COMPROMISE
As is usual with people on an incline, some who got on “the down grade” went further
than they intended, showing that it is easier to get on than to get off, and that where
there is no brake it is very difficult to stop. DG6
It is exceedingly difficult in these times to preserve one’s fidelity before God and one’s
fraternity among men. Should not the former be preferred to the latter if both cannot
be maintained? We think so. DG16
To pursue union at the expense of truth is treason to the Lord Jesus. DG34
It is thought to be mere bigotry to protest against the mad spirit which is now loose
among us. Pan-indifferentism is rising like the tide; who can hinder it? We are all to
be as one, even though we agree in next to nothing. It is a breach of brotherly love to
denounce error. Hail, holy charity! Black is white; and white is black. The false is
true; the true is false; the true and the false are one. DG51
Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any
successful protest against it. DG66
It is well to understand that we are to be “first pure, then peaceable.” Our
peaceableness is never to be a compact with sin, or toleration of evil. ME155
Better die than sell your soul to the highest bidder. PP122
There is a time to do as others wish, and a time to refuse. PT32
But we are so gentle and quiet, we do not use strong language about other people’s
opinions; but let men go to hell out of charity to them. WCo33
Do you not know that a person who is silent when a wrong thing is said or done may
become a participator in the sin? WWi148
God has power to supply our needs, and therefore there can be no necessity for us to
do wrong in order that we may be fed; for he is not tied to any one means; he can
supply the wants of his children, not in one way, but in fifty ways; nay, not in fifty
ways, but in ways as countless as the sands upon the sea shore. 418.562
Do not say of such-and-such an error, “Oh, it is a mere matter of opinion.” If it be a
matter of opinion to-day, it will be a matter of practice to-morrow. No man has an
error of judgment, without sooner or later having an error in practice. 434.94
The gross example of the Vicar of Bray comes at once to one’s mind, who had been a
papist under Henry VIII, then a Protestant under a Protestant reign, then a papist
under Mary, then again a Protestant under Elizabeth; and he declared he had
always been consistent with his principle, for his principle was to continue the Vicar
of Bray. 651.532
If you yield to-day, you will have to yield more to-morrow. 1154.59
Be ye warned, then, against falling into the meanness of compromise, for compromise
is nothing better than varnished rebellion against God, a mockery of his claims, and
an insult to his judgment. 1188.461
We have in these days a race of time servers and word spinners to succeed the real
men. 1377.563
It is a wonderfully forgiving world if you will but quit your protest against it. 1794.437
Be more concerned to be right than to be happy. 2645.509
I fear that, sometimes, in our endeavours to be sweet in disposition, we have not been
strong in principle. “Charity” is a word that is greatly cried up nowadays; but, often,
it means that, in trying to be courteous, we have also been traitorous. 2826.170
If you love Christ but little, you will hate error but little. If you do not love the truth
at all, you will not hate error at all. 3516.284