1. 1. 17th century pastor Christopher Love: "O the madness of men in the world that they will rather lose a God than lose a lust".

2. 2. J.C.Ryle (1816-1900):"Surely that man must be in an unhealthy state of soul who can think of all that Christ suffered and yet cling to those sins for which that suffereing was undergone".

3. 3. 17th century puritan John Owen: "There is no man that lives in any one known sin but that he really lives in more. Let no man reassure himself with the thought it is only one sin when that one sin keeps him in a constant neglect of God. They deceive themselves in this, reasoning that although yjeu cannot shake off their sin, yet they will continue to still love God......this is a false notion a mere instrument in sins hand to work its deception:.

4. 4. 17th century puritan John Owen: "Repeated consenting of the will to sin may bring about a disposition and inclination to similar acts.; it may bring the will into a proneness and readiness to consent to sin upon easy solicitations".

5. 5. John Knox: "..Easy it is in time of prosperity to say and to think that God is our God and that we are His people. But when He has given us over into the hand of our enemies and turned, as it were, His back on us then I say still to reclaim Him to be our God and to have this reassurance that we are His people proceeds wholly from the Holy Spirit of God and it is the greatest victory of faith which overcomes the world for increase whereof we ought continually to pray."