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Not grace to bar what is not bliss,
Nor flight from all distress, but this:
The grace that orders our trouble and pain,
And then, in the darkness, is there to sustain.
http://www.desiringgod.org/resource-library/sermons/sustained-by-sovereign-grace-foreverGrace0No man preaches a sermon well to others who does not first preach it to his own heart.
Preaching0Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.
Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers Chapter 2Sin0Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers Chapter 2
Without absolutes revealed from God Himself, we are left rudderless in a sea of conflicting ideas.
Truth0Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out the gospel in our souls
Holiness0The gospel is most wickedly eclipsed while multitudes of petty "scholars" fret themselves how they might best teach the faith within a rigidly structured, accurate, methodical-philosophical form! A great multitude of errors have swarmed into the church through the reception of philosophy, like Greeks out of the belly of the Trojan horse...The clear fact is that the common, Aristotelian philosophy supplied sufficient materials for an infinity of quarrels and useless disputes. The facts shout out to heaven that our little, witty, chattering sophists, in their endless wrangling over the "articles of faith," are simply raking over the embers of Aristotle's philosophy, and in so doing they irritate the throne of Almighty God with legal quarrels and cheap tricks...It is a result of this that our theological libraries are packed full of weighty tomes, and our disputes are without end, and the most about matters, assertions and terms the Christian world would have done far better never to have heard of -and would not have heard of if they had not happened to enter the fertile brain of Aristotle so long ago! But the full catalog, the great Iliad of evils so produced, this is not the place to try to expound in detail.
Biblical Theology: The History of Theology from Adam to ChristPhilosophy, Greeks, Theology0Biblical Theology: The History of Theology from Adam to Christ
It is better that our affections exceed our light from the defect of our understandings, than that our light exceed our affections from the corruption of our wills.
Works, Vol 1. 401Contemplation0Works, Vol 1. 401
It is not the distance of the earth from the sun, nor the sun's withdrawing itself, that makes a dark and gloomy day; but the interposition of clouds and vaporous exhalations. Neither is thy soul beyond the reach of the promise, nor does God withdraw Himself; but the vapours of thy carnal, unbelieving heart do cloud thee.
Unbelief0A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.
Prayer0You need grace! But someone says if you throw that much grace around it will be a liscence for sin. Only among the unconverted Church members. Oh they will take it as an excuse for sin. The genuinely converted will say this, if grace be such. If it be so large and so wide... depths I cannot sound. Then oh let me be holy!
UnknownGrace0Unknown
I desire to cast my crown at the feet of Jesus, and to cry grace! grace! Dear Sir, what a charming word is that? I am sure I can freely own, that all my salvation is of grace, unmerited, distinguishing, electing grace!
Grace0Lusts that pretend to be useful to the state and condition of men, that are pleasant and satisfactory to the flesh, will not be mortified without such a violence as the whole soul shall be deeply sensible of.
https://ccel.org/ccel/owen/pneum/pneum.i.viii.viii.htmlSin, Lust0Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.
Grace0The best man is more unworthy to receive anything from God than the worst can be to receive from us.
Grace0Repentance was never yet produced in any man's heart apart from the grace of God. As soon may you expect the leopard to regret the blood with which its fangs are moistened, as soon might you expect the lion of the wood to abjure his cruel tyranny over the feeble beasts of the plain, as expect the sinner to make any confession, or offer any repentance that shall be accepted of God, unless grace shall first renew the heart.
Grace0he that would be little in temptation, let him be much in prayer
https://ccel.org/ccel/owen/temptation/temptation.i.viii.htmlTemptation, Prayer0No repentance is acceptable with God but what is built on the faith of forgiveness
Faith, Repentance, Forgiveness0[Sin] cannot be killed without a sense of pain and trouble. Hence it is compared to the cutting off of right hands, and the plucking out of right eyes.
https://ccel.org/ccel/owen/pneum/pneum.i.viii.viii.htmlSin0Temptations and occasions put nothing into man, but only draw out what was in him before.
Temptation0We do not have the ability in ourselves to accomplish the least of God's tasks. This is the law of grace.
Grace, Work0He that hath slight thoughts of sin never had great thoughts of God.
Sin0no man preacheth that sermon well that doth not first preach it to his own heart-If the word do not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us
Preaching0Those who suppose that the doctrine of God's grace tends to encourage moral laxity are simply showing that, in the most literal sense, they do not know what they are talking about. For love awakens love in return;
Knowing God (The Grace of God, 152)Grace0Knowing God (The Grace of God, 152)
There is a call, a cry, in every rod of God, in every chastising providence; and therein He makes a declaration of His name, His holiness, His power, His greatness.
Providence0Let them pretend what they please, the true reason why any despise the new birth is because they hate a new life. He that cannot endure to live to God will as little endure to hear of being born of God.
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