"Anyone who thinks he can live the Christian life himself is just proclaiming that he is not a Christian."
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
“At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men’s sin, and wonders whether one should use force or humble love. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that, once and for all, you may subdue the whole world. Loving humility is marvelously strong, the strongest of all things, and there is nothing else like it.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
One of Jonathan Edwards resolutions, written in 1722, when he was just 19 years old:
“I frequently hear persons in old age say how they would live, if they were to live their lives over again: Resolved, That I will live just so as I can think I shall wish I had done, supposing I live to old age.”
Acts 13:16–23:
Men of Israel and you who fear God, listen.
17 The God of this people Israel chose our fathers and made the people great during their stay in the land of Egypt, and with uplifted arm he led them out of it.
18 And for about forty years he put up with them in the wilderness.
19 And after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them their land as an inheritance.
20 All this took about 450 years. And after that he gave them judges until Samuel the prophet.
21 Then they asked for a king, and God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, for forty years.
22 And when he had removed him, he raised up David to be their king, of whom he testified and said, ‘I have found in David the son of Jesse a man after my heart, who will do all my will.’
23 Of this man’s offspring God has brought to Israel a Savior, Jesus, as he promised.
“According to the vision of the founders of Harvard College, ‘Everyone shall consider the main end of his life and studies to know God in Jesus Christ.’’—Iain Murray
“Jesus is always being falsely accused, and there is never a time when he is not being accused.… He is still silent in the face of this and does not answer with his own voice. But he makes his defense in the lives of his genuine disciples, for their lives cry out the real facts and defeat all false charges.” —Origen
"Two quick ways to disaster are to take nobody’s advice and to take everybody’s advice."
"Holy Scripture is not written as a text to be swiftly consumed and digested; you cannot “have read” Holy Scripture, but must always be in the process of reading, rereading, and chewing it over."
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/bible-studies/warning-the-bible-is-not-just-a-book
Ola E. Winslow, biographer of Jonathan Edwards, wrote:
“‘If he had a secret, it somehow concerned his own capacity for such delight in God, while he still had his feet on New England earth.”
"The flesh loves excitement. It is always ready to jump and run somewhere. It hurries us into action. The Holy Spirit does not. Satan rushes men. God leads them."
F. B. Meyer
And Miriam sang to them: “Sing to the LORD, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and his rider he has thrown into the sea.” (Exodus 15:21)
many people let their hearts direct them. that's not wise. The Bible describes our hearts like this.. 
Rivendell Platypus
12 miles in 50°
Glorious!
