The best way to make a man sober is to bring him to the foot of the cross. AM108
Those beer-shops are the curse of this country—no good ever can come of them, and
the evil they do no tongue can tell; the publics were bad enough, but the beer-shops
are a pest; I wish the man who made the law to open them had to keep all the
families that they have brought to ruin. PT91
The drunkard goes lower than the sow, for no sow would habitually intoxicate itself:
few animals would even touch the defiling concoction. 1279.100
That which goes under the name of wine is not true wine, but a fiery, brandied
concoction of which I feel sure that Jesus would not have tasted a drop. 1556.493
When Bacchus rolls the wine-cask against the door it is hard to force an entrance,
even though we demand it in the name of King Jesus. Men are in an ill state for
hearing when the barrel and the bottle are their idols. It is not at all marvellous that
the gospel should be neglected by men who have put an enemy into their mouths to
steal away their brains. 1593.205
There is the “pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne
of God and of the Lamb,” and there is the fire-water, which has its origin among the
flames of hell; and yet, when the choice is left to men, many of them prefer the fiery
liquor to that water which would be in them “a well of water springing up into
everlasting life.” 3111.459
It is the devil’s backdoor to hell, and everything that is hellish; for he that once gives
away his brains to drink is ready to be caught by Satan for anything. 3233.30
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