Heaven, indeed, is not only a place, but a nature; and it is a contradiction to think that any can be happy with a nature contrary to the very essence of happiness. Stephen Charnock
Everlasting
No husband is so undying and everlasting a husband as Christ is; death separates all other relations, but the soul’s union with Christ is not dissolved in the grave. Indeed, the day of a believer’s death is his marriage day, the day of his fullest enjoyment of Christ. No husband can say to his wife, […]
Ask, seek, knock
Prayer is a salve for every sore… Matthew Henry
Professing, not confessing
What a sad thing it is when it is said of professing Christians that they are as proud, as covetous and as unjust as others! Thomas Watson
False shepherds
God forbid, that having undertaken the sacred office of revealing the excellencies of Christ to the world, we should make light of him ourselves, and slight that salvation which we daily preach. Richard Baxter
Judge righteous judgment
It is the highest folly to regulate our actions by any other standard than that by which we must be judged. Henry Scougal
By Grace Alone
O miserable impenitent souls! What think you to reply, when God shall ask you, “Why did you not repent and love your Redeemer above the world, when you imagined you could easily do it at any time?” Richard Baxter
You Must Be Born Again
Now, can the heart of a natural man cling about God? Can it forget its father’s house, and be wholly taken up with the Creator’s excellency? Can he that loved pleasures more than God in the world, love God more than pleasures in heaven, without an alteration of his soul? No. Stephen Charnock
The Beginning of Wisdom
Faith and fear go hand in hand. When the soul looks at God’s holiness, he fears. When he looks at God’s promises, he believes. A godly man trembles, yet trusts. Fear preserves reverence, faith preserves cheerfulness. Fear keeps the soul from lightness, faith keeps it from sadness. By this we may know whether we walk […]
It is Grace
He (Christ) expects no restitution from us, and yet gives himself, and all that he has, to us. Our poverty cannot enrich him, but he made himself poor to enrich us… John Flavel