Without holiness on earth we shall never be prepared to enjoy heaven. Heaven is a holy place. The Lord of heaven is a holy Being. The angels are holy creatures. Holiness is written on everything in heaven... How shall we ever be at home and happy in heaven if we die unholy?
We may love money without having it, just as we may have money without loving it.
Doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse than useless; it does positive harm. Something of 'the image of Christ' must be seen and observed by others in our private life, and habits, and character, and doings.
Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God.
What would you expect? Sin will not come to you saying, 'I am sin.' It would do little harm if it did. Sin always seems 'good, pleasant and desirable' at the time of arrival.
Prayer will consume sin, or sin will choke prayer.
Christ's death is the Christian's life. Christ's cross is the Christian's title to heaven. Christ "lifted up" and put to shame on Calvary is the ladder by which Christians "enter into the holiest," and are at length landed in glory.
Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.
We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.
Meekness is one of the brightest graces which can adorn the Christian character.
Oh, dear friend, if you love your children, I charge you, do not let the early impression of a habit of prayer slip by. If you train your children to do anything, train them, at least, to have a habit of prayer.
Instruction, and advice, and commands will profit little, unless they are backed up by the pattern of your own life. Your children will never believe you are in earnest, and really wish them to obey you, so long as your actions contradict your counsel... Think not your children will practise what they do not see you do. You are their model picture, and they will copy what you are... will seldom learn habits which they see you despise, or walk in paths in which you do not walk yourself.
True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience.
People are backsliders on their knees long before they backslide openly in the eyes of the world.
Make it a part of every day's business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Private means of grace are just as needful every day for our souls as food and clothing are for our bodies.
Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.
I declare I know no state of soul more dangerous than to imagine we are born again and sanctified by the Holy Ghost, because we have picked up a few religious feelings.
Do something, by God’s help, to make heaven more full and hell more empty.
Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord...He waits quietly for the King.
Doubting does not prove that a man has no faith, but only that his faith is small. And even when our faith is small, the Lord is ready to help us.
Good hymns are an immense blessing to the Church. They train people for heaven, where praise is one of the principal occupations.
God has linked holiness and happiness; and what God has joined together we must not think to put asunder.
I want people to fill their minds with passages of Scripture while they are well and strong, that they may have sure help in the day of need. I want them to be diligent in studying their Bibles, and becoming familiar with its contents, in order that the grand old Book may stand by them and talk with them when all earthly friends fail.
The true Christian does not need to be reminded that he has a crucified Master. He often thinks of Him.
The very sermon that we needlessly miss, may contain a precious word in season for our souls.
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