Guidance & Wisdom
Though I was punished on this and other occasions, yet I do not remember that at any time, when my sins were found out, it made any other impression upon me than to make me think how I might do the thing the next time more cleverly, so as not to be detected.
The Christian by his sorrow shows himself a conqueror of that sin which even now overcame him; while the hypocrite by his pride shows himself a slave to a worse lust than that he resists.
Every tear which trickles from your eye, weeps ‘imperfection;’ every harsh word which proceeds from your lip, mutters ‘imperfection.’
I lusted to thieve, and did it, compelled by no hunger, nor poverty, but through a cloyedness of well-doing.
It is impossible that a man can take his lusts to heaven with him; such wares as these will not be welcome there.
To love then, and to be beloved, was sweet to me; but more, when I obtained to enjoy the person I loved, I defiled the spring of friendship with the filth of concupiscence.
Do not give fair names to foul sins; call them what you will, they will smell no sweeter.
Don’t be unequally yoked with unbelievers, for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?
The fairest babe that has entered life this year, and become the sunbeam of a family, is not, as its mother perhaps fondly calls it, a little ‘angel,’ or a little ‘innocent,’ but a little ‘sinner.’
We labor to cover our nakedness with the fig-leaves of our own righteousness.
Wherefore abandon all these ways of flattering yourselves; no longer follow the devil’s bait; and let nothing encourage you to go on in sin; but immediately and henceforth seek God with all your heart, and soul, and strength.
God’s testimony concerning man is, that he is a sinner.
The worst chains are those which are neither felt nor seen by the prisoner.
Sin soon destroys a believer’s comfort. It is the poisonous upas tree, from whose leaves distil deadly drops which destroy the life of joy and peace.
Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
It is not God that is cruel to you; it is you that are cruel to yourselves.
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.
One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner.
Oh, but we have need to be redeemed from ourselves, rather than from the devil and the world!
Confess and forsake your sins. God will never lead you as one of his hidden ones, and let you into his secrets, unless you confess and forsake your sins. Not be always confessing and never forsake, but confess and forsake too.
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