It is more to the honor of a Christian by faith to overcome the world, than by monastical vows to retreat from it; more for the honor of Christ to serve him in the city, than to serve him in the cell.
The treasures of wisdom are hidden not from us, but for us, in Christ.
The workman made it, therefore it is not God. To represent an infinite Spirit by an image, and the great Creator by the image of a creature, is the greatest affront we can put upon God and the greatest cheat we can put upon ourselves. As.
God will always have a church on earth; but he never said it should be infallible, or perfectly pure from corruption on this side heaven.
Note, Those who go about to mock God do but deceive themselves. Hypocrisy in religion is the greatest folly as well as wickedness, since the God we have to do with can easily see through all our disguises, and will certainly deal with us hereafter, not according to our professions, but our practices.
All the disciples and followers of the Lord Jesus must be nonconformists to this world.
Marriage is not an invention of men, but a divine institution, and.
Skill in secular employments is God’s gift, and comes from above, Jam. 1:17.
The greater the privileges we enjoy the greater is our danger if we do not improve them and live up to them.
When the Spirit of the Lord comes upon men it will make them expert even without experience.
All the benefit of our religious services is lost if we do not improve them, and conduct ourselves aright afterwards.
A Christian makes his body a sacrifice to God, though he does not give it to be burned.
All Christians must be saints; and, if they come not under that character on earth, they will never be saints in glory.
The loser is here supposed to be a woman, who will more passionately grieve for her loss, and rejoice in finding what she had lost, than perhaps a man would do, and therefore it the better serves the purpose of the parable. She.
God’s servants must think nothing below them but sin.
The glory of God is his own end, and it should be ours in all that we do.
Those that will not regard good ministers’ preaching cannot expect any benefit by their praying. If you will not hear us when we speak from God to you, God will not hear us when we speak to him for you.
This silver was lost in the dirt; a soul plunged in the world, and overwhelmed with the love of it and care about it, is like a piece of money in the dirt; any one would say, It is a thousand pities that it should lie there.
The best use we can make of our worldly wealth is to honour God with it in works of piety and charity.
Christianity is the salt of the earth.
Holy love to God is the fire by which all our offerings must be made; else they are not of a sweet savour to God.