Josiah

“The worth and excellency of a soul is to be measured by the object of its love. He who loveth mean and sordid things doth thereby become base and vile, but a noble and well-placed affection doth advance and improve the spirit into a conformity with the perfections which it loves.”
― Henry Scougal, The Life of God in the Soul of Man

“When we need advice, we find a wise person, ask him or her a question, and listen to the answer. It seldom occurs to us to do this with God. For starters, we don’t know how God will answer. We don’t hear an audible voice, so we dismiss the possibility of God speaking into our lives. In effect we are saying, “I must know how this will work ahead of time. I must be in control.” We forget that in most of life we don’t have control. When it comes to people, we often don’t know how things will work out ahead of time. We forget we are embodied spirits, designed to hear from God.”
― Paul E. Miller, A Praying Life: Connecting With God In A Distracting World

“The slightest outward or inward departure from absolute mathematical parallelism with God's revealed will and character constitutes a sin, and at once makes us guilty in God's sight.”
― J.C. Ryle, Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties, and Roots

“Usually, what bugs us the most about other people is true of us as well. By first taking the beam out of his own eye (see Matthew 7:1-5), the husband releases in his wife’s life the unseen energy of the Spirit. The kingdom is beginning to come.”
― Paul E. Miller, A Praying Life: Connecting With God In A Distracting World