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Lord, let me find my life in thee, and not in the mire of this world's favour or gain.

Growing a beard is a habit most natural, Scriptural, manly and beneficial.

Prayer and praise are the oars by which a man may row his boat into the deep waters of the knowledge of Christ.

A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel.

If it were Christ's intention to save all men, how deplorably He has been disappointed!

Show me 12 drunkards and I will show you 12 nagging wives.

The right way usually lies between two extremes: it is the narrow channel between the rock and the whirlpool.

God is to be praised with the voice, and the heart should go therewith in holy exultation.

As sure as God puts His children in the furnace of affliction, He will be with them in it.

Free grace can go into the gutter, and bring up a jewel!

I would as soon pray to God with machinery as to sing to God with machinery.

God gave us sleep to remind us we are not him.

Not even in this world does sin pay its servants good wages.

Suffering times are a Christian's harvest time.

Suffering saints are living seed.

Praise is the Rehearsal of Our eternal Song By Grace We learn to Sing, and in Glory We Continue to Sing.

Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.

Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.

The worst sort of clever men are those who know better than the Bible.

Idleness is the key of beggary.

It is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you.

The greatest and most momentous fact which
the history of the world records is the fact of-Christ's birth.

Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.

This is the holy reasoning of love; it draws no license from grace, but rather feels the strong constraints of gratitude leading it to holiness.

Everything is a trifle to a man who is a Christian except the glorifying of Christ

To a hungry man, Christ is very lovely when He has a loaf of bread in His hand.

Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.

People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

Like Jonah, you may lose your gourd, but you cannot lose your God.

When joy and prayer are married, their first born child is gratitude.

A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

He is truly great in who hath power over himself.

That religion which costs a man nothing is usually worth nothing.

We cannot play at preaching. We preach for eternity.

Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.

Above all I commend the study of Christ. Let Him be your library.

Discernment is not a matter of telling the difference between right and wrong; rather it is telling the difference between right and almost right.

He who does not serve God where he is would not serve God anywhere else.

Our best performances are so stained with sin, that it is hard to know whether they are good works or bad works.

God has a way of giving by the cartloads to those who give away by shovelfuls.

It is wonderful how God works by our hands, and yet His own hand does it all.

Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

In 40 years I have not spent 15 minutes without thinking of Jesus.

The fact is, we sometimes read Scripture, thinking of what it ought to say, rather than what it does say.

It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time.

I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.

O What A Freedom Is Thine! Freedom from Condemnation. Freedom to the Promises, Freedom to the Throne of Grace, and at last Freedom to Enter Heaven!

Giving is true loving.

If I had my choice of all the blessings I can conceive of I would choose perfect conformity to the Lord Jesus, or, in one word, holiness.

He who is his own guide is guided by a fool.

The worst forms of depression are cured when Holy Scripture is believed.

Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.

That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.

It was God's word that made us; is it any wonder that His word should sustain us?

It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age.

This day, my God, I hate sin not because it damns me, but because it has done Thee wrong. To have grieved my God is the worst grief to me.

Feel for others - in your pocket

Out of every difficulty Omnipotence can bring us, only let us in childlike confidence cast our burden upon the Lord.

I do not believe there ever was a man who was his own master, but that every man has a master of some kind or other.

Our happy God should be worshiped by a happy people.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

Come my, heart, up and away!

To feel not only submitted but willing to be anything or nothing as the Lord wills it - this is, in truth, to sing a song to our Well Beloved.

My friends, it is one thing to go to church or chapel; it is quite another thing to go to God.

The Holy Spirit can cast out the evil spirit of the fear of man. He can make the coward brave.

In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

Right is right though all condemn, and wrong is wrong though all approve.

The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.

To be a soul winner is the happiest thing in the world. And with every soul you bring to Jesus Christ, you seem to get a new heaven here upon earth.

We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.

To me the Bible is not God, but it is God's voice, and I do not hear it without awe

A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow's supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.

God save us from living in comfort while sinners are sinking into hell!

If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.

Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble

The faith which saves is not one single act done on a certain day: it is an act continued and persevered in throughout the life of man.

A well marked Bible is the sign of a well-fed soul.

Home is the grandest of all institutions.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

All our perils are nothing, so long as we have prayer.

Defend the Bible? I would as soon defend a lion! Unchain it and it will defend itself.

Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.

There's no shame about any honest calling; don't be afraid of soiling your hands, there's plenty of soap to be had.

To be cast down is often the best thing that can happen to us.

God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

I believe that in public worship we should do well to be bound by no human rules, and constrained by no stereotyped order.

There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.

There may be some sins of which a man cannot speak,
but there is no sin which the blood of Christ cannot wash away.

Man's words are mere breath, but the word of the Lord is spirit and life.

Believing right doctrine will no more save you, than doing good works will save you.

Prayer is the thermometer of grace.

The grace of the spirit comes only from heaven, and lights up the whole bodily presence.

He is not humanity deified. He is not Godhead humanized. He is God. He is man. He is all that God is, and all that man is as God created Him.

I THINK the moments we are nearest to heaven are those we spend at the Lord's table.

Our great object of glorifying God is to be mainly achieved by the winning of souls Do not close a single sermon without addressing the ungodly.

Prayer is the lisping of the believing infant, the shout of the fighting believer, the requiem of the dying saint falling asleep in Jesus.

If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ.

We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes