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“now why is the devil's money accepted, the world's offer embraced, and God's rejected? Truly, men do not know the worth of what God offers them. The money the devil and the world offer is in their own currency, and is familiar to them. Swine trample on pearls, because they do not know their value. Men prefer the poor things they have because they are in their current possession. The devil seeks to peck out the eyes of men, that they do not see the blessed God and the happiness that is to be enjoyed in him. O how dull is the world's glass in the presence of true crystal! The magnet of earth will not draw man's affections while heaven is visible. He that has fed on the heavenly banquet cannot savor anything else.”
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“There are depths in His word where elephants can swim and there are also shallows where lambs can wade.”
― The Blessed and Boundless God
― The Blessed and Boundless God
“The Christian's meekness must be mixed with wisdom. The apostle calls it meekness of wisdom; meekness opposes the fury in our own quarrel, not zeal in God's cause. The same Spirit that appeared in the form of a dove appeared also in the form of fiery tongues. It may be my duty to be silent when I am wronged, but it is sinful not to speak when God is reproached...It is a singular mark of a saint to be wet tinder when men strike fire at himself, and touchwood when men strike at God. The meekest man upon the face of the earth was the fullest of fury in the cause of heaven (Exodus 32; Numbers 12:2).”
― The Christian Man's Calling
― The Christian Man's Calling
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