Be regular in going to church, whenever it is open for prayer and preaching, and it is in your power to attend. I would not want to leave any false impression on your minds. Do not go away and say I told you that going to […]
Seriously determine to find out [experientially] what it is to enjoy God, and to have communion with Him. Long for it, that you shall never lose your longing. Pant after it; God understands the rhetoric of your breathing as well as your cry. “If,” says Augustine, […]
An earthly saint is a contradiction. The Greek word for saint signifies a person refined and separated from the earth. If an astronomer, instead of observing the planets, and the motions of the heavens, should take a reed in his hand and fall to measuring the […]
The infinite and glorious God, though He is so high that He humbled himself to behold things in heaven, and so holy that “the heavens are unclean in His sight” (Job 15:15), is yet so gracious that He condescends to, and converses with, poor sinful dust […]
An upright heart is first a perfect heart, as the Scripture terms it. It is an entirely whole heart, which is when all the powers go one and the same way, when the whole soul is bent after God and is driven only to seek and honor Him.