What They Said

"For I must tell you that self is the most treacherous enemy, and the most insinuating deceiver in the world.  It will be within you when you are not aware of it, and will conquer you when you perceive not yourselves much troubled with it;  and of all other vices is both the hardest to find out, and the hardest to cast out; the hardest to discover, and the hardest to cure.  Be sure therefore in the first place that you have self-denial; and then be sure that you use it and live in the practice of it."

Richard Baxter