The Distinction Between the Righteous and the Ungodly in Their Temptations and Sins

“MEADOWS may be occasionally flooded, but the marshes are drowned by the tide at every return thereof.”

There is all this difference between the sins of the righteous and those of the ungodly. Surprised by temptation, true saints are flooded with a passing outburst of sin; but the wicked delight in transgression and live in it as in their element. The saint in his errors is a star under a cloud, but the sinner is darkness itself. The gracious may fall into iniquity, but the graceless run into it, wallow in it, and again and again return to it.

Spurgeon, C. H. (1892). Daily Help (p. 149). R. H. Woodward & Company. (Public Domain)