Faith lives in a broken
heart. 'He cried out with tears, Lord, I believe.' True faith is
always in a heart bruised for sin. They, therefore, whose hearts were
never touched for sin, have no faith... So saving faith always grows
in a heart humbled for sin, in a weeping eye and a tearful
conscience. ~Thomas Watson
Ignorance of God and of
ourselves is the great principle and cause of all our disquietments;
and, this ariseth mostly not from want of light and instruction, but
for want of consideration and application.
~John Owen
Though Christians be not
kept altogether from falling, yet they are kept from falling
altogether. ~William Secker
Adversity is the diamond
dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. ~Robert Leighton
Note well: As the Lord
lives, I durst promise it in His name, if we would seek Him we should
see the salvation of the Lord. ~Samuel Rutherford
God did not choose us
because we were worthy, but by choosing us He makes us worthy. ~Thomas Watson
Grace makes the promise and
providence the payment.
~John Flavel
Christian contentment is
that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely
submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every
condition. ~Jeremiah Burroughs
God's decree is the very
pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That
decree ties the knot of adoption so fast, that neither sin, death,
nor hell, can break it asunder.
~Thomas Watson
Faith, whereby especially
Christ rules, sets the soul so high that it looks down on all other
things as far below, as having represented to it, by the Spirit of
Christ, riches, honor, beauty and pleasures of a higher nature. ~Richard Sibbes
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