The longer your mind is set on earthly things, the more earthly minded you are likely to grow, and the more will your thoughts be entangled in earthly things.
When a person finds Jesus Christ, he is like one who has been travelling in a desert until he is almost consumed with thirst, and who at last finds a river of cool and clear water.
The more your body is sanctified, the more the appetites of it are subdued, the more its members are employed in the service of God, and the more will you have of God dwelling in you.
Take heed that you don’t depend on your own strength. When praying and reading, or whatever duty you engage in, let it be you with a sense of your own impotency. Don’t go forth in your own strength. Go to God with all your difficulties.
Many are kept from trusting in God, because they think they have committed so much sin that there is not mercy in God enough for them. He therefore must be sensible, that there is mercy enough, as well as power enough, to save the most vile returning sinner.
There must be a firm belief of God's merciful nature, and that he is willing to help us and do for us: a trusting in God is a trusting in his mercy and goodness.
There is none like him, who is infinite in glory and excellency: he is the most high God, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders: his name is excellent in all the earth, and his glory is above the earth and the heavens
There are those who think to make some atonement for their past sins, by their reformation and good behaviour in the future..
But this is the work of Christ Jesus. His greatest work is to make atonement for sin.
There is no trusting in God without a firm belief of the Word of God, and the revelation he has made concerning himself, especially his gracious promises.
In all our business and affairs let us go to God and consult him and make known our case to him and commit our way to him that he may direct our steps.
The more a person loves God, the less his heart is set on the things of the world, and so the less he feels the injuries that his enemies may inflict, because they cannot reach beyond these worldly things.
He can enlighten you, and guide you in the right way: though it be a great and terrible wilderness that you travel in, yet your God can lead you in the right way to Canaan.
He has been merciful and gracious to us exceedingly. We never did anything for him. Yet he loved us, and he has done great and wonderful things for us.
What can be a greater honor to a person than to have the eternal and most high God to be with him, to afford his gracious presence, to become his friend, to be united to him, to love him walking with him and in him, to be his temple?
When a poor lost soul is brought home to Christ, and has all his sins forgiven him, and is made a child of God, it will take up a whole eternity to express and declare the greatness of that love.
I am bold to say, that the work of God in the conversion of one soul.. is a more glorious work of God than the creation of the whole material universe: it is the most glorious of God's works, as it above all others manifests the glory of God.
When God pours out his Spirit on a people, he bestows on them the greatest mercy that ever is bestowed on any people. 'Tis the greatest blessing that they can receive.
The Scripture is very plain and evident in this, that those that are in Christ are actually in a state of salvation, and are justified, sanctified, accepted of Christ, and shall be saved.