Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.
You have nothing to do but to save souls; therefore spend and be spent in this work.
We are always open to instruction, willing to be wiser every day than we were before, and to change whatever we can change for the better.
It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.
God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it.
God's command to "pray without ceasing" is founded on the necessity we have of His grace to preserve the life of God in the soul, which can no more subsist one moment without it, than the body can without air.
The case is this: God offers you one of the greatest mercies on this side of heaven and commands you to accept it. Why do you not accept this mercy in obedience to His command.... God offers you a pardon for all your sins.
The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself and less from others.
The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays.
He who governed the world before I was born shall take care of it likewise when I am dead. My part is to improve the present moment.
By salvation I mean not barely according to the vulgar notion deliverance from hell or going to heaven but a present deliverance from sin a restoration of the soul to its primitive health its original purity a recovery of the divine nature the renewal of our souls after the image of God in righteousness and true holiness in justice mercy and truth.
Thanksgiving is inseparable from true prayer; it is almost essentially connected with it. One who always prays is ever giving praise, whether in ease or pain, both for prosperity and for the greatest adversity. He blesses God for all things, looks on them as coming from Him, and receives them for His sake- not choosing nor refusing, liking or disliking,anything, but only as it is agreeable or disagreeable to His perfect will.
My talent is to speak my mind. God won't object if you bury that talent.
Preach faith till you have it; and then, because you have it, you will preach faith.
A sour religion is the devil's religion.
Nay, if there be any mistakes in the Bible, there may as well be a thousand. If there be one falsehood in that book, it did not come from the God of truth
This Book had to be written by one of three people: good men, bad men or God. It couldn't have been written by good men because they said it was inspired by the revelation of God. Good men don't lie and deceive. It couldn't have been written by bad men because bad men would not write something that would condemn themselves. It leaves only one conclusion. It was given by divine inspiration of God.
My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.
In using all means, seek God alone. In and through every outward thing, look only to the power of His Spirit, and the merits of His Son. Beware you do not get stuck in the work itself; if you do, it is all lost labor. Nothing short of God can satisfy your soul. Therefore, fix on Him in all, through all, and above all...Remember also to use all means as means-as ordained, not for their own sake.
The best of it all is, God is with us.
It is the Spirit that sheds the love of God abroad in their hearts, and the love of all mankind; thereby purifying their hearts from the love of the world, from the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life. It is by Him they are delivered from anger and pride, from all vile and inordinate affections.
God will do nothing but in answer to prayer.
The bottom of the soul may be in repose, even while we are in many outward troubles; just as the bottom of the sea is calm, while the surface is strongly agitated.
Suffer all, and conquer all.
Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.
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