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- No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.
- What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in nineteen cases out of twenty,…
- Two-thirds of all the strifes, quarrels, and lawsuits in the world arise from one simple cause-money.
- Pride comes from not knowing yourself and the world. The older you grow, and the more you see, the less reason you will find for…
- Laughter, ridicule, opposition and persecution are often the only reward which Christ’s followers get from the world.
- If you show me a man deliberately living an unholy and licentious life, and yet boasting that his sins are forgiven, I answer, 'He is…
- Value all books in proportion as they are agreeable to Scripture. Those that are nearest to it are the best, and those that are farthest…
- Just as the telescope and microscope show us that there is order and design in all the works of God’s hand, from the greatest planet…
- The minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man.
- Happy are they, who in the matter of marriage observe three rules. The first is to marry only in the Lord, and after prayer for…
- Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our…
- Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness.
- Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are…
- True repentance begins with KNOWLEDGE of sin. It goes on to work SORROW for sin. It leads to CONFESSION of sin before God. It shows…
- Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.
- By affliction Christ shows us our emptiness and weakness, draws us to the throne of grace, purifies our affections, weans us from the world, and…
- The cross is the foundation of the Bible: If you have not yet found out that Christ crucified is the foundation of the whole volume,…
- In Christ alone God’s rich provision of salvation for sinners is treasured up: by Christ alone God’s abundant mercies come down from heaven to earth.…
- There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
- Let us watch against pride in every shape - pride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride of our own goodness. Nothing is so likely to…
- The Christian who keeps their heart diligently in little things shall be kept from great falls.
- Death is a solemn event for everyone. It is the winding up of all earthly plans and expectations. It is a separation from all we…
- There is but one fountain of comfort for a man drawing near to his end, and that is the Bible. ...All comfort from any other…
- Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their "virtues" as others do from their sins.
- Hearken, my believing reader. What is the cause of your weakness? Is it not because the fountain of life is little used? Is it not…
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