Peace

Perfect Love – Hugh Binning

Perfect love casts out the fear of hell, but perfect love brings in the fear of sin: “Ye that love the Lord, hate evil” Psalm 97:10; and if you hate it, you will fear it, in this state of infirmity and weakness wherein we are.

– Hugh Binning –
from Christian Love, 1627-1653

Hold Christ More Closely – JC Ryle

Let us hold to Christ more closely, love him more heartily, live for him more thoroughly, copy him more exactly, confess him more boldly, follow him more fully. Religion like this will always bring its own reward. Worldly people may laugh at it. Weak brethren may think it extreme. But it will wear well. In sickness it will bring peace. In the world to come it will give us a crown of glory that fades not away.

– JC Ryle –
from Sickness

Treasures of Darkness – Oswald Chambers

Any great calamity in the natural world—death, disease, bereavement—will awaken a man when nothing else would, and he is never the same again. We would never know the “treasures of darkness” if we were always in the place of placid security.

– Oswald Chambers –

How to Have Inward Peace – Ashbel Green

Remember that secret prayer, reading the word of God, watchfulness, and self-examination are the great means of preserving comfort in religion, and of growing in grace. In proportion as you are exact and faithful in these, such usually will be your inward peace, and the safety of your state. Unite them all together, and never cease to practice them while you live.

– Ashbel Green –
1762 –1848

What Do You Find Sweetness In? – Thomas Brooks

Oh what bitterness do I now find in that which Satan, the world, and my own deluded heart told me I should find sweetness in.

– Thomas Brooks –
from Heaven on Earth: A Treatise on Christian Assurance, 1654