If you want to do good to your neighbors and to bring them to Christ, set your own heart much upon the Savior.
The more of Christ a man has, the more useful he will be in his day.
If you were to look out all the useful ministers, you would not find that they were distinguished by great talent so much as by great grace.
God can bless a poor unsophisticated countryman to the salvation of hundreds if he has grace; and an ever-so-learned man may preach in vain, with great periods and stupendous sentences, if he has no grace.
Do you, then, seek to prove that promise—“I will be like the dew to Israel” (Hosea 14:5) and so doing, you will get this other promise fulfilled—“The people will return and live beneath his shade. They will grow grain and blossom like the vine. His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon”
(Hosea 14:7).
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