Guidance & Wisdom
I am in the King’s highway, the way of holiness; therefore take heed to yourself.
I am a servant of the God of heaven; my business is to persuade sinners to repentance.
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.
The way to heaven is as a ladder, and the way to hell is as down a hill.
There is a way to hell, even from the gate of heaven, as well as from the City of Destruction.
Whatever is thrust into the worship of God that is not agreeable to divine revelation, cannot be done but by a human faith.
Saying and doing are two things, and are as diverse as are the soul and the body.
Better, though difficult, the right way to go, than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.
If it be unlawful to follow Christ for loaves, how much more abominable is it to make of him and religion a stalking-horse to get and enjoy the world!
The soul of religion is the practical part.
The cause is sleep, or forgetfulness: some sleep when they should keep awake, and some forget when they should remember.
Hearing is but as the sowing of the seed; talking is not sufficient to prove that fruit is indeed in the heart.
You come in by yourselves without his direction, and shall go out by yourselves without his mercy.
One leak will sink a ship, and one sin will destroy a sinner.
Nature is not affected with the harms that others have met with, especially if that thing upon which they look has an attracting virtue upon the foolish eye.
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