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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
Praying and sinning will never live together in the same heart. Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
There are none so knowing that God cannot blind; none so blind and ignorant whose eyes His Spirit cannot open.
Pride makes a man incapable of receiving counsel. Nebuchadnezzar's mind is said to be "hardened in pride" (Dan. 5:20). There is no reasoning with a proud man; he castles himself in his own opinion of himself and there stands upon his defense against all arguments that are brought.
Be humble when thou art most holy. Which way soever pride works (as thou shalt find it like the wind, sometimes at one door and sometimes at another), resist it. Nothing more baneful to thy holiness. It turns righteousness into hemlock, holiness into sin. Never art thou less holy than when puffed up with the conceit of it.
A man may be so very zealous in prayer and painstaking in preaching, and all the while pride is the master whom he serves, though in God's livery. It can take sanctuary in the holiest actions and hide itself under the skirt of virtue itself. Thus, while a man is exercising his charity, pride may be the idol in secret for which he lavished out his gold so freely. It is hard starving this sin; there is nothing almost but it can live on.
A proud heart and a lofty mountain are never fruitful.
Unholiness in the preacher's life either will stop his mouth from reproving or the people's ears from receiving. Oh, how harsh a sound does such a cracked bell make in the ears of his auditors!
A minister without this boldness is like a smooth file, a knife without an edge, or a sentinel who is afraid to let off his gun when he should alarm the city upon a danger approaching. There is nothing more unworthy than to see a people bold to sin and the minister afraid to reprove them.
A worthy doctor's advice to ministers, as to their preaching, is applicable to Christians as to their praying. He bade them study for their sermons as if they expected no divine assistance in the pulpit, and when they came into the pulpit to cast themselves upon divine assistance as if they had not studied.
To preach truths and notions above the hearers' capacity is like a nurse that should go to feed a child with a spoon too big to go into its mouth.
It is uncharitableness not to pray for others and pride not to expect a benefit from the prayers of others.
Pray often rather than very long. It is difficult to remain long in prayer and not slacken in our affections. Those watches which are made to go longer than ordinary at one winding do commonly lose time toward the end.. He who in a long journey lights often to let his beast take breath will get to his journey's end sooner than he that puts him beyond his strength.
Ordinary prayer is the saint's food; he can as little miss the constant returns of it as his usual meals. But extraordinary prayer is his physic to clear and discharge the soul of those distempers which it contracts and cannot conquer by the use of ordinary means, as also to advance and heighten the Christian graces unto a farther degree of strength and activity.
Positively, to pray in faith is to ask of God, in the name of Christ, what He hath promised, relying on His power and truth for performance without binding Him up to time, manner, or means.
The greatness of thy request cannot hinder thy success. They are most welcome that ask most. Who are the persons frowned on at the throne of grace but those who lay out the strength of their desires and bestow their greatest importunity for mercies of least worth!
A weak hand with a sincere heart is able to turn the key in prayer.
He is the best student in divinity that studies most upon his knees.
God is very tender of this flower of His crown, this part of His name. Indeed, He cannot spell it right and leave out this letter, for that is God's name whereby He is known from all His creatures. Now man may be called wise, merciful, mighty; God, only all-wise, all-merciful, all-mighty. So when we leave out this syllable all, we nickname God and call Him by His creature's name, which He will not answer to.
True peace is the blessing of the gospel, and only of the gospel. This will appear in the several kinds of peace, which may be sorted into those four. First, peace with God, which we may call peace of reconciliation. Secondly, peace with ourselves, or peace of conscience. Thirdly, peace with one another, or peace of love and unity. Fourthly, peace with the other creatures, even the most hurtful, which may be called a peace of indemnity and service. Christian in Complete Armour
Indeed, few or none will speak against learning but those that have not so much of it as to make them understand its use. I dare not bid ministers, as some fanatics have done, burn all their books but the Bible. No, but I would exhort them to prefer it above all their other books and to direct all their other studies to furnish them with Scripture knowledge; as the bee that flies over the whole garden and brings all the honey she gets from every flower therein into her hive, so should the minister run over all his other books and reduce their notions for his help in this, as the Israelites offered up the jewels and earrings borrowed of the Egyptians to the service of the tabernacle.
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