Jack McBride’s Reviews > Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices > Status Update

"We have all things in Christ, and Christ is all things to a Christian...
If we be sick, he is a physician;
if we thirst, he is a fountain;
if our sins trouble us, he is righteousness;
if we stand in need of help, he is mighty to save;
if we fear death, he is life;
if we be in darkness, he is light;
if we be weak, he is strength;
if we be in poverty, he is plenty;
if we desire heaven, he is the way."

"Sin may rebel, but it shall never reign in a saint."

"The more the soul is filled with the fullness of God and enriched with spiritual and heavenly things, the less room there is in that soul for vain thoughts. The fuller the vessel is of wine, the less room there is for water. Oh, then, lay up much of God, of Christ, of precious promises, and choice experiences in your hearts, and then you will be less troubled with vain thoughts."

"Ah, what a sea of blood, of wrath, of sin, of sorrow and misery, did the Lord Jesus wade through for your internal & eternal good! Christ did not plead, this cross is too heavy for me to bear; this wrath is too great for me to lie under; this cup, [with] all the ingredients of divine displeasure, is too bitter for me; No, Christ pleads not the difficulty of the service, but resolutely and bravely wades through all"

"Where one thousand are destroyed by the world's frowns, ten thousand are destroyed by the world's smiles...The honours, splendour & all the glory of this world, are but sweet poisons, that will much endanger us...Tell me, you that say all things under the sun are vanity, if you do really believe what you say, why do you spend more thoughts and time on the world, than you do on Christ, heaven & your immortal souls?"

Device #9:
"By presenting to the soul the crosses, losses, reproaches, sorrows, and sufferings that do daily attend those that walk in the ways of holiness."

Remedy #2:
"Socrates said of his enemies, 'They may kill me, but they cannot hurt me.' So afflictions may kill us, but they cannot hurt is; they may take away my life, but they cannot take away my God, my Christ, my crown."

Speaking of using God's mercy as license for sin:

"To argue from mercy to sinful liberty is the devil's logic...this is wickedness at the height, for a man to be very bad, because God is very good. ...To render good for evil is divine, to render good for good is human, to render evil for evil is brutish; but to render evil for good is devilish; and from this evil deliver my soul, O God."

"That a man is indeed, which he is in temptation."

One of those quotes you have to meditate upon...