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“In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's nature to keep His promises. Therefore, go immediately to His throne and say, 'Do as You promised.'”
“Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.”
“There are some people who need to wear a label round their necks to show that they are Christians at all, or else we might mistake them for sinners, their actions are so like those of the ungodly.”
“Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul's husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul's range of delight.”
“We have lived long enough to experience the hollowness of earth and the rottenness of all carnal promises.”
“True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth.”
“All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.”
“May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!”
“As a child, when asked what I would be, I usually said I was going to be a huntsman. A fine profession, truly!”
“My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.”
“The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.”
“Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.”
“He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard.”
“Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.”
“Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man's idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.”
“You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.”
“Saving faith is an immediate relation to Christ, accepting, receiving, resting upon Him alone, for justification, sanctification, and eternal life by virtue of God's grace.”
“A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.”
“Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.”
“Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.”