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Godliness
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“Believers are Christ’s garden; their graces are flowers; their savory discourse is the fragrant scent of these flowers.”
“A Christian by divine discourse may enlighten another when he is ignorant, warm him when he is frozen, comfort him when he is sad, confirm him when he is wavering.”
“Know that it is not the knowing , nor the talking , nor the reading man—but the doing man, that at last will be found the happiest man. "If you know these things, blessed and happy are you if you DO them." (John 13:17)”
“That is good which doth good.”
“Be careful in your choice of a pastor; choose one who in his doctrine, life, and manners, may adorn the gospel.”
“Those families wherein this service of God is performed, are (as it were) little churches, yea, even a kind of Paradise upon earth.”
“The course of thy life will speak more for thee than the discourse of thy lips.”
“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.”
“He grieves truly, that weeps without a witness; so it may be said of godliness, He is sincere in his godliness, who is godly in secret.”
“As the caterpillar consumeth the leaf, and the canker the rose, so will idleness thy godliness.”
“It is not he who reads most, but he who meditates most, who will prove to be the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.”
“Church greatness consists in being greatly serviceable.”
“Keep company with the more cheerful sort of the Godly; there is no mirth like the mirth of believers.”
“We must feel toward our people as a father toward his children; yea, the most tender love of a mother must not surpass ours. We must even travail in birth, till Christ be formed in them.”
“A man there was, and they called him mad; the more he gave, the more he had.”
“Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other's roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.”
“It is Christianity to be sincere, unfeigned honest, and upright-hearted before God; and to live and serve God, supposing there was not one man nor woman in all the world dwelling beside you, to eye you.”
“Seriousness is the Christian's ballast which keeps him from being overturned with vanity.”
“Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?”
“The more helpful we are to others, the more like we are to God.”
“A good Christian holds secret communication with heaven. Private prayer keeps up the trade of godliness. When private holiness is laid aside, a stab is given to the heart of piety.”
“We shall never go to heaven when we die, unless we are in heaven while we live.”
“A good character is the best tombstone. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.”
“Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it.”
“If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.”
“Begin as you mean to go on, and go on as you began, and let the Lord be all in all to you.”
“Stale godliness is ungodliness. Let our religion be as warm, and constant, and natural as the flow of the blood in our veins.”
“Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world.”
“By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together.”
“Ministers should be stars to give light, not clouds to obscure.”