Guidance & Wisdom
Saying and doing are two things, and are as diverse as are the soul and the body.
You come in by yourselves without his direction, and shall go out by yourselves without his mercy.
If it be unlawful to follow Christ for loaves, how much more abominable is it to make of him and religion a stalking-horse to get and enjoy the world!
The cause is sleep, or forgetfulness: some sleep when they should keep awake, and some forget when they should remember.
I am a servant of the God of heaven; my business is to persuade sinners to repentance.
Nature is not affected with the harms that others have met with, especially if that thing upon which they look has an attracting virtue upon the foolish eye.
Whatever is thrust into the worship of God that is not agreeable to divine revelation, cannot be done but by a human faith.
Hearing is but as the sowing of the seed; talking is not sufficient to prove that fruit is indeed in the heart.
Better, though difficult, the right way to go, than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.
The soul of religion is the practical part.
This parlor is the heart of a man that was never sanctified by the sweet grace of the Gospel. The dust is his original sin, and inward corruptions, that have defiled the whole man.
Sin and corruption, I said, would as naturally bubble out of my heart, as water would bubble out of a fountain.
The way to heaven is as a ladder, and the way to hell is as down a hill.
I am in the King’s highway, the way of holiness; therefore take heed to yourself.
One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner.
There is a way to hell, even from the gate of heaven, as well as from the City of Destruction.
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