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"I look upon prayer-meetings as the most profitable exercises (excepting the public preaching) in which Christians can engage. They have a direct tendency to kill a worldly, trifling spirit, and to draw down a Divine blessing upon all our concerns, compose differences, and enkindle (at least maintain) the flames of Divine love amongst brethren."
"If two angels were to receive at the same moment a commission from God, one to go down and rule earth’s grandest empire, the other to go and sweep the streets of its meanest village, it would be a matter of entire indifference to each which service fell to his lot, the post of ruler or the post of scavenger; for the joy of the angels lies only in obedience to God’s will, and with equal joy they would lift a Lazarus in his rags to Abraham’s bosom, or be a chariot of fire to carry an Elijah home."
"Let me endeavor to lead you out of yourself: let me invite you to look unto Jesus."
"If it were possible for me to alter any part of his plan, I could only spoil it."
"A minister full of comforts & free from failings as an angel, though he would be happy, wouldn't be a good or useful preacher"
"As to myself, if I were not a Calvinist, I think I should have no more hope of success in preaching to men, than to horses or cows."
"Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain."
"Every drop of rain hits its appointed target."
"God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually."
"I am not what I ought to be! Ah! how imperfect and deficient! - I am not what I wish to be! I 'abhor what is evil,' and I would 'cleave to what is good!' - I am not what I hope to be! Soon, soon, I shall put off mortality: and with mortality all sin and imperfection! Yet, though I am not what I ought to be, nor what I wish to be, nor what I hope to be, I can truly say, I am not what I once was - a slave to sin and Satan; and I can heartily join with the Apostle, and acknowledge; By the grace of God, I am what I am!"
"Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years"
"I am a great Sinner and God is a great Savior"
"But by the grace of God I am what I am"
"I know not a better rule of reading the Scripture, than to read it through from beginning to end and when we have finished it once, to begin it again. We shall meet with many passages which we can make little improvement of, but not so many in the second reading as in the first, and fewer in the third than in the second: provided we pray to him who has the keys to open our understandings, and to anoint our eyes with His spiritual ointment."
"So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on."
"The art of spreading rumors may be compared to the art of pin-making. There is usually some truth, which I call the wire; as this passes from hand to hand, one gives it a polish, another a point, others make and put on the head, and at last the pin is completed."
"By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease."
"By one hour's intimate access to the throne of grace, where the Lord causes His glory to pass before the soul that seeks Him you may acquire more true spiritual knowledge and comfort than a day's or a week's converse with the best of men, or the most."
"Experience is the Lord's school, and they who are taught by Him usually learn by the mistakes they make that in themselves they have no wisdom; and by their slips and falls, that they have no strength."
"If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none by keeping away from Him."