Watch over your desires, such as would dull and blunt the edge of the spirit. As iron drives out iron, so one desire drives out another. If we are taken with other things, Christ loses His sweetness and relish. Vain worldly desires extinguish those that are […]
Do as they do that would keep in the fire, cherish the sparks and blow them up to a flame. There is no man that lives under the means of grace, and under the discoveries of God, but hath his good moods and very lively motions. […]
How do vain thoughts intrude into the mind! No man can keep a door locked against them. We feel them rushing upon us while we endeavour to avoid them. We are confounded and overwhelmed by them, and drawn to things against our own resolutions. —Stephen Charnock […]
We must not be strange to him in our thoughts, but make him the object of our most serious meditations: It is said of the wicked that “they are far from God;” and that “God is not in all their thoughts” (Ps 73:27; 10:4). The thoughts […]
It is surely a great point of wisdom for any man to shun and avoid, if he can, troubles and afflictions, and it [is] also certain that it is as great a part of wisdom for a man, if he can, to get into such a […]