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Besides public ordinances, we should give ourselves to spiritual exercises in secret.
All the time we can spare from our necessary, civil, and natural actions should be employed in calling to mind what we have seen, heard, or felt of God.
You can never part with sin soon enough; it is a cursed inmate, that will surely bring mischief upon the soul that harbours it. It will set its own dwelling on fire.Works 7:147
A child of God findeth a greater treasure in one chapter of the Bible than worldly men in all their lands and honours and large revenues.
The whole work of sanctification, from its first step to its last period, is all of grace, all must be ascribed to God's free goodness.
To own and stand up for a hated and despised truth will bring more comfort to our souls than all the pleasure the wicked have in their sensual delights.
The devil seeks to weaken our opinion of God's goodness.
The church is live a river. If it gets wider instead of deeper it will lose its power.
No wild beasts are so fierce to one another as one Christian has been to another. Lesser differences should not make void this Christ-like love
We lose much tenderness of conscience, watchfulness against sin, much of that lively diligence that we should otherwise show forth in carrying on the spiritual life, when we are at ease, and all things go well with us.
The goodness of God, and his readiness to be gracious to every one that cometh to him, is the fountain of the saint's hope, strength and consolation.
God gave the Spirit to the rest of the apostles, but he gave the purse to the son of perdition.
Religion without self-denial… is Christianity of our own making, not of Christ's.
We carve out the easy safe part of religion, and then we call this love to God and love to Christ. No; true Christian love is to love God above all.
Our affections to heavenly things languish when all succeeds with us in the world according to our heart's desire.
The more a man delighteth in God, and in the ways of God, the more he cleaveth to Him, and resolveth to go on in this course, and temptations to sensual delights do less prevail.
Men are ready to anger, slow to mercy, quickly enflamed, and hardly appeased; but it is quite contrary with God.
If the profession of godliness be lightly taken up, it will be as lightly left.
The Throne of Grace lieth always open; the more oftener we frequent it, the more welcome. We frown upon one that often troubleth us with his suits, but it is not so with God; we may beg and beg again.Works 7:185
obedience is not instrumental (it does not acquire the gift of Christ, nor any additional gift from God), but is integral to the gift itself.
If I could simplify the Christian life to one thing, it would be obedience.
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