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The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.
God's Love0Besides 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.
Time, Free Time0We are continually thinking of whatsoever we love.
Love causes the soul to be more where it loves than where it lives.Works 7:479
Works 7:479Thinking, Love0A child of God findeth a greater treasure in one chapter of the Bible than worldly men in all their lands and honours and large revenues.
Scripture, Treasure0You can never part with sin soon enough; it is a cursed inmate, that will surely bring mischief upon the soul that harbours it. It will set its own dwelling on fire.Works 7:147
Works 7:147Sin0The church is live a river. If it gets wider instead of deeper it will lose its power.
Church0God gave the Spirit to the rest of the apostles, but he gave the purse to the son of perdition.
Money, Holy Spirit0God loves all in some ways, and God loves some in all ways.
God's Love0What a man delights in he will be talking of.Works 7:476
Works 7:476Discussion, Talk0The whole work of sanctification, from its first step to its last period, is all of grace, all must be ascribed to God's free goodness.
Sanctification, Grace0To own and stand up for a hated and despised truth will bring more comfort to our souls than all the pleasure the wicked have in their sensual delights.
Delight, Soul, Truth0The devil seeks to weaken our opinion of God's goodness.
God's Goodness, Satan0To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.
God's Love0A godly man weeps sometimes out of the sense of God's love. Gold is the finest and most solid of all the metals, yet is soonest melted with the fire. Gracious hearts, which are golden hearts, are the soonest melted into tears by the fire of God's love.
God's Love0Love is the only attribute which God hath acted to the utmost. We have never seen the utmost of His power, what God can do, but we have seen the utmost of His love: He hath found a ransom for lost souls (Job 33:24).
God's Love0To humble us in our converses with God. He is good, but we are evil; he is heaven, but we are hell; he is perfect, but we are poor defective creatures. Therefore in all our approaches to him we should come the more humbly to him, and go the more holy from him; for it is sad when we come to the good God, and are never the better. If we go to the fire, we expect to be warm. Oh! when you come to the fountain of goodness, we should come away better. https://www.monergism.com/rich-young-ruler-exposition-mark-1017-27-ebookHumility, God's Goodness0As the excellency of his nature giveth him a fitness and a sufficiency for the government of mankind, his creation, preservation, and other benefits give him a full right to make what laws he pleaseth, and to call man to an account whether he hath kept them, yea or no.Works, Volume 10
Works, Volume 10The Law, Obedience0The more a man delighteth in God, and in the ways of God, the more he cleaveth to Him, and resolveth to go on in this course, and temptations to sensual delights do less prevail.
Delight, Temptation, Lust, Enjoying God0Men are ready to anger, slow to mercy, quickly enflamed, and hardly appeased; but it is quite contrary with God.
Anger, Mercy0There is tremendous relief in knowing his love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery can disillusion him about me.
God's Love0It is the love of Christ, i. e. his love to us which passes knowledge. It is infinite; not only because it inheres in an infinite subject, but because the condescension and sufferings to which it led, and the blessings which it secures for its objects, are beyond our comprehension. This love of Christ, though it surpasses the power of our understanding to comprehend, is still a subject of experimental knowledge. We may know how excellent, how wonderful, how free, how disinterested, how long-suffering, how manifold and constant, it is, and that it is infinite. And this is the highest and most sanctifying of all knowledge. Those who thus know the love of Christ towards them, purify themselves even as he is pure.
God's Love0Good 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!
Sin0Though we cannot be altogether without sin, yet we must not altogether leave off to resist sin. Sin reigns where it is not resisted.
Sin0It is usual in providence that they who have God's heart should feel God's hand most heavy. I have observed it, that God's children never question His love so much as in sickness. Our thoughts return upon us in such retirement, and the weakness of the body discomposes the mind and deprives us of the free exercise of spiritual reason; to sense and feeling all is sharp.
Sickness0Jewels do not lie upon the surface; you must get into the caverns and dark receptacles of the earth for them. No more do truths lie in the surface and outside of an expression. The beauty and glory of the Scriptures is within and must be fetched out with much study and prayer.
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