Helpful Quotes by Various Godly Men Throughout the Ages
Henry Smith- 16th Century Puritan:
I. A sin is two sins when it its defended.
II. Thy alms to the poor, thy counsel to the simple, thy inheritance to thy children, thy tribute to Caesar; but thy heart to God.
III. When the devil cannot stay us from a good work, then he laboureth by all means to make us proud of it.
IV. God examineth with trials, the devil examineth with temptations, the world examineth with persecutions.
V. The wife was made of the husband's rib; not of his head, for Paul calleth the husband the wife's head; not of the foot, for he must not set her at his foot. The servant is appointed to serve, and the wife is to help. If she must not match with the head, nor stoop at the foot, where shall he set her then? He must set her at his heart., and therefore she which should lie in his bosom was made in his bosom.
II. Thy alms to the poor, thy counsel to the simple, thy inheritance to thy children, thy tribute to Caesar; but thy heart to God.
III. When the devil cannot stay us from a good work, then he laboureth by all means to make us proud of it.
IV. God examineth with trials, the devil examineth with temptations, the world examineth with persecutions.
V. The wife was made of the husband's rib; not of his head, for Paul calleth the husband the wife's head; not of the foot, for he must not set her at his foot. The servant is appointed to serve, and the wife is to help. If she must not match with the head, nor stoop at the foot, where shall he set her then? He must set her at his heart., and therefore she which should lie in his bosom was made in his bosom.
Sir Richard Baker- 16th Century Author:
It is a far happier thing to be pitied of God, than to be envied of men.
Daniel Cawdray- 17th Century English Clergyman:
As the apple is not the cause of the apple tree, but a fruit of it: even so good works are not the cause of our salvation, but a sign and a fruit of the same.
John Trapp: 17th Century English Anglican Bible Commentator:
A prudent wife commands her husband by obeying him.
Richard Sibbes: 17th Century Anglican Theologian
Death is only a grim porter to let us into a stately palace.
William Secker: 17th Century Puritan
I. Though Christians be not kept altogether from falling, yet they are kept from falling altogether.
II. Pride is the sinner's torment; humility is the saint's ornament.
III. Many have passed the rocks of gross sins—who have suffered shipwreck upon the sands of self-righteousness.
IV. Many blush to confess their faults, who never blush to commit them.
V. Until we taste the bitterness of our own misery, we will never relish the sweetness of God's mercy.
Until we see how foul our sins have made us, we will never pay our tribute of praise to Christ for redeeming us.
VI. "I hate pride and arrogance!" Proverbs 8:13. God abhors those people worst, who adore themselves most. Pride is not a Bethel—that is, a house where God dwells; but a Babel—that is, a stinking dungeon in which Satan abides. Pride is not only a most hateful evil—but the most radical evil. As all other lusts are found lodging in it—so they are found springing from it. Pride is a foul leprosy, in the face of morality. Pride is a hurtful worm, gnawing at the root of humility. Pride is a cancer within, and a spreading plague without!
VII. By fasting, the body learns to obey the soul. By praying, the soul learns to command the body.
VIII. A true Christian no more trusts in the best of his services, as in the worst of his sins!
II. Pride is the sinner's torment; humility is the saint's ornament.
III. Many have passed the rocks of gross sins—who have suffered shipwreck upon the sands of self-righteousness.
IV. Many blush to confess their faults, who never blush to commit them.
V. Until we taste the bitterness of our own misery, we will never relish the sweetness of God's mercy.
Until we see how foul our sins have made us, we will never pay our tribute of praise to Christ for redeeming us.
VI. "I hate pride and arrogance!" Proverbs 8:13. God abhors those people worst, who adore themselves most. Pride is not a Bethel—that is, a house where God dwells; but a Babel—that is, a stinking dungeon in which Satan abides. Pride is not only a most hateful evil—but the most radical evil. As all other lusts are found lodging in it—so they are found springing from it. Pride is a foul leprosy, in the face of morality. Pride is a hurtful worm, gnawing at the root of humility. Pride is a cancer within, and a spreading plague without!
VII. By fasting, the body learns to obey the soul. By praying, the soul learns to command the body.
VIII. A true Christian no more trusts in the best of his services, as in the worst of his sins!