Feb 28, 2019
"We are too often in haste to sin; O that we may be in a greater hurry to obey...To be slow to keep the commands is really to break them. There is much evil in a lagging pace when God's command is to be followed...Many are zealots to obey custom and society, and yet they are slack in serving God. It is a crying shame...
Feb 15, 2019
"Whatever others do, this I will do; though I be singular, though all about me be evil-doers, and desert me; Whatever I have done hitherto, I will for the future walk closely with God. They are the commandments of God, of my God, and therefore I will keep them. He is God and may command me, my God, and will command...
Feb 9, 2019
"It is the mark of a growing Christian that in his view Christ increases; the mark of a great Christian that to him Christ is very great. Augustine, Bernard, Leighton, Rutherford, Owen, Martyn - were these great Christians? And what had they in common? Large and admiring thoughts of Christ...A great Christian is one to...
Feb 2, 2019
"The peril of the godly life is drifting into ease and indifference; the doing of religious duties as mere routine; the meeting of religious obligations listlessly and without heart...We must not rest without energy and activity in the religious life. A formal obedience should be as distressing to us as it is to God." (The...