"A man may as certainly miscarry by his seeming righteousness and supposed graces, as by gross sins; and that is, when a man doth trust in these as his righteousness before God, for the satisfying His justice, appeasing His wrath, procuring His favor, and obtaining his own pardon."

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Source : Joseph Alleine (1816). “An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners, in a Serious Treatise”, p.107

Joseph Alleine

#Men Quotes #Wrath Quotes #Justice Quotes

“I'd like to be with an interesting man who is understanding about having a busy partner.”
“The God we worship is Jesus - He is the image of the invisible God - and if we dare seek Him for who He really is rather than pursue an idea of Him that fits into our tidy boxes, He will blow our minds.”

Source : Source: www.christianpost.com
“The material particle nature of primary cosmic radiation has been confirmed, although the processes turned out to be extraordinarily more complicated than we had assumed.”
“I think you die the way you live.”
“Perhaps if there is anything remotely interesting about my writing style, it is this: more often than not I have no idea what the story is going to be about. Sometimes I have a fuzzy vision, or a glimpse of one scene, or a character. But mostly all I have is a random first sentence, and I follow it to see where it might go. For me, writing is the process of discovery, of gradually figuring out what happens in the story and how it ends, that makes writing an interesting process for me.”
“It's all about perseverance. Absolute perseverance. You can always get back up.”
“Some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow-men; and many folks think it very wicked to black their boots on Sunday morning, yet they do not hesitate to black their neighbor's reputation on week-days.”
“The truth is often one's best shield.”

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