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The more vile we are in our own eyes, the more precious Christ will be to us!
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How unspeakably wonderful it is, to know that all our concerns are held in those hands which bled for us!
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Our sea may sometimes be stormy--but we have an infallible Pilot, and shall infallibly gain our port.
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Our work is great,
our time is short, and
the consequences of our labors are infinite!
"Hold me up, and I will be safe!" Psalm 119:117
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My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken heart.
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I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ, and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master.
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We serve a gracious Master, who will overrule even our mistakes to His glory and our own advantage.
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Can we wish, if it were possible, to walk in a path strewed with flowers--when His path was strewed with thorns?
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May we sit at the foot of the cross, and there learn . . .
what sin has done,
what justice has done,
what love has done.
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Healing and wounding are equally from His hand, and equally tokens of His love and care over us.
~ ~ ~ ~They are the happiest Christians, who have the lowest thoughts of themselves; and in whose eyes, Jesus is most glorious and precious!
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My heart is vile, and even my prayers are sin.
My soul is very sick, but my Physician is infallible!
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Lord, save us from our golden calves!
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The Lord Jesus, and the world that crucified Him--are competitors for our hearts.
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The storms of our life are guided by the hands which were nailed to the cross!
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We have work to do in the world, more to do in the Church and in our homes--but most of all, in our own hearts!
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Wonderful are the effects when a crucified, glorious Savior is presented to the eye of faith. This sight destroys the love of sin!
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Abominations, like nests of vipers, lie quietly in us--until the rod of affliction arouses them. Then they hiss and show their venom! This discovery is indeed very distressing; yet, until it is made, we are prone to think ourselves much less vile than we really are, and cannot so heartily abhor ourselves, and repent in dust and ashes.
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A deep sense of indwelling sin is essential to humble living.
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I have reason to praise Him for my trials, for most probably I would have been ruined without them!
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To see Him as He is, and to be like Him--this is worth dying for, and worth living for.
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People do their country more service by pleading for it in prayer, than by finding fault with things they have no power to alter.
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Prosperity may cause us to rise in the world, but affliction is needful to raise us above the world.
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The babe of Bethlehem, the man who once hung dead and forsaken upon the cross--is now the Lord of glory!
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I have read of many wicked popes, but the worst pope I ever met with is pope self.
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Humility is the strength and ornament of every other grace, and the proper soil wherein they grow.
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To behold the glory and the love of Jesus, is the only effectual way to be conformed to His image!
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Resist every temptation to doubt Christ's love, as you would resist a temptation to adultery or murder!