Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellow men, and to God as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.
Is it not more reasonable to believe what God speaks in His Word, than to confide in our own crude and feeble conceptions.
Do not for a moment suppose that you must make yourself better, or prepare your heart for a worthy reception of Christ but come at once yet come as you are.
If you were not a sinful, polluted, helpless, and miserable creature this Savior would not be suited to you, and you would not be comprehended in his gracious invitations to sinful men.
Now, my friend, I beg you to consider that this blindness and unyielding hardness is the very core of your iniquity and to be convinced that you are thus blind and stupid, is true conviction of sin.
God has set before you an open door which no man has a right or power to shut. If you should be shut out, it will be by your own unbelief, and not for want of a warrant to come. Enter, then, without delay or hesitation. None can less afford to delay than the aged sinner. Now is the time. Now or never. You have, as it were, one foot already in the grave. Your opportunities will soon be over. Strive, then, I entreat you, to enter in at the strait gate!
In vain do we seek to awaken our churches to zeal in evangelism, as a separate thing. To be genuine, it must flow from love to Christ. It is when a sense of personal communion with the Son of God is highest that we shall be most fit for missionary work, either ourselves or to stir up others.
[Archibald Alexander]
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