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Judas called Christ Lord, Lord; and yet betrayed him, and has gone to his place. Ah! how many Judases have we in these days, that kiss Christ, and yet betray Christ; that in their words profess him – but in their works deny him; that bow their knee to him, and yet in their hearts despise him; that call him Jesus, and yet will not obey him for their Lord

God is most angry when he shows no anger. God keep us from this mercy. This kind of mercy is worse than all other kind of misery.

Pirates do not use to set upon poor empty vessels; and beggars need not fear the thief. Those that have most of God, and are most rich in grace – shall be most assaulted by Satan, who is the greatest and craftiest pirate in the world

A poisonous pill is never a whit the less poisonous because it is gilded over with gold; nor a wolf is never a whit the less a wolf because he has put on a sheep’s skin; nor the devil is never a whit the less a devil because he appears sometimes like an angel of light. So neither is sin any whit the less filthy and abominable by its being painted over with virtue’s colors

To live without fear of death – is to die living!

Afflictions are but as a dark entry into our Father’s house

The giving way to a less sin makes way for the committing of a greater.

The moment we give into temptation, Satan immediately changes his strategy and becomes the accuser. Thomas Brooks

What labor and pains worldlings take to obtain the vain things of this life-to obtain the poor things of this world, which are but shadows and dreams, and mere nothings!

Every man obeys Christ as he prizes Christ, not otherwise

The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world

What is honor, and riches, and the favor of creatures – so long as I lack the favor of God, the pardon of my sins, a saving interest in Christ, and the hope of glory! O Lord, give me these, or I die! Give me these, or else I shall eternally die!

Consider that spiritual safety comes through spiritual unity. Christians united together are difficult to separate, difficult to break, difficult to pick off and destroy. It is when you isolate yourself by disrupting or denying unity that you are most at risk

A little hole in the ship sinks it. A small breach in a dyke carries away all before it. A little stab at the heart kills a man. A little sin, without a great deal of mercy, will damn a man!

Though there is nothing more dangerous, yet there is nothing more ordinary, than for weak saints to make their sense and feeling the judge of their condition. We must strive to walk by faith

Sin is bad in the eye, worse in the tongue, worse still in the heart, but worst of all in the life.

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.

Many eat that on earth that they digest in hell

Faith is the champion of Grace, and Love the nurse; but Humility is the beauty of Grace

There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against

There is no little sin, because no little God to sin against

Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins

Ah, believer, it is only Heaven that is above all winds, storms, and tempests; God did not cast man out of Paradise that he might find another paradise in this world

It is not the bee’s touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.

A gracious soul may look through the darkest cloud and see God smiling on him

In a storm there is no shelter like the wings of God

He that will play with Satan’s bait, will quickly be taken with Satan’s hook

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

Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment

How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns!

Better to bear than to swear, and to die than to lie

A good conscience and a good confidence go together

Solomon got more hurt by his wealth, than he got good by his wisdom

It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin

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

Get Christ and get all; miss Christ and miss all

There are no souls in the world that are so fearful to judge others as those that do most judge themselves, nor so careful to make a righteous judgment of men or things as those that are most careful to judge themselves.

When God’s hand is on thy back, let thy hand be on thy mouth, for though the affliction be sharp it shall be but short

As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing

Humility makes a man richer than other men, and it makes a man judge himself the poorest among men.

He that hath deserved hanging may be glad to escape with a whipping.

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

A man had need to fear this most of all that he fears not at all

Remember this-all the sighing, mourning, sobbing, and complaining in the world, does not so undeniably evidence a man to be humble, as his overlooking his own righteousness, and living really and purely upon the righteousness of Christ

That sorrow for sin that keeps the soul from looking towards the mercy seat is a sinful sorrow

The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low.

Sin is hell, grace is heaven; what madness it is to look more at hell than heaven

An humble soul looks upon Christ’s righteousness as his only crown

If you would have a clear evidence that little love, that little faith, that little zeal, you have is true? Then live up to that love, live up to that faith, live up to that zeal that you have; and this will be evidence beyond all contradiction

If any man should ask me what is the first, second, and third part of being a Christian, I must answer ‘Action!

Cold prayers shall never have any warm answers

Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward.

God hears no more than the heart speaks; and if the heart be dumb, God will certainly be deaf.

The only ground of God’s love is his love

Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns

There is more evil in the least sin than in the greatest affliction

Grace is given to trade with; it is given to lay out, not lay up

The greatest and the hottest fires that ever were on earth are but ice in comparison to the fire of hell.

Secret sins commonly lie nearest the heart

When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes

The least sin should humble the soul, but certainly the greatest sin should never discourage the soul, much less should it work the soul to despair. Despairing Judas perished, whereas the murderers of Christ, believing on Him, were saved.

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

Much faith will yield unto us here our heaven, but any faith, if true, will yield us heaven hereafter

Sin may rebel, but it shall never reign in any saint

Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls

Mercy is God’s Alpha, justice is His Omega

Humility can weep over other men’s weaknesses, and joy and rejoice over their graces

An implicit confession is almost as bad as an implicit faith; wicked men commonly confess their sins by wholesale, We are all sinners; but the true penitent confesses his sins by retail

There is the seed of all sins – of the vilest and worst of sins – in the best of men.

Those years, months, weeks, days, and hours, that are not filled up with God, with Christ, with grace, and with duty, will certainly be filled up with vanity and folly. The neglect of one day, of one duty, of one hour, would undo us, if we had not an Advocate with the Father

The world and you must part, or Christ and you will never meet

Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.

A man’s most glorious actions will at last be found to be but glorious sins, if he hath made himself, and not the glory of God, the end of those actions

Every twinkling of light is light; every drop of water is water; every spark of fire is fire; every drop of honey is honey. So every drop of grace is grace;

Every thing that a man leans upon but God, will be a dart that will certainly pierce his heart through and through. He who leans only upon Christ, lives the highest, choicest, safest, and sweetest life

A well-grounded assurance is always attended with three fair handmaids: love, humility and holy joy

As heat is opposed to cold, and light to darkness, so grace is opposed to sin. Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart

He that puts on a religious habit abroad to gain himself a great name among men, and at the same time lives like an atheist at home, shall at the last be uncovered by God and presented before all the world for a most outrageous hypocrite

Those sins that seem most sweet in life, will prove most bitter in death

Christ is the sun, and all the watches of our lives should be set by the dial of his motion.

Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth.

It is better to have a sore than a seared conscience

We trust as we love, and where we love. If we love Christ much, surely we shall trust him much

Though our private desires are ever so confused, though our private requests are ever so broken, and though our private groanings are ever so hidden from men, yet God eyes them, records them, and puts them upon the file of heaven, and will one day crown them with glorious answers and returns

Preach the gospel to yourself, because as you consider who you are in light of God’s perfect goodness, holiness and peace, you must soften toward others

The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven.

God is as just as he is merciful.

A Christian will part with anything rather than his hope; he knows that hope will keep the heart both from aching and breaking, from fainting and sinking; he knows that hope is a beam of God, a spark of glory, and that nothing shall extinguish it till the soul be filled with glory

True repentance includes sorrow for sin and contrition of heart. It breaks the heart with sighs and sobs and groans.

God sees us in secret, therefore, let, us seek his face in secret. Though heaven be God’s palace, yet it is not his prison

Look, as a painted man is no man, and as painted fire is no fire, so a cold prayer is no prayer

Consider that the trials and troubles, the calamities and miseries, the crosses and losses that you meet with in this world, are all the hell that ever you shall have

Sin in a wicked man is like poison in a serpent; it is in its natural place

The first step toward heaven, is to see ourselves near hell

There are three things that earthly riches can never do; they can never satisfy divine justice, they can never pacify divine wrath, nor can they every quiet a guilty conscience. And till these things are done man is undone

If God were not my friend, Satan would not be so much my enemy

Christ is lovely, Christ is very lovely, Christ is most lovely, Christ is always lovely, Christ is altogether lovely

Man’s holiness is now his greatest happiness, and in heaven man’s greatest happiness will be his perfect holiness

An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction

The lazy Christian has his mouth full of complaints, when the active Christian has his heart full of comforts

Though true repentance is never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true

Repentance is the vomit of the soul

Let those be thy choicest companions who have made Christ their chief companion

Prayer is nothing but the breathing that out before the Lord, that was first breathed into us by the Spirit of the Lord

To repent of sin is as great a mark of grace as not to sin

He is the best preacher, not that tickles the ear, but that breaks the heart

Weak Christians are afraid of the shadow of the cross

Truth is mighty and will prevail.

Satan paints sin with virtues colors

The power of religion and godliness lives, thrives, or dies, as closet prayer lives, thrives, or dies. Godliness never rises to a higher pitch than when men keep closest to their closets, etc

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

The sovereignty of God is that golden sceptre in his hand by which he will make all bow, either by his word or by his works, by his mercies or by his judgements

He who stands upon his own strength will never stand

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

A man full of hope will be full of action

God hath in Himself all power to defend you, all wisdom to direct you, all mercy to pardon you, all grace to enrich you, all righteousness to clothe you, all goodness to supply you, and all happiness to crown you

Satan promises the best, but pays with the worst; he promises honor, and pays with disgrace; he promises pleasure, and pays with pain; he promises profit, and pays with loss, he promises life, and pays with death. But God pays as he promises; all his payments are made in pure gold

Hope can see heaven through the thickest clouds

God looks not at the oratory of your prayers, how elegant they may be; nor at the geometry of your prayers, how long they may be; nor at the arithmetic of your prayers, how many they may be; not at logic of your prayers, how methodical they may be; but the sincerity of them he looks at

Your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all.

Grace and glory differ very little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant, glory is grace triumphant

A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven

Prayer crowns God with the honor and glory due to His name, and God crowns prayer with assurance and comfort. The most praying souls are the most assured souls