Death is the last and best physician, which cures all diseases and sins - the aching head and the unbelieving heart. Sin was the midwife which brought death into the world; and death shall be the grave to bury sin! O the privilege of a believer! Topics: Death Source: The Christian's Charter. |
Let them fear death who do not fear sin. Topics: Death, Sin Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury |
God sometimes in infinite patience adjourns his judgments and puts off the sessions a while longer, he is not willing to punish. Topics: Discipline |
God being a Father, if He hide His face from His child, it is in love. Desertion is sad in itself, a short hell (Job 6:9). When the light is withdrawn, dew falls. Yet we may see a rainbow in the cloud, the love of a Father in all this. Topics: Discipline Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury |
Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise. Topics: Eternity |
Faith holds the promise in one hand, and Christ in the other. Topics: Faith |
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Faith is seated in the understanding, as well as the will. It has an eye to see Christ, as well as a wing to fly to Christ. Topics: Faith Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury |
Faith is full of good works. It believes as if it did not work, and it works as if it did not believe. Topics: Faith Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury |
Meditation doth discriminate and characterise a man; by this he may take a measure of his heart, whether it be good or bad; let me allude to that; "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he." Proverbs 23:7. As the meditation is, such is the man. Meditation is the touchstone of a Christian; it shows what metal he is made of. It is a spiritual index; the index shows what is in the book, so meditation shows what is in the heart. Topics: Fire Source: Saints' Spiritual Delight. |
What fools are they who, for a drop of pleasure, drink a sea of wrath. Topics: Foolishness |
Wherever God pardons sin, he subdues it... If the fetters of sin be broken off, and we walk at liberty in the ways of God, this is a blessed sign we are pardoned. Topics: Forgiveness, Liberty |
Every pardon a sinner hath is written in Christ's blood. Topics: Forgiveness Source: The Christian's Charter |