What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin.
Those prayers God likes best which come seething hot from the heart.
Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.
The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.
The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.
It is hard to carry a full cup without spilling, and a full estate without sinning.
First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it.
This kind of intense loyalty, then, became the well-spring of the IBM spirit, the family spirit as it was called.
There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction.
Prayer is the soul’s breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father.
There is justice in hell, but sin is the most unjust thing. It would rob God of his glory, Christ of his purchase, the soul of its happiness.
We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.
He may look on death with joy, who can look on forgiveness with faith.
God’s decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint’s perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so fast, that neither sin, death, nor hell, can break it asunder.
A man’s greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.
Are there not millions of us who would rather go sleeping to hell; than sweating to heaven?
The fastest way to succeed is to double your rate of failure.
Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.
The more we enjoy of God, the more we are ravished with delight.
Though we as Christians are like Christ, having the first fruits of the spirit, yet we are unlike him, having the remainders of the flesh.
When you find a chillness upon your souls, and that your former heat begins to abate, ply yourselves with warm clothes, get those good books that may acquaint you with such truths as may warm and affect your hearts.