Guidance & Wisdom
There is so little principle in the church, so little firmness and stability of purpose, that unless the religious feelings are awakened and kept excited, counter worldly feeling and excitement will prevail.
Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
It is the man that makes the action, not the action the man.
God will not accept a divided heart.
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!
To be approved of God in the heart and in sincerity is not an ordinary mercy.
A man need not try to pull a man out of the river if he is in it himself.
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.
The life is the indorsement of the lips.
Do nothing but that which ye may and would do if your eye-strings were breaking, and your breath growing cold.
But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else. For each man will bear his own burden.
But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. For every man shall bear his own burden.
The soul of religion is the practical part.
Let me beware of the sleek-faced hypocrisy which is armour-bearer to heresy and infidelity.
By far the greatest thing a man can do for his City is to be a good man. Simply to live there as a good man, as a Christian man of action and practical citizen, is the first and highest contribution any one can make to its salvation.
Christians are God’s witnesses necessarily, because the world will not read the Bible, but they will read our lives.
Sound Protestant and Evangelical doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life.
The religion that has no fire is like painted fire.
If our work is mere profession on our part, the quicker we renounce it the better.
A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing!
Saying and doing are two things, and are as diverse as are the soul and the body.
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