Guidance & Wisdom
Professional praying chills and kills both preaching and praying.
How can such friendships be other than shortlived, melting away like snow wreaths in the sun!
‘Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.’
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
If it’s the work of the devil turn your back against it. I would if I thought it was. If it is the work of God, be careful what you do. My friends, it is a terrible thing to fight against God.
The armour-bearer of Sin is Self-confidence.
Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.
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.
A sweet sin, harboured in the heart, will prevent a soul from laying hold upon Christ by faith.
Morning listlessness is the index to a listless heart.
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.
One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner.
There is not room in your heart for two thrones.
A man working without this unction, a man working without this anointing, a man working without the Holy Ghost upon him, is losing his time after all.
No learning can make up for the failure to pray.
Wealth to most men proves nothing more or less than a great rock upon which their eternity is wrecked.
But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
Lingering is the sure destruction of a happy Christianity.
I tell you, no, but unless you repent, you will all perish in the same way.
I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
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.’
It is a solemn warning, when we think of the person Jesus names. He does not bid us remember Abraham, or Isaac, or Jacob, or Sarah, or Hannah, or Ruth. No: He singles out one whose soul was lost for ever.
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