We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.
Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated from the righteousness of God that he cannot conceive, desire, or design any thing but what is wicked, distorted, foul, impure, and iniquitous; that his heart is so thoroughly envenomed by sin that it can breathe out nothing but corruption and rottenness; that if some men occasionally make a show of goodness, their mind is ever interwoven with hypocrisy and deceit, their soul inwardly bound with the fetters of wickedness.
Prayer is the chief exercise of faith.
No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
The happiness promised us in Christ does not consist in outward advantages-such as leading a joyous and peaceful life, having rich possessions, being safe from all harm, and abounding with delights such as the flesh commonly longs after. No, our happiness belongs to the heavenly life!
When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.
By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man
My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.
The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.
We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.
We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.
We are surrounded by God’s benefits. The best use of these benefits is an unceasing expression of gratitude.
Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature: to love those who hate us, to repay their evil deeds with benefits, to return blessings for reproaches. It is that we remember not to consider men's evil intention but to look upon the image of God in them, which cancels and effaces their transgressions, and with its beauty and dignity allures us to love and embrace them.
We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.
Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time.
Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.
Faith is the evidence of divine adoption.
Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.
Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all.
That man is truly humble who neither claims any personal merit in the sight of God, nor proudly despises brethren, or aims at being thought superior to them, but reckons it enough that he is one of the members of Christ, and desires nothing more than that the Head alone should be exalted.
A man will be justified by faith when, excluded from righteousness of works, he by faith lays hold of the righteousness of Christ, and clothed in it, appears in the sight of God not as a sinner, but as righteous.
A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot
The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her motherly care, grow up to manhood in maturity of faith.
There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.
Unless God's Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray.
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