“Wherefore doth the Lord make your cup run over, but that other men’s lips might taste the liquor? The showers that fall upon the highest mountains should glide into the lowest valleys. “Give, and it shall be given you”, is a maxim little believed.”
– William Secker
“Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.”
― Francis of Assisi
“A truly humble man is sensible of his natural distance from God; of his dependence on Him; of the insufficiency of his own power and wisdom; and that it is by God’s power that he is upheld and provided for, and that he needs God’s wisdom to lead and guide him, and His might to enable him to do what he ought to do for Him.”
– Jonathan Edwards
“That which does not die cannot be raised”
Brendan Jaster
“Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened,
except it die”
1 Corinthians 15:36
“A foolish physician he is, and a most unfaithful friend, that will let a sick man die for fear of troubling him; and cruel wretches are we to our friends, that will rather suffer them to go quietly to hell, then we will anger them, or hazard our reputation with them”
– Richard Baxter
“Faithful are the wounds of a friend;
but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful”
Proverbs 27:6
Wisdom of the Ages 