"Pride is a person having too high an opinion of himself. Pride is the first sin that ever entered into the universe, and the last sin that is rooted out. Pride is the worst sin. It is the most secret of all sins. There is no other matter in which the heart is more deceitful and unsearchable. Alas, how much pride the best have in their hearts! Pride is God’s most stubborn enemy! There is no sin so much like the devil as pride. It is a secret and subtle sin, and appears in a great many shapes which are undetected and unsuspected."
- Jonathan Edwards
When a man in distress cries for pity, what more suitable plea as this: for he is moved to mercy towards us by nothing in us but the miserableness of our case. He doth not pity sinners because they are worthy, but because they need his pity.
Some links and quotes that caught my eye this week.
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A great mental health strategy: focus on what is happening today. Trying to fix yesterday or worrying about tomorrow robs you of the peace God wants you to have. Check out the full series of mental health strategies I shared here. I have lots of new content every week, which you can check out on my YouTube channel.
“Compromise and commitment cannot coincide. … Conviction leads to commitment,…
O falso cristão parece limpo e claro a seus próprios olhos. O verdadeiro cristão, ao contrário, conhece o seu próprio coração, sente que é um grande pecador.
Spiritual pride is very apt to suspect others, but a humble saint is most jealous of himself. He is as suspicious of nothing in the world as he is of his own heart. The spiritually proud person is apt to find fault with other saints…and to be quick to notice their deficiencies. But the eminently humble Christian has so much to do at home, and sees so much evil in his own heart, and is so concerned about it, that he is not apt to be very busy with other hearts… Pure Christian humility disposes a person to take notice of everything that is good in others, and to make the most of it, and to diminish their failings, but to give his eye chiefly on those things that are bad in himself.
Jonathan Edward’s argument goes like this. A crime is more or less heinous according to the obligation it violates. Is there an infinite obligation to obey someone? Then I become infinitely guilty if I disobey. Now, our obligation to obey anyone is proportionate to his worthiness, authority, and honorableness. God is infinitely so, therefore crimes against him are a violation of infinite obligation. Such crimes are infinitely heinous. They deserve infinite punishment. ~ Joni Eareckson Tada
not what i usually post, but here’s a timelapse of a project i did for an early american lit class !! (finished piece under the cut)
i’m a big fan of puritan literature because those guys really had some issues. have my rendition of how it felt to read sinners in the hands of an angry god from jonathan edwards