Nothing One-Half So Worthy of Abhorrence
[On Jeremiah 17:9] There is nothing one half so worthy of abhorrence as the human heart. God spares from all eyes but His won that awful sight, a human heart; and could you and I but see our heart, we should be driven mad, so horrible would be the sight.
Charles Spurgeon
New Park Street Pulpit Vol 1
p. 44
Cited in Flavel, Keeping the Heart p. vi