The presence of people serves as a restraint against the commission of many sins, and if the presence of God does not accomplish the same, one reveals himself as having more respect for people than for the Majestic and holy God.
—Wilhelmus à Brakel, Reasonable Service, 1:96
"[…]if any of you sin against the light, your sin will be all the more gross and aggravated." - Charles Spurgeon
"Sin within will ruin even if it be not seen in the act." — Charles Spurgeon
"How can a man believe in hell unless he throws away his life to rescue others from its torment?" -C.T.Studd.
The love which constitutes true thankfulness is glorious.
Jonathan Edwards
Can a small bottle contain an entire ocean? How then can a finite being comprehend an infinite Being? —
Wilhelmus à Brakel, The Christian’s Reasonable Service, 1:137
Agreeing or disagreeing with the Bible does not affect its truth.
"Pray for the fallen, look lovingly and pitifully upon the fallen; for your very look may do them good." - Charles Spurgeon
"In our sorrows, God's Word is our delight. In our difficulties, it is our guide." —
Charles Spurgeon
"As fast and as far as one knows the truth, he ought to obey it. That is the way to learn other truths." -Ichabod Spencer.
All such as having a discerning of spiritual beauties and excellencies will delight in praising God.
Jonathan Edwards
Continue to practice your devotions habitually ... Do not neglect this and do it to the best of your ability. Read the Word, even if you neither have the least desire to do so. —
Wilhelmus à Brakel (1635-1711)
"Study the Bible with diligence. Never be satisfied with a secondhand version of it." —
Charles Spurgeon
"God forbid that I should ever travel with anybody a quarter of an hour without speaking of Christ to them." -George Whitefield.
"If Peter had felt himself to be weaker, he would really have been stronger; but, because he felt so strong in himself, therefore he proved to be weak as water, and so denied his Master." - Charles Spurgeon
If I am not today all that I hope to be, yet I see Jesus, and that assures me that I shall one day be like Him. -Charles Spurgeon
By faith, the saints overcome the temptations of the world and the men of the world.
Jonathan Edwards
"I can tell how much God you have by how much entertainment you need."
-A.W.Tozer
Poor knowledge of Scripture results in poor use of Scripture.
In years past they gave all they had - even the blood out of their veins - to purchase a few pages of [Scripture]. Either these people were fools to pay so high price for this knowledge or you are greater fools to refuse it when it is so readily obtainable. —William Gurnall
"If any of you were once professors of the faith, and you have turned aside through the evil associations that you have formed, cut yourselves loose from those associations at once." - Charles Spurgeon
“Family worship is beyond measure important both for the present and succeeding generations.” — Charles Spurgeon
The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything. -
Charles Spurgeon
Counseling that offers no word from God will parch, starve, mislead, and ultimately kill the very people it tries hard to help. – David Powlison
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