The devil can counterfeit all the saving operations and graces of the Spirit of God.
If we make a great show of respect and love to God, in the outward actions, while there is no sincerity in the heart, it is but hypocrisy and practical lying unto the Holy One.
I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.
To live with all my might, while I do live.
The Spirit of God is given to the true saints to dwell in them as his proper lasting abode to dwell in them and to influence their hearts as a principle of new nature or as a divine supernatural spring of life and action.
Why should not He had made all things, still having something immediately to do with the things that He has made? Where lies the great difficulty, if we own the being of a God, that He created all things out of nothing, I’ll be allowing something immediate influence of God on creation still?
Among the many acts of gratitude we owe to God, it may be accounted one to study and contemplate the perfections and beauties of His work of creation. Every new discovery must necessarily raise in us a fresh sense of the greatness, wisdom, and power of God.
Resolved, never to do any manner of thing, whether in soul or body, less or more, but what tends to the glory of God; nor be, nor suffer it, if I can avoid it.
We are dependent on the power of God to convert us and give faith in Jesus Christ and the new nature.
If you long to be more like Christ, then act like Him, and walk as He walked.
Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men’s minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.
Find preachers of David Brainerd’s spirit, and nothing can stand before them. Let us be followers of him, as he was of Christ, in absolute self-devotion, in total deadness to the world, and in fervent love to God and man.
A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hardhearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.
We are dependent on God’s power through every step of our redemption.
And I say unto you, my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that, have no more that they can do. But I will forewarn you whom you shall fear: fear him, which after he hath killed, hath power to cast into hell: yea, I say unto you, Fear him.
Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action.
Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
Trust in God and ye need not fear.
Resolved, when I feel pain, to think of the pains of martyrdom, and of hell.