Strength & Perseverance
The more spiritual an exercise, the more difficult it is for flesh and blood to maintain it.
Brother, beware of the smooth places of the way; if you are treading them, or if the way be rough, thank God for it.
If we would follow the Lord wholly, we must go right away into the wilderness of separation, and leave the Egypt of the carnal world behind us.
It is blessed working when Jesus is at our side!
He can labour without present reward, for he looks for a reward in the world to come.
Many foes will attempt to extinguish it; but if the unseen hand behind the wall pour thereon the sacred oil, it will blaze higher and higher.
Fearless of all consequences, you must do the right. You will need the courage of a lion unhesitatingly to pursue a course which shall turn your best friend into your fiercest foe.
If this fire should be smothered beneath the ashes of a worldly conformity, it will dim the fire on the family altar, and lessen our influence both in the Church and in the world.
Better a brief warfare and eternal rest, than false peace and everlasting torment.
If to do the right, and to believe the true, should cause him to lose every earthly friend, he will count it but a small loss, since his great Friend in heaven will be yet more friendly.
They are well kept whom God keeps, but woe unto those who go forth into the world, or even dare to walk their own house unarmed.
By perseverance the snail reached the ark.
When the fish swallowed Jonah, he found him a morsel which he could not digest; and when the world devours the church, it is glad to be rid of it again.
Those who have most fellowship with Christ are not recluses or hermits, who have much time to spare, but indefatigable labourers who are toiling for Jesus.
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