15 quotes found
“Many eat that on earth that they digest in hell.”
“There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against.”
“Adversity hath slain her thousand, but prosperity her ten thousand.”
“Humility can weep over other men's weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces.”
“Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.”
“Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.”
“If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation? If your light and knowledge be not turned into practice, the more knowing ...”
“Preach the gospel to yourself, because as you consider who you are in light of God's perfect goodness, holiness and peace, you must soften toward others.”
“[I]t is not hasty reading--but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bees touching of the flower, which gathers hone...”
“ It was a precept of Pythagoras, that when we enter into the temple to worship God , we must not so much as speak or think of any worldly business, lest we make God's service an idle ,perfunctory, ...”
“There are no souls in the world that are so fearful to judge others as those that do most judge themselves, nor so careful to make a righteous judgment of men or things as those that are most caref...”
“The best course to prevent falling into the pit is to keep at the greatest distance from it; he who will be so bold as to attempt to dance upon the brink of the pit, may find by woeful experience t...”
“#1. Spend more time considering evidences of grace in other Christians than you do pondering their sins and weaknesses. You, as a Christian, probably have a much greater ability to see weakness in ...”
“The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others the best way to gather is to scatter.”
“It was a precept of Pythagoras, that when we enter into the temple to worship God , we must not so much as speak or think of any worldly business, lest we make God's service an idle ,perfunctory, a...”
