If you have indeed been so highly distinguished, should you not โlive no longer to yourselves, but altogether unto Him who died for you and rose again?โ Should any thing short of absolute perfection satisfy you? Should you not labour to โstand perfect and complete in all the will of God?โ
Charles SimeonOur 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 SimeonThe tender heart, the broken and contrite spirit, are to me far above all the joys that I could ever hope for in this vale of tears.
Charles SimeonJustification by faith alone, is the hinge upon which the whole of Christianity turns
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 Simeon