Guidance & Wisdom
There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for his people to make a show-thing of him, and not to use him.
The Church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men.
Do you then, my daughter, choose the best virtues, not those which are most highly esteemed; the most excellent, not the most visible; the truest, not the most conspicuous.
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!
An active effort to acquire virtue is the first step towards goodness; but an active effort to acquire honour is the first step towards contempt and shame.
If men are rich, they learn to be covetous; thirsting insatiably after the world, and by unjust means scraping it together.
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.
Humility makes our lives acceptable to God, meekness makes us acceptable to men.
If our religion is really our life, and not merely something extraneous tacked on to our life, it must necessarily go into everything in which we live.
Hereafter, whosoever cometh within the doors shall be requested to come within the discipline of my house; if accepting my homely diet, he will not refuse my home devotion; and sitting at my table, will be entreated to kneel down by it.
Let thy religion begin at home.
Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life.
Sanctity is in character and not in moods; Divinity in our own plain calm humanity, and in no mystic rapture of the soul.
Let me beware of the sleek-faced hypocrisy which is armour-bearer to heresy and infidelity.
If our work is mere profession on our part, the quicker we renounce it the better.
It is the resolution of the mouth more than of the heart; their hearts are not strongly bent to fulfill what their mouth says.
If we are going to be successful, we have got to take our stand for God, and let the world and everyone know we are on the Lord’s side.
“You shall not steal.”
Thou shalt not steal.
After I had left my father, though I wanted more money than at any previous period of my life, as I had to remain two years longer in the university, I determined, never to take any more from him.
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