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Oh, then be ashamed, Christians, that worldlings are more studious and industrious to make sure of pebbles, than you are to make sure of pearls.
A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.
There are none that walk so close with God all the six days, as those that keep closest to God on the seventh day.
There are many now in hell who have had a great confidence of going to heaven.
The damned shall live as long in hell as God himself shall live in heaven.
Sin always dies most where faith lives most. The most believing soul is the most mortified soul.
For a close, remember this, that your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all!Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices
Afflictions are God's furnace, by which he cleanses his people from their dross. Affliction is a fire to purge out our dross, and to make virtue shine. Afflictions are medicines which heal soul diseases, better than all the remedies of physicians.Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices
4 Types of Pride: first is when someone attributes to himself the good which he has; the second, when he believes that the good is given by God, and yet for his own merits; the third, when he boasts that he has what he does not have; the fourth, when he has contempt for all others and wishes to seem unique.Moralia, bk 2, c6, n13
There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence. Commentary on Luke 24:45
It is dangerous to be more notion than motion; to have faith in the head and none in the heart; to have an idle and not an active faith.
As ever you would enjoy the gracious presence of the Lord, take heed of a lazy, slothful, sluggish spirit in the things of God, in the concernment of your souls.
Many a husband hath been won to Christ by the holy life of the wife; and many a wife hath been won to Christ by the holy life of the husband.
It is God alone that makes heaven to be heaven.
The way of holiness that leads to happiness is a narrow way; but there is just enough room for a holy God and a holy soul to walk together.
True repentance is a turning, not from some sin, but from every sin.
Christ hath made an infinite satisfaction in a finite time, by undergoing that fierce battle with the wrath of God, and getting the victory in a few hours, which is equivalent to the creatures bearing it and grappling with it everlastingly.Works
Christ, the Scripture, your own hearts and Satan's devices, are the four prime things that should be first and most studied and searched.Works
Pride loves to climb up, not as Zacchaeus Golden Treasury
Forgiveness makes not a Christian bold with sin, but fearful of sin, and careful to obey, as Christians find in their daily experience.Works of Thomas Brooks (5)
It is easier for the bad to corrupt the good, than for the good to convert the bad; it is easier to run down the hill with company, than to run up the hill alone.
if you will partake of other men's sins, you shall also partake of other men's plagues
Pride has its root and strength in a spiritual power, outside of us as well as within us; as needful as it is that we confess and deplore it, it is satanic in origin.Humility
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
The least sin is contrary to the law of God, the nature of God, the being of God, and the glory of God
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