Guidance & Wisdom
An unknown good moves not to desire or endeavor.
For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.
For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life.
The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious, but a fool is swallowed by his own lips.
The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
I say, declare it by your lives. For to give him thanks, barely with your lips; while your hearts are far from him, is but a mock sacrifice, nay, an abomination unto the Lord.
To be approved of God in the heart and in sincerity is not an ordinary mercy.
Genuine Scriptural holiness will make a man do his duty at home and by the fireside.
The glory of God is the very thing for which man was made, and to which all other ends are subordinate.
This is great wisdom, not to be hasty in action, or stubborn in our own opinions.
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.
Truth is the food for the mind—it is what gives the mind strength.
Give diligence to present yourself approved by God, a workman who doesn’t need to be ashamed, properly handling the Word of Truth.
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Winning souls is converting men.
Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
Pride only breeds quarrels, but wisdom is with people who take advice.
Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
The whole world is not worth one soul, and the soul is worth but little without its good resolutions.
It is a question if any man on the face of the earth has ever been converted, without God using some human instrument, in some way.
As he grows in grace, he grows in isolation. He feels that God is detaching his life from all around it.
The heart is deceitful above all things and it is exceedingly corrupt. Who can know it?
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
To learn Christ is to be made like Christ, to have the divine characters of his holiness engraven upon our hearts: we all with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image.
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