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Perseverance
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“Seek that your last days may be your best days, and so you may die in a good old age, which may be best done when you die good in old age, and are such as St. Paul the aged who had finished his course.”
“Let weak Christians know that a spark from heaven, though kindled under green wood that sobs and smokes, yet it will consume all at last.”
“When we are foiled, let us believe we shall overcome; when we have fallen, let us believe we shall rise again.”
“Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us.”
“As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low.”
“Temptations, when we meet them at first, are as the lion that roared upon Samson; but if we overcome them, the next time we see them we shall find a nest of honey within them.”
“My sword I give to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.”
“To go back is nothing but death: to go forward is fear of death, and life everlasting beyond it. I will yet go forward.”
“God will not lightly or easily lose His people. He has provided well for us: blood to wash us in; a Priest to pray for us, that we may be made to persevere; and, in case we foully fall, an Advocate to plead our cause.”
“Prayer is an ordinance of God that must continue with a soul so long as it is on this side glory.”
“Now I saw in my dream, that the highway, up which Christian was to go, was fenced on either side with a wall, and that wall was called salvation.”
“Though heaven be given us freely, yet we must contend for it.”
“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.”
“The ship which lies at anchor may sometimes be a little shaken, but never sinks.”
“By perseverance the snail reached the ark.”
“Begin as you mean to go on, and go on as you began, and let the Lord be all in all to you.”
“As for His failing you, never dream of it, hate the thought of it. The God who has been sufficient until now, should be trusted to the end.”
“The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace.”
“The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little.”
“May your character not be a writing upon the sand, but an inscription upon the rock!”
“It is true that we endure trials, but it is just as true that we are delivered out of them.”
“You may lose a great deal for Christ, but you will never lose anything by Christ.”
“Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth.”
“Your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all.”
“Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.”
“God loves the saints as the purchase of his Son's blood, they cost him dearly. That which is obtained by such great expense, shall not be easily lost.”
“Weak faith will as surely land the Christian in Heaven as strong faith, for it is impossible the least grain of true grace should perish.”
“Blind zeal is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts up its head like a rock in the midst of the waves.”
“He that loves the Word and the purity of its precepts cannot turn traitor.”
“Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it.”