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A sheep may fall into a ditch, but it is the swine that wallows in it.
He who is his own teacher, is sure to have a fool for his master!
The Christian must always be at war. If he has peace with sin, he is at war with God.
If you allow your love of creature comforts — or even your pleasure in family and loved ones — to outrun your love for the Lord, you cannot be a victorious soldier for Christ.The Christian in Complete Armour, 1:72
The layman has a large field in which he may minister to his fellow man, even if he is not called to full time ministry.Christian in Complete Armour 1:300
Many there are that suffer the sun not only to go down upon their anger, but to run his whole race— yes, many races—ere they can be reconciled, whereby their anger becomes inveterate and turns into malice, for anger and malice differ but in age.
Anger is a tender virtue and such as by reason of our unskillfulness may be easily corrupted and made dangerous. He that in his anger would not sin must not be angry at anything but sin.
It is the great duty of all Christians to put off anger. It unfits for duty. A little jogging puts a clock or watch out of frame, so a little passion the heart. A man cannot wrestle with God and wrangle with his neighbor at the same time. Short sins often cost us long and sad sorrow. An angry man is like one in a crowd that hath sore bile; every one thrusts him and troubles him." With the froward thou wilt shew thys[elf] froward," a dreadful scripture to a peevish, froward man. Those that are too merry when pleased are commonly too angry when crossed. Blessed Lord, subdue this lust in my heart; I am very weak there. Lord, there strengthen me, turn the stream of my anger [against] self and sin. O how doth my anger at men make God angry at me! Lord, pardon in Christ
Anger may kindle in the breast of a wise man, but rests only in the bosom of a fool.Works, 101
Anger is a short madness; whensoever it displaces reason, it is sinful.Commentary, 1:603
there is a holy kind of anger, which the scripture does not disallow; so that, unless a man is angry in that way, he will never be a good and godly man. For a good man has a zeal for God, and in that godly zeal he is angry at the iniquity and naughtiness of mankind.The Decades https://www.monergism.com/decades-ebook
None sink so far into hell as those that come nearest heaven, because they fall from the greatest height.
Christian, take special care not to trust in the armour of God, but in the God of the armour.
Let your hope of Heaven master your fear of death. Why should you be afraid to die, who hope to live by dying!
Temptation is never stronger than when relief seems to dress itself in the very sin that Satan is suggesting.Christian in Complete Armour, 1:84
What lust is so valuable that it is worth burning in hell for?
Pride loves to climb up, not as Zacchaeus Golden Treasury
Christians spend more time fretting about what the minister should do than praying for God's direction in their own lives.The Christian in Complete Armour, 1:292
Unholiness in a preacher's life will either stop his mouth from reproving or the people's ears from receiving.
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