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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.
Avoid trivial pursuits. You are a child of God, destined for glory, and called to do great things in His Name. Do not waste your life on hobbies, sports, and other recreational pursuits. Do not throw away the precious moments of your life on entertainment, movies, and video games. Though some of these things can properly have a 'small place' in the Christian's life, we must be careful not to give undue attention to temporal and fruitless activities. Do not waste your life. Employ the time of your youth in developing the character and skills necessary to be a useful servant of God.
Instead of consuming their leisure hours in vacant idleness, or deriving their chief amusement from boisterous merriment, the recital of tales of superstition, or the chanting of the profane songs of the heathen, they passed their hours of repose in rational and enlivening pursuits; found pleasure in enlarging their religious knowledge, and entertainment in songs that were dedicated to the praise of God.The Antiquities of the Christian Church
A few minutes' folly may ruin years of character.
The saint is many times most busy when he hath nothing to do, and may say more truly than Scipio the African, Nunquam minus solus, quam cum solus, I am never less alone than when alone.
Our life on earth is under the constant strict observation of our Lord Christ. He waits when to turn the key, and shut it up. Through the whole of that time, which, by deferring, he measures out to us, we are under his eye as in a state of probation.Works, Vol 1
It is impossible to be submissive and religiously patient, if ye stay your thoughts down among the confused rollings and wheels of second causes, as O, the place! O, the time! O, if this had been, this had not followed! O, the linking of this accident with this time and place! Look up to the master motion and the first wheelThe Loveliness of Christ
Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons away; They fly forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day
Use your youth! The years fly by with swift feet and later years are rarely as wonderful as the earlier.
Think not God's time too long. He waits as much for a fit opportunity to share his mercy, as you can wait for the enjoyment of it: Isa. 30:18. Works i:118
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He is not a covetous man who lays up something providentially, but he is a covetous man who gives out nothing willingly. He is as prudent a man who sometimes distributes discreetly as he who accumulates hastily. Men frequently discover more wisdom in laying out than in laying up. Reader, the hope of living long on earth should not make you covetous, but the prospect of living long in heaven should make you bounteous. Though the sun of charity rise at home, yet it should always set abroad.
There are in our age a generation of people who are the best of prophets and worst of historians; Daniel and the Revelation are as easy to them as the Ten Commandments and the Lord's Prayer. They pretend exactly to know the time of Christ's actual reign on earth; of the ruin of the Romish antichrist; yea, of the day of judgment itself. But these oracles are struck quite dumb if demanded anything concerning the time past: about the coming of the children of Israel out of Egypt and Babylon, the original increase and ruin of the four monarchies. Of these and the like they can give no more account than the child in the cradle. They are all for things to come, but have gotten (through a great cold of ignorance) such a crick in their neck, they cannot look backward on what was behind them.
Suppose a bird was to come once in a thousand years to some vast mountain of sand and carry away in her bill one sand in a thousand years. O what a vast time would it be ere this immortal bird, after that rate, had recovered the mountain, and yet in time this might be done, for there would be still some diminution. But in eternity there can be none. There be things in time which are not competent to eternity. In time there is a succession: one generation, year, and day passeth and another comes; but eternity is a fixed now. In time there is a diminution and wasting; the more is past, the less is to come. But it is not so in eternity.
Man's haste is often folly, but God's apparent delays are ever wise.
It is a solemn thing to part company with the old year. It is a still more solemn thing to begin a new one. It is like entering a dark passage: we know not what we may meet before the end.
A man should not spend more time in any pastime and recreations than in religious exercises
Who would not abhor that vanity of Nero, in shoeing his horses with precious gold, and causing that costly metal to be trampled under foot in the dirt, which was worthy to be the materials of a crown for the highest head on earth! Am not I a greater fool than the former, and more vain than the latter, if I spend that time- which is infinitely more costly than gold or Bezer, as having relation to eternity - wholly in worldly talk, which might be employed in declaring and admiring the boundless perfections of the blessed God
I wish that I may never spend my precious time amongst Christians, as the Athenians, who never understood the worth of that commodity, used to waste it, only in telling and hearing of news; but as Christ amongst his disciples, in discoursing of things pertaining to the kingdom of God.
We remember, also, how that it is becoming increasingly difficult in these strenuous days for those who are desirous of studying the deeper things of God to find the time which such study requires.
Though our persons fall, our cause shall be as truly, certainly, and infallibly victorious, as that Christ sits at the right hand of God. The gospel shall be victorious. This greatly comforts and refreshes me.
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