Expository Thoughts on Mark

We ought to remember this in the training and education of children. In all our management we must never forget, that the seeds of all mischief and wickedness are in their hearts... They carry within them a heart ready for any sin, and until that heart is changed they are not safe, whatever we do... But no bad companion teaches a boy or girl half as much sin as their own hearts will suggest to them, unless they are renewed by the Spirit.

Expository Thoughts on Mark

But while we live, let us pray for others. It is the greatest kindness we can do to any one, to speak for him to our Lord Jesus Christ. p.148

The great Shepherd of the sheep makes no mistakes. He leads every lamb of His flock by the right way to the city of habitation. p.152

Expository Thoughts on Mark by J.C. Ryle

Let us spare no pains in labouring to bring men and women to the knowledge of Jesus Christ, that they may be saved. It is a comfortable thought, that "as many as touch Him will be made whole." p.133

External observances alone feed no conscience and sanctify no hearts. p.135

Thoughts are the parents of words and deeds. Let us pray daily for grace to keep our thoughts n order and let us cry earnestly and fervently, 'lead us not into temptation.' p.144

The man who never speaks to God about his own soul, can know nothing of praying for others. p.147

The Railway Children by E. Nesbit

Don't you think it's rather nice to think that we're in a book that God's writing? If I were writing the book, I might make mistakes. But God knows how to make the story end just right -- int he way that's best for us.

The Holy War by John Bunyan

Remember, therefore, O my Mansoul, that thou art beloved of me. As I have, therefore, taught thee to watch, to fight, to pray, and to make war against my foes; so now I command thee to believe that my love is constant to thee. O my Mansoul, how have I set my heart, my love upon thee! Watch. Behold I lay none other burden upon thee than what thou hast already. Hold fast, till I come.

Soul Depths and Soul Heights by Octavius Winslow

'I must confess,' says holy Baxter, 'as the experience of my soul, that the expectation of loving my friend in heaven powerfully kindles my love to them while on earth. If I thought I should never know, and consequently never love them after this life, I should remember them with temporal things, and love them as such, but now I delightfully commune with my pious friends, in a firm persuasion that I shall commune with them forever.'

Let's Study Philippians by Sinclair Ferguson

We must reserve in our hearts a sanctuary of love for Jesus Christ -- a sanctuary from which everything but trust in Him and love for Him is barred.