Why should I be weary when every cell of my body is bursting with life?
Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it.
We all profess that we are bound for heaven, immortality, and glory: but is it any evidence that we really design it if all our thoughts are consumed about the trifles of this world, which we must leave behind us, and have only occasional thoughts of things above?
As a tender and loving friend is grieved at the unkindness of his friend. . . so is it with this tender and loving Spirit, who hath chosen our hearts for a habitation to dwell in.
Sin also carries on its war by entangling the affections and drawing them into an alliance against the mind. Grace may be enthroned in the mind, but if sin controls the affections, it has seized a fort from which it will continually assault the soul. Hence, as we shall see, mortification is chiefly directed to take place upon the affections.
Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin.
Christ so loves his people that he sings with joy over them.
The great minds, the great works transcend all limitations of time, of language, and of race, and the scholar can never feel initiated into the company of the elect until he can approach all of life's problems from the cosmopolitan standpoint.
Stefan would be so great for her, because it's just so annoying watching those two on screen all the time!
Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy.
Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.