Month: July 2021

“Blessed is that brother who would love his brother as much when he is ill and not able to assist him as he loves him when he is well and able to assist him.  Blessed is the brother who would love and fear his brother as much when he is far from him as he would when with him, and who would not say anything about him behind his back that he would not with charity say in his presence.”

“So, it is always pruning time with us, brethren, because there is always need for it.  For virtues and vices cannot grow together; if your virtues are to grow, your faults must be prevented from making any development at all.”

“Where there is the fear of the Lord to guard the house the enemy cannot find a way to enter.  Where there is mercy and discretion there is neither superfluity  and hard-heartedness“

“Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.“

“Where there is charity and wisdom the is neither fear nor ignorance.  Where there is patience and humility there is neither anger nor worry.”

“And let us be much on our guard against the malice and cunning of Satan, who desires that man should not give his heart and mind to the Lord God, and who going about seeks to seduce the heart of man under pretext of some reward or benefit, to smother the words and precepts of the lord from memory, and who wishes to blind the heart of may by worldly business and cares.”

2 Corinthians 4:16-18 Amplified Bible, Classic Edition (AMPC)

16 Therefore we do not become discouraged (utterly spiritless, exhausted, and wearied out through fear). Though our outer man is [progressively] decaying and wasting away, yet our inner self is being [progressively] renewed day after day.
17 For our light, momentary affliction (this slight distress of the passing hour) is ever more and more abundantly preparing and producing and achieving for us an everlasting weight of glory [beyond all measure, excessively surpassing all comparisons and all calculations, a vast and transcendent glory and blessedness never to cease!],
18 Since we consider and look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen; for the things that are visible are temporal (brief and fleeting), but the things that are invisible are deathless and everlasting.

“Upright and faithful Christians ever think they are not faithful, nor believe as they ought; and therefore they constantly strive, wrestle, and are diligent to keep and to increase faith, as good workmen always see that something is wanting in their workmanship.”

“Where great wealth is, there is all manner of sins; for through wealth comes pride, through pride dissension, through dissension, wars, poverty; through poverty, great distress and misery.  Therefore, they that are rich, must yield a strict and great account; for to whom much is given, of him much will be required.”

“I look forward to a day of prayer; for my soul hath great need of quickening and restoration, that it may act more in the view of eternity, and conformably to the holy profession whereunto I am called, of a minister of Christ.”