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).
„Některé hříchy jsou natolik krásné, že by bylo hříchem nehřešit.“
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/
Originál: (en) If you will not have death unto sin, you shall have sin unto death. There is no alternative. If you do not die to sin, you shall die for sin. If you do not slay sin, sin will slay you.
Zdroj: Spurgeon at His Best: Over 2200 Striking Quotations from the World's Most Exhaustive and Widely-read Sermon Series. S. 323.
„Nuda je smrtelný hřích učitele.“
„Vášeň není hřích, hříchem je chlad.“
„Hrdinství bývá nakažlivé jako hřích a více než hřích.“
