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Growth In Grace: Quotations from Burning Words

The highest point of Christian experience is to press forward. It is a distinguishing trait in the character of every good man that he grows in grace. Grace in the heart as certainly improves and advances, as a tree thrives in a kindly and well watered soil.— GARDINER SPRING

It is not my strength that grows, so much as God's strength in me, which is given more abundantly as the days roll. It is so given on one condition. If my faith has laid hold of the infinite, the exhaustless, the immortal energy of God, unless there is something fearfully wrong about me, I shall be getting purer, nobler, wiser, more observant of His will; gentler, like Christ; every way fitter for His service, and for larger service, as the days increase.— ALEXANDER MACLAREN

Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.— RUTHERFORD

The vendors of flowers in the streets of London are wont to commend them to customers by crying: "All a blowing and a growing." It would be no small praise to Christians if we could say as much for them.— C. H. SPURGEON

In proportion as we "grow in grace and in the knowledge of Christ," we shall grow in the desire that the Redeemer's sovereignty may be more widely and visibly extended.— HENRY MELVILL

There is no such way to attain to greater measures of grace, as for a man to live up to that little grace he has. -— THOMAS BROOKS

It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.— THOMAS BROOKS

All growth that is not towards God is growing to decay. If you have nothing of the spirit of prayer, nothing of the love of the brotherhood, nothing of mortifying the spirit of the world, nothing of growth in grace, of cordial, habitual, persevering obedience to the Divine commands, how can it be that you have been brought nigh by the blood of Christ?— GARDINER SPRING

May we grow more and more like God and heaven, more gracious, helpful, and sweet-minded; and when at last Thou hast served Thyself by us, may we fall asleep in Jesus, and find it no sleep, but everlasting waking in Jesus.— H. W. BEECHER