Guidance & Wisdom
No chain is stronger than its weakest link.
Sin soon destroys a believer’s comfort. It is the poisonous upas tree, from whose leaves distil deadly drops which destroy the life of joy and peace.
Let thy religion begin at home.
We can never be happy, restful, or spiritually healthy till we become holy.
The carnal mind always maps out for itself a way in which self can work and become great, but the Lord’s way is quite the reverse.
Be wise and attend to the obeying, and let Christ manage the providing.
Had he not chastened us thus, we might have become too secure. Continued worldly prosperity is a fiery trial.
We, too, may be engaged in the most menial part of the Lord’s work, but it is a great privilege to do anything for ‘the king.’
My days of sloth have ruinously destroyed all that I had achieved in times of zealous industry.
Discernment is not knowing the difference between right and wrong. It is knowing the difference between right and almost right.
Remember, O soul, it may be now or never with you. Let it be NOW; it would be horrible that it should be never.
Idleness and luxury are the devil’s jackals, and find him abundant prey.
The armour-bearer of Sin is Self-confidence.
There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for his people to make a show-thing of him, and not to use him.
Every tear which trickles from your eye, weeps ‘imperfection;’ every harsh word which proceeds from your lip, mutters ‘imperfection.’
Do not give fair names to foul sins; call them what you will, they will smell no sweeter.
Judge yourself at what Christ is rather than at what you are.
You must be divorced from your sin, or you cannot be married to Christ.
You may but speak a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart.
He rules by the force of love and the energy of goodness.
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