From Part III of Religious Affections by Jonathan Edwards.
ls it not God’s design that men should obtain assurance in any other way than by mortifying corruption, and increasing in grace, and obtaining the lively exercises of it. And although self-examination be a duty of great use and importance, and by no means to be neglected, yet it not to be…

Below is an excerpt from a sermon “Growth in Grace” by Spurgeon.
There are some of you, beloved, who think you are not growing in grace because you do not feel as lively as you used to do.  “Ah!” say you, “when I was young every thing was good then.  What peaceful hours I then enjoyed.  I would go over…

Last week at FBC-Bryan, we discussed the fhe following is a quote from Dr. Alexander Tyler generalizing his findings about the fall of the Athenian Republic. Dr. Tyler was a Scottish professor writing around the time of the American Revolution.

A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government. A democracy will…

from John Owen’s The Mortification of Sin, Chapter 3. Not the greatest passage from the book… hopefully there will be better quotes from Owen later.

“Men are galled with the sin that hath prevailed over them; they instantly promise to themselves and to God that they will do so no more; they watch over themselves and pray for a season, until…

It hits every semester like a brick wall. Apathy. Apathy for all things academic. Usually it takes a round of tests to do this. But this semester is different. Even though I have no desire to do any schoolwork already, it has become easier to will myself to work. Why? Because I am convinced that it matters in the long…