Happy are they, who in the matter of marriage observe three rules. The first is to marry only in the Lord, and after prayer for God’s approval and blessing. The second is not to expect too much from their partners, and to remember that marriage is, after all, the union of two sinners, and not of two angels. The third rule is to strive first and foremost for one another’s sanctification. The more holy married people are, the happier they are.
The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.
Let us watch against pride in every shape - pride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride of our own goodness. Nothing is so likely to keep a person out of heaven, and prevent them from seeing Christ, as pride. So long as we think we are something we shall never be saved. Let us pray for and cultivate humility; let us seek to know ourselves correctly, and to find out our place in the sight of a holy God.
Prosperity is a great mercy, but adversity is a greater one, if it brings us to Christ.
Abide in Me says Jesus. Cling to Me. Stick fast to Me. Live the life of close and intimate communion with Me. Get nearer to Me. Roll every burden on Me. Cast your whole weight on Me. Never let go your hold on Me for a moment. Be, as it were, rooted and planted in Me. Do this and I will never fail you. I will ever abide in you.
I fear we are in danger of forgetting that to HAVE the Bible is one thing, and to READ it quite another.
Wherever we may be, or whatever our circumstances, the Lord Jesus sees them. We are never beyond the reach of His care.
It costs something to be a true Christian. It will cost us our sins, our self-righteousn ess, our ease and our worldliness.
Let us beware of repentance without evidence.
If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.
The eye of God! Think of that. Everywhere, in every house, in every field, in every room, in every company, alone or in a crowd, the eye of God is always upon you.
Do we profess to love Christ? Then let us show it by our lives.
Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our own hearts will, if we do not watch and pray.
To say that we are sorry for our sins is mere hypocrisy, unless we show that we are really sorry for them, by giving them up. Doing is the very life of repentance.
To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.
Whatever others around you think, don't you ever be ashamed of being a Christian.
Until we give God our heart, we give Him nothing at all.
Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.
The nearer we live to God while we live, the more ready we will be to dwell forever in His presence when we die.
Examine your own hearts. Do you see there any habit or custom which you know is wrong in the sight of God? If you do, don't delay for a moment in attacking it. Resolve at once to lay it aside. Nothing darkens the eyes of the mind so much, and deadens the conscience so surely, as an allowed sin. It may be a little one, but it is not any less dangerous.
Faith is to the soul what life is to the body. Prayer is to faith what breath is to the body. How a person can live and not breathe is past my comprehension, and how a person can believe and not pray is past my comprehension too.
Backsliding, generally first begins with neglect of private prayer.
Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel cold, dull, and backsliding? Look unto Jesus.
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