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God is never, never, never obligated to be merciful to sinners. That is the point we must stress if we are to grasp the full measure of God's grace.Chosen by God (26)
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
Mercies come from God as returns of prayer, when they make you more to rejoice in the God that hears your prayers and gives you the mercy than in the mercy you receive from God.
There is a threefold mercy in God: preventing mercy, which steps between us and trouble; delivering mercy, which takes us out of the hand of trouble; and sparing mercy, which though it do not prevent nor deliver, yet it mitigates, allays, and graciously moderates our troubles. And though sparing mercy be desirable and sweet, yet it is the least and lowest sort of mercy that God exercises toward any.
Compare thy mercies and afflictions together. Have not mercies flowed in upon thee like a flood, whereas afflictions have fallen upon thee but like drops? For one affliction, thou hast had an hundred mercies.
This is certainly greater than any affliction, that you have the day of grace and salvation, that you are not now in hell. This is a greater mercy, that you have the sound of the gospel yet in your ears, that you have the use of your reason. This is a greater mercy than your afflictions, that you have the use of your limbs, your senses; that you have the health of your bodies. Health of body is a greater mercy than poverty is an affliction; there is no man that is rich but if he be wise, if he hath a sickly body, he would part with all his riches that he might have his health. Therefore thy mercies are more than thy afflictions.
Mercies make a humble soul glad but not proud. A humble soul is lowest when his mercies are highest. He is least when he is greatest. He is lowest when he is highest. He is most poor when he is most rich. Nothing melts like mercy; nothing draws like mercy; nothing humbles like mercy
He that demands mercy and shows none ruins the bridge over which himself is to pass.
God not only keeps an account of thy sins but of the mercies thou hast received, and thou must be answerable for both. Christian in Complete Armour
Joy is the highest testimony that can be given to our complacency in any thing or person. Love is to joy as fuel to the fire. If love lay little fuel of desires on the heart, then the flame of joy that comes thence will not be great.
There are three expressions of a great joy in Scripture: the joy of a woman after her travail, the joy of harvest, and the joy of him that divides the spoil. The exultation of all these is wrought upon a sad ground; many a pain and tear it costs the travailing woman, many a fear the husbandman, perils and wounds the soldier before they come at their joy, but at last are paid for all, the remembrance of their past sorrows feeding their present joys.
Keep a diary of thy family sins and mercies, that neither the one may escape thy confession and humiliation nor the other thy grateful recognition. If this were observed, we should not come with such barren hearts to the work, as now most do. Christian in Complete Armour
He is the best Christian who keeps the history of God's gracious dealings with him most carefully so that he may read it in his past experiences when at any time his thoughts trouble him and his spiritual rest is broken with distracting fears for the future. Christian in Complete Armour
Preserve thy experiences of past mercies, and thy hope will grow stronger for the future.
Ignorance, above other sins, enslaves a soul to Satan; a knowing man may be his slave, but an ignorant one can be no other. Knowledge does not make the heart good, but it is impossible that without knowledge it should be good. There are some sins which an ignorant person cannot commit; there are more which he cannot but commit.
Hypocrisy in religion springs from the bitter root of some carnal affection unmortified…. God is in the hypocrite's mouth, but the world is in his heart, which he expects to gain through his good reputation.
It is sincere faith that is the strong faith, sincere love that is the mighty love. Hypocrisy is to grace as the worm is to the oak, the rust to the iron—it weakens them because it corrupts them.
The Christian, by his sorrow, shows himself a conqueror of that sin which even now overcame him, while the hypocrite, by his pride, shows himself a slave to a worse lust than that he resists. While the Christian commits a sin, he hates it, whereas the other loves it while he forbears it.
Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.
Can a bird fly when one of its wings is broken? Faith and a good conscience are hope's two wings; if, therefore, thou hast wounded thy conscience by any sin, renew thy repentance, that so thou mayest exercise faith for the pardon of it and redeem thy hope.
Hope is a prying grace; it is able to look beyond the exterior transactions of providence. It can, by the help of the promise, peep into the very bosom of God and read what thoughts and purposes are written there concerning the Christian's particular estate, and this it imparts to him, bidding him not to be at all troubled to hear God speaking roughly to him in the language of His providence. "For," saith hope, "I can assure thee He means thee well, whatever He saith that sounds otherwise."
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