Theme: Integrity
Sound Protestant and Evangelical doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life.
God will not accept a divided heart.
Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;
And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;
Let me beware of the sleek-faced hypocrisy which is armour-bearer to heresy and infidelity.
Let thy religion begin at home.
After I had left my father, though I wanted more money than at any previous period of my life, as I had to remain two years longer in the university, I determined, never to take any more from him.
It is the resolution of the mouth more than of the heart; their hearts are not strongly bent to fulfill what their mouth says.
If our work is mere profession on our part, the quicker we renounce it the better.
“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land which Yahweh your God gives you.”
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
But let each man examine his own work, and then he will have reason to boast in himself, and not in someone else. For each man will bear his own burden.
But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another. For every man shall bear his own burden.
By far the greatest thing a man can do for his City is to be a good man. Simply to live there as a good man, as a Christian man of action and practical citizen, is the first and highest contribution any one can make to its salvation.
There is nothing Christ dislikes more than for his people to make a show-thing of him, and not to use him.
The world loves its own, that all men worship talent, while only one here and one there values moral character.
The day of judgment will prove that many besides husbands have been won without the word by a holy life.
The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips. He walked with me in peace and uprightness, and turned many away from iniquity.
The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips: he walked with me in peace and equity, and did turn many away from iniquity.
A man need not try to pull a man out of the river if he is in it himself.
To be approved of God in the heart and in sincerity is not an ordinary mercy.
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.
The Lord’s work is not like the cheap work of the present day, which soon goes to pieces.
Sanctity is in character and not in moods; Divinity in our own plain calm humanity, and in no mystic rapture of the soul.
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