Our holiness is an effect, not a cause; so long as our eyes are on our own personal whiteness as an end in itself, the thing breaks down.
Charles SimeonWith this sweet hope of ultimate acceptance with God, I have always enjoyed much cheerfulness before men; but I have at the same time laboured incessantly to cultivate the deepest humiliation before God.
Charles SimeonThat however advanced any man may 'be-in' age or piety, he is still in danger of falling.
Charles SimeonLearn, brethren, before it be too late, that โwithout Christ you can do nothing:โ that โall your fresh springs are in him:โ and โof him must your fruit be founds:โ โin him alone shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.โ
Charles Simeon