By keeping the heart, understand the diligent and constant use of all holy means to preserve the soul from sin, and maintain its sweet and free communion with God.
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Self is the poise of the unrenewed heart, which biases and moves it in all its designs and actions; and as long as it is so, it is impossible that any external means should keep it with God.
What the heart is to the body, that the soul is to the man; and what health is to the heart, that holiness is to the soul.
God values no man by outward excellencies, but by inward graces.
As God did not at first choose you because you were high, he will not now forsake you because you are low.
Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent a beautiful history to the eye.