January Featured Quotes
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The easiest way to burn out, give up, and live in constant frustration is to believe you're responsible to make huge progress in a short time.
What a joke! Almost nobody does that.
Why? Because we're men, not gods.
Embrace slow, small, faithful moves in the right direction.
Brian Sauve
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there is something far more dreadful than physical calamity and suffering, namely, moral delinquency and spiritual apostasy. Alas, that this is so rarely perceived today!
A.W. Pink
The Life of Elijah. Chapel Library.
a half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth 
J.I. Packer
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Quotes on Eternity
It will take all of eternity to fathom God's love, and those who are saved will never plumb the depths of it.
We live in an age where there is a false glare on the things of time, and a great mist over the things of eternity.Old Paths, 22
It is tragic that we are so negligent about the eternal and are so concerned about that which must inevitably come to an end. It is better to be a cripple in this life, says our Lord, than to lose everything in the next. Put your soul and its eternal destiny before everything else.Studies in the Sermon on the Mount (217)
Let us be firmly persuaded of the reality of this wrath to come- Let us adore and fear the greatness of God, and be moved to turn to Him- Let us consider what it is to die, and what the state of the other world is- Let believers learn highly to value that salvation which Christ obtains for them.
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Quotes on Time
Friends lost may be reconciled, an estate lost may be regained, but time lost can never be recalled.
Besides public ordinances, we should give ourselves to spiritual exercises in secret.
All the time we can spare from our necessary, civil, and natural actions should be employed in calling to mind what we have seen, heard, or felt of God.
Avoid trivial pursuits. You are a child of God, destined for glory, and called to do great things in His Name. Do not waste your life on hobbies, sports, and other recreational pursuits. Do not throw away the precious moments of your life on entertainment, movies, and video games. Though some of these things can properly have a 'small place' in the Christian's life, we must be careful not to give undue attention to temporal and fruitless activities. Do not waste your life. Employ the time of your youth in developing the character and skills necessary to be a useful servant of God.
Instead of consuming their leisure hours in vacant idleness, or deriving their chief amusement from boisterous merriment, the recital of tales of superstition, or the chanting of the profane songs of the heathen, they passed their hours of repose in rational and enlivening pursuits; found pleasure in enlarging their religious knowledge, and entertainment in songs that were dedicated to the praise of God.The Antiquities of the Christian Church
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Quotes on Conscience
God hath given us three books, which we ought to be studying whilst we are living: the book of conscience, the book of Scripture, and the book of the creature; in the book of conscience we may read ourselves, in the book of the creature we may read God, in the book of Scripture we may read both God and ourselves.
Bee-masters tell us, that they are the best hives which make the greatest noise; so that conscience is the best which makes the greatest noise in daily reasonings and debates before it's own bar.
We must be ready to give up anything and everything for the sake of the principles which we have espoused, and must be ready to offend our best supporters, to alienate our warmest friends, sooner than belie our consciences.Lectures to my Students
A good conscience is one trained by the Holy Spirit through the Word of God. When we understand God's truth clearly and are convicted by it firmly, then the governor of conscience begins to
rule us into righteousness. Mystery of the Holy Spirit (109)
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Quotes on Worldliness
Our immoderate love of life and its comforts and conveniences is another cause of sinful fear in times of danger. If we loved our lives less, we would fear and tremble less.Triumphing over Sinful Fear, 42
If friends will not walk in the narrow way with us, we must not walk in the broad way to please them. Health is not infectious but disease is.
Go offer your employer how much you offer God, see how long you last.
That very church which the world likes best is sure to be that which God abhors.
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Keep thy speech as clean from all obscenity as thou wouldst thy meat from poison, and let thy talk be gracious, that he who hears thee may grow better by thee. And be ever more earnest when thou speakest of religion than when thou talkest of worldly matters. If thou perceivest that thou hast erred, persevere not in thine error; rejoice to find the truth and magnify it. Study, therefore, three things especially—to understand well, to say well, and to do well.
The soul is the richest piece of embroidery ever made by the hands of God: the understanding bespangled with light; the will invested with liberty; the affections, like a harp, tuned by the Holy Ghost.
The soul is a divine spark kindled by the breath of God…. It is a bright mirror in which some refracted beams of God's wisdom and holiness do shine forth; the soul is a blossom of eternity.
The soul hath three places of being: in the body from the Lord, in the Lord from the body, in the body with the Lord. The two last are referred to our salvation in heaven, either in part, when the soul is glorified alone, or totally, when both are crowned together. Now, the soul must be even here in the Lord's keeping or else it is lost. If God let go His hold, it sinks. It came from God; it returns to God. It cannot be well one moment without God.
Some men are least alone when most alone. When Jacob was left alone, he wrestled with God.
My brethren, a man that is slothful, there is no love in that man. Lazy love is pretended love, for where love is and according to the degrees of it, such will a man's labor be. You that find dullness in duties and the ways of God, you do not run the ways of God's commands; strengthen your love, and you will mend your pace—that is certain. Now pray, look to your whole lives and observe what your labor is laid out for.
A slothful spirit is an impediment to a heavenly life, and I verily think there is nothing hinders it more than this in men of a good understanding. If it were only the exercise of the body, the moving of the lips, the bending of the knee, men would as commonly step to heaven as they go to visit a friend. But to separate our thoughts and affections from the world, to draw forth all our graces and increase each in its proper object, and to hold them to it till the work prospers in our hands—this, this is the difficulty.
Sloth, indeed, does affect ease and quiet, but by affecting them does lose them; it hates labor and trouble, but by hating them does incur them. It is a self-destroying vice, not suffering those who cherish it to be idle but creating much work and multiplying pains unto them; engaging them into diverse necessities and straits which they cannot support with ease; and out of which, without extreme trouble, they cannot extricate themselves.
His hand may be hidden, but his rule is absolute.Concise Theology, Ch 21
providence is a continued exercise of that same energy whereby the Creator according to his own will, (1) keeps all creatures in being, (2) involves himself in all events, and (3) directs all things to their appointed end.Concise Theology, Ch 21
To divulge a report before we speak with the party and know the truth of it is unmercifulness and cannot acquit itself of sin. The same word in the Hebrew, to raise a slander, signifies to receive it (Ex. 23:1). The receiver is even as bad as the thief; it is well if none of us have, in this sense, received stolen goods. When others have stolen away the good names of their brethren, have not we received the stolen goods? There would not be so many to broach false rumors, but that they see this liquor pleases other men's taste.
Slander is a water in great request; every guest of the devil is continually sipping of this vial. It robs man of his good name, which is above all riches. It is the part of vile men to vilify others and to climb up to unmerited praise by the stairs of another's disgrace.
Insomuch as we give way to our will in sinning, in such a measure of distance we set ourselves from comfort. Sin against conscience is a thief in the candle which wastes our joy and thereby weakens our strength. We must know, therefore, that willful breaches in sanctification will much hinder the sense of our justification.
Good God, whither is man fallen! First, we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it. Sin is first our burden, then our custom, then our delight, then our excellency!
Though we cannot be altogether without sin, yet we must not altogether leave off to resist sin. Sin reigns where it is not resisted.
Did not God spare His own Son? Then let none of us spare our own sins. Sin was that sword which pierced Christ. O let sorrow for sin pierce your hearts! If you spare sin, God will not spare you (Deut. 29:20). We spare sin when we faintly oppose it; when we excuse, cover, and defend it; when we are impatient under just rebukes and reproofs for it. But all kindness to sin is cruelty to our own souls.
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