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17 April 2008
Signs of Real Change
WILLIAM GURNALL:
"Christ counts it his honor, that he is a king of a willing people, and not of slaves."
"Blind zeal is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts its head like a rock in the midst of waves."
"Love refuseth nothing that love sends."
"Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse."
THOMAS BROOKS:
"An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction."
"A humble soul sees that he can stay no more from sin, than the heart can from panting, and the pulse from beating. He sees his heart and life to be fuller of sin, than the firmament is of stars; and this keeps him low. He sees that sin is so bred in the bone, that till his bones, as Joseph's, be carried out of the Egypt of this world, it will not out. Though sin and grace were never born together, and though they shall not die together, yet while the believer lives, those two must live together; and this keeps him humble."
THOMAS CHALMERS:
"Even in the most brutal and pagan civilizations of antiquity there is a reflection, however primordial, of the unity of the human race, the continuity of the human story, and the commonality of the human condition. The devil really has no art, or culture of his own so he is forced to plagiarize, imitate, distort, beg, barrow, and steal."
John Wesley:
"Christ counts it his honor, that he is a king of a willing people, and not of slaves."
"Blind zeal is soon put to a shameful retreat, while holy resolution, built on fast principles, lifts its head like a rock in the midst of waves."
"Love refuseth nothing that love sends."
"Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse."
THOMAS BROOKS:
"An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction."
"A humble soul sees that he can stay no more from sin, than the heart can from panting, and the pulse from beating. He sees his heart and life to be fuller of sin, than the firmament is of stars; and this keeps him low. He sees that sin is so bred in the bone, that till his bones, as Joseph's, be carried out of the Egypt of this world, it will not out. Though sin and grace were never born together, and though they shall not die together, yet while the believer lives, those two must live together; and this keeps him humble."
THOMAS CHALMERS:
"Even in the most brutal and pagan civilizations of antiquity there is a reflection, however primordial, of the unity of the human race, the continuity of the human story, and the commonality of the human condition. The devil really has no art, or culture of his own so he is forced to plagiarize, imitate, distort, beg, barrow, and steal."
John Wesley:
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