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Hugh Binning Quotes
The sharpest, most searching lines from Hugh Binning, drawn straight from the Puritan Paperbacks. Filter by theme, or browse the whole collection.
“We are not our own, therefore we ought not to live to ourselves, but to God, whose we are.”
“Self-knowledge is the mother of humility.”
“Temptation were no temptation, if our hearts were not wicked hearts.”
“I beseech you consider, that what you give your time, pains, thoughts and affections to, that is your God.”
“A believing soul looks upon God as its only portion, accounts nothing misery but to be separated from Him.”
“Charity is apt to take all things in the best sense.”
“In love a Christian should be like his Father, and there is nothing in which he resembles him more than in this, to walk in love towards all men.”
“Whatever you hear or know of God, know that it is vain and empty unless it descend down into the heart to fashion it to his fear and love.”
“I wish that souls would read the Scriptures as profitable Scriptures with the intention to profit.”
“One line of the Bible is worth more than all the learning of men.”
“Self love and pride were the first poison that the malice of Satan dropped into man's nature, and this is so strong and pestilent, that it has spread through the whole of mankind, and the whole in every man.”
“If anything seem imperfect in itself, yet it is perfect in relation to his glorious ends he directs it unto.”
“There is a greater moment and weight of Christianity in charity than in the most part of those things for which Christians bite and devour one another.”