You must be made miserable before you can know true Christian joy. Indeed the real trouble with the miserable Christian is that he has never been truly made miserable because of conviction of sin. He has by-passed the essential preliminary to joy, he has been assuming something that he has no right to assume.
~Martyn Lloyd-Jones

If we have a mind to know whether a building stands strong or not, we must look upon it when the wind blows. If we would know whether a staff be strong, or a rotten, broken reed, we must observe it when it is leaned on and weight is borne upon it.
~Jonathan Edwards

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.
~George Whitefield

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.
~Dwight L. Moody

When a man and a woman give themselves to each other in an act of marital love, they can know the love of Christ as no one else can know it.
~J. Vernon McGee

Psalm 4:7-8
Thou hast put gladness in my heart, more than in the time that their corn and their wine increased.
I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for Thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.

John 1:1-2
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
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