„Čím déle to odkládáš, tím silnějším a zakořenějším se hřích stává. Když nedokážeš ohnout prut, jak budeš moci ohnout strom ?“

Zdroj: [Vaněk, Zdeněk, Kaleidoskop, Zdeněk Vaněk, Plzeň, 2009, 1, 420, 978-80-254-5071-0, http://kaleidoskop.webz.cz/Kaleidoskop.pdf, 198]

Originál: (en) We may occasion other man’s sins by example, and the more eminent the example, the more infectious it is. Great men cannot sin at a low rate because they are examples; the sins of commanders are commanding sins; the sins of rulers are ruling sins; the sins of teachers are teaching sins.
Zdroj: COMPILED BY I.D.E. THOMAS. The golden treasury of Puritan quotations. Edinburgh: Banner of Truth Trust, 1977. Reprinted 2007. ISBN 08-515-1249-6. S. 96 (anglicky).

Originál: (en) True repentance strikes at the darling sin, and will with a peculiar zeal and resolution put away that, the sin which most easily besets us.
Zdroj: [Henry, Matthew, Commentary to the Whole Bible: First Samuel, Chapter VII., http://www.ccel.org/ccel/henry/mhc3.iSam.viii.html, 6.9.2006, 2.2.2015, Christian Classic Ethereal Library, angličtina]

Zdroj: [Koráb, Julius, Zlatá zrnka, [1885], Plzeň, V. Steinhauser, 375]

Originál: (en) Nothing can hurt thee but sin; nothing can grieve me but sin; nothing can make thee base before thy foes but sin.
Zdroj: [Bunyan, John, 1831, The works of that eminent servant of Christ, John Bunyan: minister of the gospel and formerly Pastor of a Congregatin at Bedford, Vol. 2, Nathan Whiting, 210, angličtina]. Dostupné online. https://books.google.cz/books?id=Pm5TAAAAYAAJ&pg/