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“It is only our daily bread that we are encouraged to ask for. The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received.”

“the greatness of trials is to be estimated, rather by the impressions they make upon our spirits, than by their outward appearances. The smallest will be too heavy for us if we are left to grapple with it in our own strength, or rather weakness; and if the Lord is pleased to put forth his power in us, He can make the heaviest light.”

“Don't train yourself to have a guilty conscience. If you are guilty, deal with it and know the joy of forgiveness in Christ. If you aren't guilty, don't wallow in feelings of failure as if that makes you a better Christian.”

“I hope the more you see, the more you love; the more you drink, the more you thirst; the more you do for him, the more you are ashamed you can do so little; and that the nearer you approach to your journey's end, the more your pace is quickened”

“We cannot be so evil as He is good. His power is a good match for our weakness; his riches for our poverty; his mercy for our misery. We are vile in ourselves; but we are complete in him. In ourselves we have cause to be abased; but in him we may rejoice.”

“without introducing non-Christians to the local church, evangelism ignores the greatest evidence we have for the truth of the gospel.”

“Surely much of that hasty and harsh spirit, often observable in young converts, arises from their having a very imperfect acquaintance with the deceitfulness of their own hearts. But, the old weather-beaten Christian, who has learnt by sorrowful experience how weak he is, and what powerful subtle enemies he has to grapple with, acquires a tenderness in dealing with bruises and broken bones of others.”

“We trust him and his grace for our salvation, not the strength of our emotions”

"One grain of grace is worth abundance of gifts. To be self-abased, to be filled with a spirit
of love, and peace, and gentleness; to be dead to the world; to have the heart deeply affected with a sense of the glory and grace of Jesus, to have our will bowed to the will of God; these are the great things, more valuable…than to be an instrument of converting a province or a nation."

“authority: someone who has strength and uses it to guide others through disciplining them, changing how they act by reference to a higher standard.”

“To love, and to lose what we love, are equally things appointed for our nature.”

“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing - to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from -“

'I am going, you see, to the Mountain. You remember how we used to look and long? And all the stories of my gold and amber house, up there against the sky, where we thought we should never really go? The greatest King of all was going to build it for me…listen…Do not let your grief shut your eyes and harden your heart”

Reading it on his couch while his fat dog keeps bothering me

“Do not be deceived, Wormwood.
Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.”

“When I am conscious that I have acted uprightly and to the best of my judgement, I try not to distress myself about consequences which I could not possibly foresee. He has wise reasons for what he permits, though I may not know them. He can make the crooked straight though I cannot. Therefore, if you must go, go with confidence and leave the rest' to him.”

“So as we strive to imitate Christ, we will grow as readers of Scripture because we will grow in our honoring of God's divine nature”

“In the terms of Scripture, the problem is that we children of Adam project ourselves when thinking and speaking about God: we paint a picture on the stars of what we most desire or value and dub it "god."”

“There is no school like the school of the cross. In a crucified Saviour are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. And the wise tongue that can speak to them that are weary, is not acquired by reading great books; but by self-knowledge and soul exercises. To learn navigation by the fire-side, will never make a man an expert mariner. He must do his business in great waters.”

“But a believer, like a sailor, is not to be surprised if the wind changes, but to learn the art of training himself to all winds for the time; and though many a poor sailor is shipwrecked, the poor believer shall gain his port. O it is good sailing with an infallible Pilot at the helm, who has the wind and weather at his command!”

“Do not abound in complaints unless in prayer, they nourish a legal spirit, and darken our views of the glory of his grace.”

“I hope the more you see, the more you love; the more you drink, the more you thirst; the more you do for him, the more you are ashamed you can do so little; and that the nearer you approach to your journey's end, the more your pace is quickened.”

“It is sad that saints have many eyes to see one another’s weaknesses, and not one to see each others gifts. It is sad that they should use spectacles to see each others weaknesses, rather than mirrors to see each others graces. “

“There is a great difference between a sheep that by weakness falls into the mud, and a swine that delights to bathe in it”

“sanctification is nothing else but the dethroning of exalted self, and the setting up of Christ's interest above it in the soul.”

“No soul would be so mad as to leave an afflicted way of holiness, to instead walk in a smooth path of wickedness”

“If you do not actually experience the love of Christ in your heart, you will not retain the idea of it in your mind. Christ is the meat, the bread, the food provided by God for your soul”

“Only a sight of his glory, and nothing else, will truly satisfy God's people. The hearts of believers are like a magnetized needle which cannot rest until it is pointing north. So also, a believer, magnetized by the love of Christ, will always be restless until he or she comes to Christ and beholds his glory.”

“To be a Christian is to regularly roll up the sleeves of your heart and make sure the Lord is your first love, His glory is your preeminent goal, and His spiritual fruit is abundant in your life.”

“A believers obedience is accomplished not by his own willpower but by Gods work in him”