The ship that leaks is more easily emptied at the beginning than afterwards; the bird is easily killed in the egg, but when once hatched and fledged, we may kill it when we can catch it. A frequent reckoning with ourselves will pluck sin up before […]
“When the thread of the gospel is too fine spun, it will not clothe a naked soul.” Nice distinctions and technical phrases may hide the fulness of the word of God, and the simple truth may be treated in such a philosophical manner that its strength […]
A Christian must keep a watch and guard against envy and malice, or any bitterness of spirit These things are the very reverse of that great and distinguishing thing in Christianity—the very essence of Christianity. It behooves Christians, as they would not by their practice directly […]
He faces the shore, but he is pulling for the ship: This is the way of those who row in boats, and also of a great many who never trust themselves on the water. The boatman is all right, but the hypocrite is all wrong. I […]
True virtue never appears so lovely as when it is most oppressed, and the divine excellency of real Christianity is never exhibited with such advantage as when under the greatest trials. —Jonathan Edwards The Works of Jonathan Edwards, 1:236.