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Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls.
Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven.
The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world.
There is the seed of all sins--of the vilest and worst of sins--in the best of men.
Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.
Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace.
Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.
Christ is the sun, and all the watches of our lives should be set by the dial of his motion.
God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.
That sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy seat is a sinful sorrow.
We trust as we love, and where we love. If we love Christ much, surely we shall trust him much.
Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer.
Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.
Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.
Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life.
A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy.
A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.
The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter.
Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter.
The greatest and the hottest fires that ever were on earth are but ice in comparison to the fire of hell.
The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low.
The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts.
When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.
Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth.
If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer 'Action!'
There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has.
Man’s holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man’s greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness.
True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.
Christ is lovely, Christ is very lovely, Christ is most lovely, Christ is always lovely, Christ is altogether lovely.
When God's hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall be but short.
Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord.
Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.
God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God's palace, yet it is not his prison.
The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven.
A preacher's life should be a commentary upon his doctrine... Heavenly doctrines should always be adorned with a heavenly life.
Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant.
It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.
It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most, who has most communion with God.
A man's most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions.
Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most praying souls are the most assured souls.
The sovereignty of God is that golden sceptre in his hand by which he will make all bow, either by his word or by his works, by his mercies or by his judgements.
Ah, believer, it is only Heaven that is above all winds, storms, and tempests; God did not cast man out of Paradise that he might find another paradise in this world.
Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are all the hell that ever you shall have.
What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless, services shall have lifeless answers. When men are dull, God will be dumb.
When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger.
Your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all
An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail.
Though there is nothing more dangerous, yet there is nothing more ordinary, than for weak saints to make their sense and feeling the judge of their condition. We must strive to walk by faith.
Every thing that a man leans upon but God, will be a dart that will certainly pierce his heart through and through. He who leans only upon Christ, lives the highest, choicest, safest, and sweetest life.