Measure not God's love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day as it does in the brightest. The difference is not in the sun, but in some clouds which hinder the manifestation of the light thereof.
There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.
Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away paradise. Therefore in all temptations consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.
The whole life of a Christian should be nothing but praises and thanks to God; we should neither eat nor sleep, but eat to God and sleep to God and work to God and talk to God, do all to His glory and praise.
The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.
Gospel repentance is not a little hanging down of the head. It's a working of the heart until your sin becomes more odious to you than any punishment for it.
Times are bad, God is good.
The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.
What the heart liketh best, the mind studieth most.
When we go to God by prayer, the devil knows we go to fetch strength against him, and therefore he opposes us all he can.
Whatsoever is good for God's children they shall have it, for all is theirs to further them to heaven; therefore, if poverty be good, they shall have it; if disgrace be good, they shall have it; if crosses be good, they shall have them; if misery be good, they shall have it; for all is ours, to serve for our greatest good.
It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell.
God knows we have nothing of ourselves, therefore in the covenant of grace he requires no more than he gives, but gives what he requires, and accepts what he gives.
God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.
Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness.
It is a destructive addition to add anything to Christ
The soul is never quiet till it comes to God . . . and that is the one thing the soul desireth.
See a flame in a spark, a tree in a seed. See great things in little beginnings.
Christ does not choose you because you are good, but to make you good.
Those that look to be happy must first look to be holy.
Whatsoever God takes away from His children, He either replaces it with a much greater favor or else gives strength to bear it.
It would be a good contest amongst Christians, one to labour to give no offence, and the other to labour to take none. The best men are severe to themselves, tender over others.
Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.
God is goodness itself, in whom all goodness is involved. If therefore we love other things for the goodness which we see in them, why do we not love God, in whom is all goodness? All other things are but sparks of that fire, and drops of that sea. If you see any good in the creature, remember there is much more in the Creator. Leave therefore the streams, and go to the fountainhead of comfort.
The love of a wife to her husband may begin from the supply of her necessities, but afterwards she may also love his person: so the soul first loves Christ for salvation, but when it is brought to him, and finds what sweetness there is in him, then the soul loves him for himself, and esteems his person, as well as rejoices in his benefits.
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