Guidance & Wisdom
A minister must preach just as he would talk, if he wishes to be fully understood.
Aim to obey perfectly the written law. In other words, have no fellowship with sin. Aim at being entirely above the world; if you sin at all, let it be your daily grief.
Sanctification is obedience, and, as a progressive thing, consists in obeying God more and more perfectly and perpetually.
Truth by itself will do nothing but harden men in impenitence.
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.
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.
Winning souls is converting men.
Truth is the food for the mind—it is what gives the mind strength.
The Gospel will never produce any great effects, until ministers talk to their hearers, in the pulpit, as they talk in private conversation.
Facts, real or supposed, should be used to show the truth.
If you have much of the Spirit of God, it is not unlikely you will be thought deranged, by many. We judge men to be deranged when they act differently from what we think to be prudent and according to common sense.
You must not only recall them to mind, but you must actually renounce them, and leave them off.
Religion is obedience to God, the voluntary submission of the soul to the will of God.
If you will then go over the ground the second time, and give your solemn and fixed attention to it, you will find that the things you have put down will suggest other things of which you have been guilty, connected with them, or near them.
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