Guidance & Wisdom
There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for his people to make a show-thing of him, and not to use him.
Judge yourself at what Christ is rather than at what you are.
Be wise and attend to the obeying, and let Christ manage the providing.
You will find in the long run that it is far harder to shun the work and will of God than to at once yield yourself to it.
The carnal mind always maps out for itself a way in which self can work and become great, but the Lord’s way is quite the reverse.
Had he not chastened us thus, we might have become too secure. Continued worldly prosperity is a fiery trial.
You may but speak a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart.
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.
Do not give fair names to foul sins; call them what you will, they will smell no sweeter.
Majesty gleams in flashes of fire amid the tempest’s horrors, and the glory of the Lord is seen in its grandeur in the fall of empires.
Let me beware of the sleek-faced hypocrisy which is armour-bearer to heresy and infidelity.
By the agonies of Christ, by his wounds and by his blood, do not bring upon yourselves the wrath to come!
It is far easier to fight with sin in public, than to pray against it in private.
Covenant blessings are not meant to be looked at only, but to be appropriated.
We, too, may be engaged in the most menial part of the Lord’s work, but it is a great privilege to do anything for ‘the king.’
Discernment is not knowing the difference between right and wrong. It is knowing the difference between right and almost right.
He rules by the force of love and the energy of goodness.
Every tear which trickles from your eye, weeps ‘imperfection;’ every harsh word which proceeds from your lip, mutters ‘imperfection.’
Let thy religion begin at home.
Worldly wisdom recommends the path of compromise, and talks of ‘moderation.’
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