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-venning/the-hebrews-have-a-saying-that-god-is-more-delighted-in-adverbs-than/)

[Ralph Venning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-venning/)

> [That is good which doth good.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-venning/that-is-good-which-doth-good/)

[Ralph Venning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-venning/)

> [Seek that your last days be your best days.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-venning/seek-that-your-last-days-be-your-best-days/)

[Ralph Venning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-venning/)

> [All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-venning/all-the-beauty-of-the-world-tis-but-skin-deep/)

[Ralph Venning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-venning/)

> [As a Christian should do no injuries to others, so he should forgive the injuries that others do to him. It is to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-venning/as-a-christian-should-do-no-injuries-to-others-so-he-should-forgive/)

[Ralph Venning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-venning/)

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