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Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but His sufferings, that can testify for ou….
Satan often paints sin with virtue's colors..
An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction..
Christ is a most precious commodity, he is better than rubies or the most costly pearls; and we must part with our old gold, with our shining gold, o….
Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with pain; he promises pr….
He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart..
The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts..
A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven..
The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet..
In a storm there is no shelter like the wings of God..
God hath in Himself all power to defend you, all wisdom to direct you, all mercy to pardon you, all grace to enrich you, all righteousness to clothe ….
Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man, myself..
It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that….
Hope can see heaven through the thickest clouds..
God's hearing of our prayers doth not depend upon sanctification, but upon Christ's intercession; not upon what we are in ourselves, but what' we are….
God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they may be; nor at the arithmet….
Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most praying souls are the most ass….
The first step toward heaven, is to see ourselves near hell..
Christ dwells in that heart most eminently that hath emptied itself of itself..
Get Christ and get all; miss Christ and miss all..
Solomon got more hurt by his wealth, than he got good by his wisdom..