Guidance & Wisdom
Lingering is the sure destruction of a happy Christianity.
Christ is the mainspring both of doctrinal and practical Christianity. A right knowledge of Christ is essential to a right knowledge of sanctification as well as justification. He that follows after holiness will make no progress unless he gives to Christ His rightful place.
The same fire which melts the wax hardens the clay.
Genuine Scriptural holiness will make a man do his duty at home and by the fireside.
It is useless to try to answer such questions. Let us be content to take the fact as we find it, and see what it is meant to teach us. We have no right whatever to say this thief was a worse man than his companion: there is nothing to prove it.
The worst chains are those which are neither felt nor seen by the prisoner.
The fairest babe that has entered life this year, and become the sunbeam of a family, is not, as its mother perhaps fondly calls it, a little ‘angel,’ or a little ‘innocent,’ but a little ‘sinner.’
It is well to be acquainted with all the doctrines and principles of Christianity. It is better to be acquainted with Christ Himself.
It is a solemn warning, when we think of the person Jesus names. He does not bid us remember Abraham, or Isaac, or Jacob, or Sarah, or Hannah, or Ruth. No: He singles out one whose soul was lost for ever.
A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing!
Union is the bud, but communion is the flower: union is the babe, but communion is the strong man.
A man may go great lengths, and yet never reach true holiness. It is not knowledge—Balaam had that: nor great profession—Judas Iscariot had that: nor doing many things—Herod had that: nor zeal for certain matters in religion—Jehu had that.
Sound Protestant and Evangelical doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life.
This also sounds hard. I do not wonder. Our sins are often as dear to us as our children: we love them, hug them, cleave to them, and delight in them.
True holiness does not consist merely of believing and feeling, but of doing and bearing.
In soul matters fear moderation just as you would fear the plague.
Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.
Gold may be bought too dear.
The day of judgment will prove that many besides husbands have been won without the word by a holy life.
As we die, so we shall receive our portion after death: as the tree falls, so it must lie.
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