Guidance & Wisdom
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.
Gold may be bought too dear.
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.
The day of judgment will prove that many besides husbands have been won without the word by a holy life.
This also sounds hard. I do not wonder. Our sins are often as dear to us as our children: we love them, hug them, cleave to them, and delight in them.
A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing!
As we die, so we shall receive our portion after death: as the tree falls, so it must lie.
You may deceive me or any other minister; it is easy to do so. You may receive the bread and wine from my hands, and yet be cleaving to iniquity in your hearts.
Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.
Sound Protestant and Evangelical doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life.
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.’
It is useless to try to answer such questions. Let us be content to take the fact as we find it, and see what it is meant to teach us. We have no right whatever to say this thief was a worse man than his companion: there is nothing to prove it.
Christ is the mainspring both of doctrinal and practical Christianity. A right knowledge of Christ is essential to a right knowledge of sanctification as well as justification. He that follows after holiness will make no progress unless he gives to Christ His rightful place.
True holiness does not consist merely of believing and feeling, but of doing and bearing.
The same fire which melts the wax hardens the clay.
He chose by sight, and not by faith. He asked no counsel of God, to preserve him from mistakes. He looked to the things of time, and not of eternity. He thought of his worldly profit, and not of his soul.
The worst chains are those which are neither felt nor seen by the prisoner.
Things that have not life will not grow.
It is well to be acquainted with all the doctrines and principles of Christianity. It is better to be acquainted with Christ Himself.
He that wishes to attain right views about Christian holiness, must begin by examining the vast and solemn subject of sin. He must dig down very low if he would build high. A mistake here is most mischievous. Wrong views about holiness are generally traceable to wrong views about human corruption.
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