It is not hasty reading—but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul.

December 8, 2019

It is not the bee’s touching of the flower, which gathers honey—but her abiding for a time upon the flower, which draws out the sweet. It is not he who reads most—but he who meditates most, who will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.

Thomas Brooks

The Devices of Satan

Beloved, Satan being fallen from light to darkness, from felicity to misery, from heaven to hell, from an angel to…

Avoid the occasions of sin, and the least appearance of evil: We must shun and be shy of the very show and shadow of sin, and every savor or suspicion of sin.

Abstain from all appearance of evil. 1 Thess 5:22 Epiphanius says that in the old law, when any dead body…

A Lion in a Cage is a Lion Still

True grace makes all glorious within and without. ‘The King’s daughter is all glorious within; her clothing is of wrought…

Dwell: the peacock, looking upon his black feet, lets fall his plumes.

The best men dwell more upon their worser part, their ignoble part—than they do upon their noble part, their better…