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Besides public ordinances, we should give ourselves to spiritual exercises in secret.
All the time we can spare from our necessary, civil, and natural actions should be employed in calling to mind what we have seen, heard, or felt of God.
Time, Free Time0We are continually thinking of whatsoever we love.
Love causes the soul to be more where it loves than where it lives.
Works 7:479Thinking, Love0Works 7:479
A child of God findeth a greater treasure in one chapter of the Bible than worldly men in all their lands and honours and large revenues.
Scripture, Treasure0You can never part with sin soon enough; it is a cursed inmate, that will surely bring mischief upon the soul that harbours it. It will set its own dwelling on fire.
Works 7:147Sin0Works 7:147
God will have nothing to do with proud persons, he will never dwell with them, he will never keep house with them.
He that dwells in the highest heavens, will never dwell in a haughty heart.
Pride04 Types of Pride: first is when someone attributes to himself the good which he has; the second, when he believes that the good is given by God, and yet for his own merits; the third, when he boasts that he has what he does not have; the fourth, when he has contempt for all others and wishes to seem unique.
Moralia, bk 2, c6, n13Pride0Moralia, bk 2, c6, n13
The church is live a river. If it gets wider instead of deeper it will lose its power.
Church0Pride has its root and strength in a spiritual power, outside of us as well as within us; as needful as it is that we confess and deplore it, it is satanic in origin.
HumilityPride0Humility
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
Pride0God gave the Spirit to the rest of the apostles, but he gave the purse to the son of perdition.
Money, Holy Spirit0What a man delights in he will be talking of.
Works 7:476Discussion, Talk0Works 7:476
The whole work of sanctification, from its first step to its last period, is all of grace, all must be ascribed to God's free goodness.
Sanctification, Grace0To own and stand up for a hated and despised truth will bring more comfort to our souls than all the pleasure the wicked have in their sensual delights.
Delight, Soul, Truth0The devil seeks to weaken our opinion of God's goodness.
God's Goodness, Satan0To humble us in our converses with God. He is good, but we are evil; he is heaven, but we are hell; he is perfect, but we are poor defective creatures. Therefore in all our approaches to him we should come the more humbly to him, and go the more holy from him; for it is sad when we come to the good God, and are never the better. If we go to the fire, we expect to be warm. Oh! when you come to the fountain of goodness, we should come away better.
https://www.monergism.com/rich-young-ruler-exposition-mark-1017-27-ebookHumility, God's Goodness0As the excellency of his nature giveth him a fitness and a sufficiency for the government of mankind, his creation, preservation, and other benefits give him a full right to make what laws he pleaseth, and to call man to an account whether he hath kept them, yea or no.
Works, Volume 10The Law, Obedience0Works, Volume 10
The more a man delighteth in God, and in the ways of God, the more he cleaveth to Him, and resolveth to go on in this course, and temptations to sensual delights do less prevail.
Delight, Temptation, Lust, Enjoying God0Men are ready to anger, slow to mercy, quickly enflamed, and hardly appeased; but it is quite contrary with God.
Anger, Mercy0There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.
Commentary on Luke 24:45Pride0Commentary on Luke 24:45
Good God, whither is man fallen! First, we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it. Sin is first our burden, then our custom, then our delight, then our excellency!
Sin0Though we cannot be altogether without sin, yet we must not altogether leave off to resist sin. Sin reigns where it is not resisted.
Sin0It is usual in providence that they who have God's heart should feel God's hand most heavy. I have observed it, that God's children never question His love so much as in sickness. Our thoughts return upon us in such retirement, and the weakness of the body discomposes the mind and deprives us of the free exercise of spiritual reason; to sense and feeling all is sharp.
Sickness0Jewels do not lie upon the surface; you must get into the caverns and dark receptacles of the earth for them. No more do truths lie in the surface and outside of an expression. The beauty and glory of the Scriptures is within and must be fetched out with much study and prayer.
Scripture0The unsoundness of a vessel is not seen when it is empty, but when it is filled with water, then we shall see whether it will leak or not.
Prosperity, Riches1Pride is intolerable to pride.
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