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We fall not from virtue, like Vulcan from heaven, in a day. Bad dispositions require some time to grow into bad habits; bad habits must undermine good, and oft-repeated acts make us habitually evil; so that by gradual depravations, and while we are but staggeringly evil, we are not left without parentheses of consideration, thoughtful rebukes, and merciful interventions, to recall us to ourselves.
Elon Foster, comp., 6,000 Classic Sermon Illustrations (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1974)
The point
Moral decline is gradual, not sudden, and God mercifully interrupts it with warnings along the way.
Audience
Adults
To tell aloud
under a minute · 64 words
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