Guidance & Wisdom
An unknown good moves not to desire or endeavor.
Heaven is a state of perfect holiness, and of continual love and praise to God and the wicked have no heart to this. The imperfect love, and praise, and holiness, which is here to be attained, they have no mind of.
God is not a man, that thou shouldst dally and play with him.
The cause why the wicked die and are damned is because they will die and be damned.
The Lord seeth whither thou art going better than thou dost, which makes him call after thee, ‘Turn, turn.’ He seeth what will become of thee if thou turn not. He thinketh with himself, ‘Ah this poor sinner will cast himself into endless torments if he do not turn.’
Nothing in this world deserves once to be named in comparison with matters of eternity.
Your disability is your very unwillingness itself which excuseth not your sin, but maketh it the greater.
If you knew you were out of the way to heaven, durst you sleep another night in the state you are in?
They die, because they will die; that is, because they will not turn.
The greatest hope that the devil hath is by keeping you blind-fold and ignorant of your state.
You might have had Christ, and would not. Remember, when you have lost it, that you might have had eternal life as well as others, and would not.
It is not God that is cruel to you; it is you that are cruel to yourselves.
It is a certain truth that no man can be willing of any evil as evil, but only as it hath some appearance of good; much less can any man be willing to be eternally tormented.