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Times are bad, God is good.
God's truth always agrees with itself.
The wronged side is always the safest.
It is atheism to pray and not wait on hope.
God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.
There is more mercy in Christ than sin in us.
Self-emptiness prepares us for spiritual fullness.
What the heart liketh best, the mind studieth most.
A man may be a false prophet and yet speak the truth.
It is a destructive addition to add anything to Christ
Those that look to be happy must first look to be holy.
What coward would not fight when he is sure of victory?
The way to cover our sin is to uncover it by confession.
It is better to go bruised to heaven than sound to hell.
that which is begun in self-confidence will end in shame.
Providence is the perpetuity and continuance of creation.
Poverty and affliction take away the fuel that feeds pride.
Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.
The depths of our misery can never fall below the depths of mercy.
Christ does not choose you because you are good, but to make you good.
See a flame in a spark, a tree in a seed. See great things in little beginnings.
Sin is not so sweet in the committing as it is heavy and bitter in the reckoning.
A curse lies upon those that, when the truth suffers, have not a word to defend it.
Possibilitas tua mensura tua'(What is possible to you is what you will be measured by).
A man knows no more in religion than he loves and embraceth with the affections of his soul.
It is Christ's manner to trouble our souls first, and then to come with healing in his wings.
The soul is never quiet till it comes to God . . . and that is the one thing the soul desireth.
If we would make it evident that our conversion is sound, we must loathe and hate sin from the heart.
The winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.
There is not a minute of time in all of our life but we must either be near to God or we will be undone.
When we grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things again by sharp crosses.
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.
The life of a Christian is wondrously ruled in this world, by the consideration and meditation of the life of another world.
Whatsoever God takes away from His children, He either replaces it with a much greater favor or else gives strength to bear it.
If Christ has once possessed the affections, there is no dispossessing of him again. A fire in the heart overcomes all fires without.
Satan gives Adam an apple, and takes away paradise. Therefore in all temptations consider not what he offers, but what we shall lose.
Let weak Christians know that a spark from heaven, though kindled under green wood that sobs and smokes, yet it will consume all at last.
God will have the body partake with the soul-as in matters of grief, so in matters of joy; the lanthorn shines in the light of the candle within.
The life of a Christian should be a meditation how to unloose his affection from inferior things. He will easily die that is dead before in affection.
This is a life of faith, for God will try the truth of our faith, so that the world may see that God has such servants as will depend upon His bare word.
In the godly, holy truths are conveyed by way of a taste; gracious men have a spiritual palate as well as a spiritual eye. Grace alters the spiritual taste.
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.
God's children improve all advantages to advance their grand end; they labour to grow better by blessings and crosses, and to make sanctified use of all things.
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.
What unthankfulness is it to forget our consolations, and to look upon matters of grievance. To think so much upon two or three crosses as to forget an hundred blessing.
It is good to divert our sorrow for other things to the root of all, which is sin. Let our grief run most in that channel, that as sin bred grief, so grief may consume sin.
We cannot say this or that trouble shall not befall, yet we may, by help of the Spirit, say, nothing that doth befall shall make me do that which is unworthy of a Christian.
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.
God takes a safe course with His children, that they may not be condemned with the world, He permits the world to condemn them, that they may not love the world, the world hates them.
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.