“It is easier to declaim like an orator against a thousand sins in others than to mortify one sin in ourselves; to be more industrious in our pulpits than in our closets; to preach twenty sermons to our people than one to our own hearts.”

—  John Flavel

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 476.

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