Satan well knows that success can only attend order and harmonious action. He well knows that every thing connected with Heaven is in perfect order.
Music is made one of Satan’s most attractive agencies to ensnare souls; but, when turned to a good account, it is a blessing. When abused, it leads the unconsecrated to pride, vanity, and folly.
Who can measure the love Christ felt for a lost world, as he hung upon the cross, suffering for the sins of guilty men? This love was immeasurable. It was infinite.
Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you.
It is right to love beauty and to desire it; but God desires us to love and seek first the highest beauty, that which is imperishable. No outward adorning can compare in value or loveliness with that “meek and quiet spirit.”
God requires you individually to come up to the point, to make an entire surrender. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
The Bible is our rule of faith and doctrine.
Every man who praises himself brushes the luster from his best efforts.
There is one straight chain of truth without one heretical sentence in that which I have written.
We should strive to understand the weakness of others.
The righteousness by which we are justified is imputed; the righteousness by which we are sanctified is imparted. The first is our title to heaven, the second is our fitness for heaven.
The life of Christ was a life of humble simplicity, yet how infinitely exalted was his mission. Christ is our example in all things.
Many are to believe on Christ through the communication of truth by His servants. As they see the beauty of the Word of God, and as they see Jesus revealed in the lives of His children, they will praise Him with heart and soul and voice.
In the prayer of faith there is a divine science; it is a science that everyone who would make his lifework a success must understand.
Gather every promise. This is Jesus, the life of every grace, the life of every promise, the life of every ordinance, the life of every blessing.
I desired to become a Christian, and prayed earnestly for the forgiveness of my sins. I felt a peace of mind resulting, and loved every one, feeling desirous that all should have their sins forgiven, and love Jesus as I did.
It is the chief joy of all holy beings to witness the joy and happiness of those around them.
The masses will reject any theory, however reasonable it may be, if it lays a restriction upon the appetite.
If Christians will obey the instructions given to them by Christ and his inspired apostles, they will adorn the religion of the Bible, and save themselves much perplexity and severe trials, which they attribute to their afflictions in consequence of believing unpopular truth.
God has set up a high standard of righteousness. He has made plain a distinction between human and divine wisdom. All who work on Christ’s side must work to save, not to destroy.