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Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

A man walking alone down the middle of the one true path was more to Him, immensely more, than a great crowd wabbling along on the edge.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

If you think yourselves already converted, and that encourages you to give yourselves the greater liberty in sinning, this is a certain sign that you are not converted.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

Without self-knowledge you have no real root in yourselves.

Scripture · Guidance & Wisdom

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elemental spirits of the world, and not after Christ.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

I am ashamed of Christianity in the nineteenth century when I think of those early Christians. Why, it would take all the Christians in the Northwest to make one Paul.

Scripture · Guidance & Wisdom

For the time will come when they will not listen to the sound doctrine, but having itching ears, will heap up for themselves teachers after their own lusts,

Scripture · Guidance & Wisdom

My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you, so as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding; yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding; if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures; then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

What a man loves, that that man is. What a man chooses out of a hundred offers, you are sure by that who and what that man is.

Quote · Peace & Calm

A discontented Christian is like a rough tempestuous sea; when the water is rough you can see nothing there; but when it is smooth and serene, then you may behold your face in the water.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

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.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

The same fire which melts the wax hardens the clay.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

God judges a man not by his achievements, but by his purposes: not by what I am, actually, but by what I would be, in the yearning of my inmost heart.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

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.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

Grant, Lord, that I may not mangle and dismember thy word, but study it entirely, comparing one place with another.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

To live after the guise and course of the rest of the world will not bring you to heaven.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

We stand oft in our own light; if we should sort, or parcel out our own comforts, we should hit upon the wrong.

Scripture · Guidance & Wisdom

Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.”

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

Though we are engaged in it, and are obliged to work for our children; though we are obliged to follow trades and merchandise, and to be serviceable to the commonwealth, yet if we are real Christians, we shall be loose to the world.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

The way in which Satan ensnares persons, to bring them into the net, and to bring trouble upon them by becoming sureties, is, that he seeks to represent the matter as if there were no danger connected with that particular case.

Quote · Guidance & Wisdom

If you knew you were out of the way to heaven, durst you sleep another night in the state you are in?

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