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[Paleoconservatarian]

"Truth when it is in the plainest dress is most comely. The star shines brightest in its native lustre. Who goes to embroider a pearl? or paint over gold? It is a sign of a wanton Christian to look most at the fringing and garnishing of a truth. Many like the dressing but loathe the food. When men preach rather words than matter, they catch people's ears, not their souls; they do but court, not convert." --Thomas Watson

 

[Imblessed]

My mom told me once "You know you are headed on the right path only when the devil's hounding you. If he'd leaving you alone, Watch Out!"

 

[mlqurgw]

The function of religion is to make men holier than other men; the function of grace is to make men holy. Isa. 65:2-5 Don Fortnor.

 

[McWilliams]

Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hellThomas Watson

 

[McWilliams]

"I claim no right to myself, no right to this understanding, this will, these affections that are in me. Neither do I have any right to this body or its members, no right to this tongue, to these hands, feet, ears or eyes. I have given myself clear away and not retained anything of my own. I have been to God this morning and told Him I have given myself wholly to Him. I have given every power so that for the future I claim no right to myself in any respect. I have expressly promised Him for by His grace I will not fail. I take Him as my whole portion and felicity, looking upon nothing else as any past of my happiness. His law is the constant rule of my obedience. I will fight with all my might against the world, the flesh and the devil to the end of my life. I will adhere to the faith of the gospel however hazardous and difficult the profession and practice of it may be. I pray God for the sake of others to look on this as self-dedication. Henceforth, I am not to act in any respect as my own. I shall act as my own if I ever make use of any of my powers to do anything that is not to the glory of God or to fail to make the glorifying of HIm my whole and entire business. If I murmur in the least at affliction, if I am in any way uncharitable, if I revenge my own case, if I do anything purely to please myself or omit anything because it is a great denial, if I trust myself, if I take any praise for any good which Christ does by me, or if I am in any way proud, I shall act as my own and not God's. But I purpose to be absolutely His!"

 

[edie19]

I like this one too. . . .

The Bible will give Christ to you in an
intimacy so close that he would be less
visible to you if he stood before your eyes.
Erasmus

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edie

 

[HiredGoon]

"It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there is a wise Spirit sitting in all the wheels of motion, and governing the most eccentric creatures and their most pernicious designs to blessed and happy issues. And, indeed, it were not worth while to live in a world devoid of God and Providence." -John Flavel, The Mystery of Providence

 

[McWilliams]

Solemn thought---our love to God will be measured by our everyday relating to man! Our love to God will be found to be a delusion, except as its truth is proved in standing the test of daily life with our fellowmen. Humility towards men will be the only sufficient proof that our humility before God is real, that humility has taken up its abode in us and become our nature, that we, like Christ, have made ourselves of no reputation.
When in the presence of God, lowliness of heart has become not a posture we assume for a time, when we think of Him, or pray to Him but the very spirit of our life, it will manifest itself in all our bearing toward our brethren!
Andrew Murray(1828-1917)

 

[McWilliams]

"Question: How shall we know that we love the reproofs of the Word? (1) When we desire to sit under a heart-searching ministry. Who cares for medicines that will not work? A godly man does not choose to sit under a ministry that will not work upon his conscience. (2) When we pray that the Word may meet with our sins. If there is any traitorous lust in our heart, we would have it found out and executed. We do not want sin covered, but cured. We can open our breast to the bullet of the Word and say, 'Lord, smite this sin.'"; "THOMAS WATSON";

 

[seekingpurity047]

In light of this day, Good Friday, I will post one of my favorite passages from scripture.

Lk. 23:39-43

39One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him,[d] saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!" 40But the other rebuked him, saying, "Do you not fear God, since you are under the same sentence of condemnation? 41And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong." 42And he said, "Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom." 43And he said to him, "Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in Paradise."

 

[McWilliams]

When I Survey The Wondrous Cross

by Issac Watts
(Galatians 6:14)

When I survey the wondrous Cross
Where the young Prince of Glory died,
My richest gain I count but loss,
And pour contempt on all my pride.

Forbid it, Lord, that I should boast
Save in the death of Christ, my God;
All the vain things that charm me most,

I sacrifice them to his blood.
See from his head, his hands, his feet,
Sorrow and love flow mingled down;
Did e'er such love and sorrow meet?
Or thorns compose so rich a crown?

His dying crimson like a robe
Spreads o'er his body on the Tree,
Then am I dead to all the globe,
And all the globe is dead to me.
Were the whole realm of nature mine,
That were a present far too small;
Love so amazing, so divine,
Demands my soul, my life, my all.
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[seekingpurity047]

Rom 5:8

God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

Praise God for this day.

 

[mannysee]

well, since the opening post did not specify that a fav. quote had to be biblical related....

"I'd rather be able to ask questions to which there is no answer, than have questions which cannot be asked."
(I am researching a cult).

 

[Hackett]

Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

[FONT=VERDANA, ARIAL, SANS-SERIF]-Winston Churchill[/FONT] [FONT=VERDANA, ARIAL, SANS-SERIF][/FONT]

 

[seekingpurity047]

The strength of that heretic (John Calvin) consisted in this, that money never had the slightest charm for him. If I had such servants my dominion would extend from sea to sea.

Pope Pius IV (1559-1565)

 

[Hackett]

[FONT=VERDANA, ARIAL, SANS-SERIF]If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.

[FONT=VERDANA, ARIAL, SANS-SERIF]-Jonathan Winters[/FONT] [FONT=VERDANA, ARIAL, SANS-SERIF][/FONT][/FONT]

 

[McWilliams]

"...all the calls to "reclaim America for Christ" leave me cold. Our real need is to reclaim the church for Christ. When Christ is exalted in His church, when He is loved and revered and cherised with passion by those who bear His Name--in other words, when the church starts living like the church--then His body cannot help but make an impact on culture."

TOM ASCOL

 

[Hackett]

"...all the calls to "reclaim America for Christ" leave me cold. Our real need is to reclaim the church for Christ. When Christ is exalted in His church, when He is loved and revered and cherised with passion by those who bear His Name--in other words, when the church starts living like the church--then His body cannot help but make an impact on culture."

TOM ASCOL

A M E N!!

 

[HiredGoon]

"Remember, it is not hasty reading, but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bee's touching of the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian." - Thomas Brooks, Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices (1652).

 

[Hackett]

If there were no God, there would be no Atheists.
G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)