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Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father’s house.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns!
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has.
Attributed Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks (1860)
Though true repentance be never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.
Attributed Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks (1860)
It is not he who knows most, nor he who hears most, nor yet he who talks most, but he who exercises grace most, who has most communion with God.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers. God will suit His returns to our requests. Lifeless services shall have lifeless answers. When men are dull, God will be dumb.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory that are due to his name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. Usually, the most praying souls are the most assured souls.
Attributed Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks (1860)
Faith is a Christian's right eye, without which he cannot look for Christ; right hand, without which he cannot do for Christ; it is his tongue, without which he cannot speak for Christ; it is his vital spirit, without which he cannot act for Christ.
Attributed Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger. A man had need to fear this most of all, that he fears not at all.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
There is oftentimes a great deal of knowledge where there is but little wisdom to improve that knowledge. It is not the most knowing Christian but the most wise Christian that sees, avoids, and escapes Satan's snares. Knowledge without wisdom is like mettle in a blind horse, which is often an occasion of the rider's fall.
Attributed Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Nothing humbles and breaks the heart of a sinner like mercy and love. Souls that converse much with sin and wrath, may be much terrified; but souls that converse much with grace and mercy, will be much humbled.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but His sufferings, that can testify for our sins. Christ must pay all, or we are prisoners forever.
Attributed Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Such as have made a considerable improvement of their gifts and graces, have hearts as large as their heads; whereas most men's heads have outgrown their hearts.
Attributed Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks (1860)
Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the original of vices, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, turning medicines into maladies, and remedies into diseases.
Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
Mercy is "Alpha," justice is "Omega."
Attributed Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks (1860)
There is no way under heaven to be interested in Christ, but by believing. He that believeth shall be saved, let his sins, be ever so great; and he that believeth not shall be damned, let his sins be ever so little.
Attributed Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks (1860)
Christians, bear your faithful ministers upon your hearts when you are wrestling with God. They can tell when they want your prayers, and when they enjoy your prayers. Did you pray more for them, they might do more for your internal and eternal good than they do now.
Attributed Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks (1860)
One of Satan's devices to keep poor souls in a sad, doubting, and questioning condition is causing them to be always posing and musing upon sin; to mind their sins more than their Saviour: yea, so to mind their sins as to forget and neglect their Saviour. Their eyes are so fixed upon their disease that they cannot see their remedy, though it be near; and they do so muse upon their debts that they have neither mind nor heart to think of their surety.
Attributed Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The number of difficulties makes the Christian's conquest the more illustrious. A gracious man should be made up all of fire, overcoming and consuming all opposition, as fire does the stubble. All difficulties should be but whetstones to his fortitude. (pg.50, 1860 edition)
Attributed Smooth Stones Taken from Ancient Brooks (1860)