George Downame famous quotes

The Lord does not measure out our afflictions according to our faults, but according to our strength, and looks not what we have deserved, but what we are able to bear.
-- George Downame

#Grace #Doe #Looks

For as a city which has been once besieged and not sacked will ever after be more strong to hold out if it be assaulted by the like danger.... so those who are besieged and assaulted by their spiritual enemies will ever after more carefully arm themselves against them with the graces of God's Spirit, that they may not be overcome nor foiled by them.
-- George Downame

#Spiritual #Strong #Prayer

The Christian soldier must avoid two evils - he must not faint or yield in the time of fight, and after a victory he must not wax insolent and secure. When he has overcome, he is so to behave himself as though he were presently again to be assaulted. For Satan’s temptations like the waves of the sea, do follow one in the neck of the other
-- George Downame

#Christian #Fighting #Yield

Afflictions, like bills and pikes, make a terrible show when they cannot reach us; but the temptations of prosperity, like unseen bullets, wound and kill us before they are discerned.
-- George Downame

#Temptation #Affliction #Bills

G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.

God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.

There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work

Tut, Tut, looks like rain

One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.

Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.

I don't look at myself as suffering.

Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.