 God will fill the hungry because He Himself has stirred up the hunger. As in the case of prayer, when God prepares the heart to pray, He prepares His ear to hear (Ps. 10:17). So in the case of spiritual hunger, when God prepares the heart to hunger, He will prepare His hand to fill. Topics: Prayer |
| Make up your spiritual accounts daily; see how matters stand between God and your souls (Psalm 77:6). Often reckonings keep God and conscience friends. Do with your hearts as you do with your watches, wind them up every morning by prayer, and at night examine whether your hearts have gone true all that day, whether the wheels of your affections have moved swiftly toward heaven. Topics: Prayer, Holiness
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury |
| Prayer delights God's ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul. Topics: Prayer |
| By delay of repentance, sin strengthens, and the heart hardens. The longer ice freezeth, the harder it is to be broken. Topics: Rebellion
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury |
| Murmuring is the rising up of oneself against God. It sets oneself against God as if I am wiser than He. Topics: Rebellion |
| Religion is not a matter of chance, but of choice. Topics: Religion, Choices |
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| Religion will cost us the tears of repentance and the blood of persecution. Topics: Religion, Persecution
Source: The Beatitudes: Persecution |
| Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell. Topics: Repentance, Knowledge |
| Many think they repent when it is not the offense but the penalty that troubles them. Topics: Repentance
Source: The One Thing Necessary |
| If there is anything excellent, it is salvation; if there be anything necessary, it is working out salvation; if there be any tool to work with, tis holy fear. Topics: Salvation, Fear
Source: The One Thing Necessary |
| Adoption is a greater mercy than Adam had in paradise. Topics: Salvation |
| Satan tempts to sin gradually. As the husbandman digs about the root of a tree, and by degrees loosens it, and at last it falls. Satan steals by degrees into the heart: he is at first more modest. Topics: Satan, The Heart |
