His eye affected his heart.
Taken from Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible
by Matthew Henry 1662-1714
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His eye affected his heart.
Taken from Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole Bible
by Matthew Henry 1662-1714
How many people have you made homesick for God?
Taken from the book The Quotable Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers 1874-1917
Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "the rejoicing of hope". (Hebrews 3:6)
William Gurnall 1617-1679 Quoted in the book A Puritan Golden Treasury
Taken from the book The Complete John Ploughman
by Charles Spurgeon 1834-1892
You fly to company, to vain amusements, or the cares of this world to stifle the voice of conscience. Why do you strive to stifle her voice? Alas! it is because you know that conscience witnesses against you. But though you endeavor to drown her voice, yet you know that now and then she speaks in a tone of terror. And is this the happiness you promise yourself in the ways of sin?
Taken from the tract Warning Voice in the book The Publications of the American Tract Society
Tracts are from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries
What will it avail thee to dispute profoundly of the Trinity, if thou be void of humility, and art thereby displeasing to the Trinity? Surely high words do not make a man holy and just; but a virtuous life maketh him dear to God.
I had rather feel compunction, than undersatnd the definition thereof. If thou didst know the whole Bible by heart, and the sayings of all the philosphers, what would all that profit thee without the love of God and without grace? Vanity of vanities and all is vanity, except to love God, and to serve him only.
Taken from the book The Imitation of Christ by Thomas a Kempis 1380-1471
How true it is that the holiest saint is in himself a "miserable sinner," and a debtor to mercy and grace to the last moment of his existence!
Taken from the book Holiness by JC Ryle 1879