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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
Suppose a king's son should get out of a besieged city where he had left his wife and children, whom he loves as his own soul, and these all ready to die by sword or famine if supply came not the sooner. Could this prince, when he arrived at his father's house, please himself with the delights of the court and forget the distress of his family? Or rather would he not come post to his father, having their cries and groans always in his ears, and before he eat or drink do his errand to his father and entreat him, if ever he loved him, that he would send all the force of his kingdom to raise the siege rather than any of his dear relations should perish?
why do you let your souls from their work, make them idle and rest from their burdens, by telling them of long life while death chops in upon you unawares?Christian in Complete Armour, 179
Least doers are great boasters.
Thou a Christian and carry hellfire about thee! How can it be? When we see a child furious and revengeful who comes of merciful parents, we…say we wonder of whom he got his currish, churlish disposition; his father and mother were not so. Who learns thee, O Christian, to be so revengeful and unmerciful? Thou hast it not of thy heavenly Father, I am sure.Gems, 19
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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