If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.
The gospel is not speculation but fact. It is truth, because it is the record of a person who is the Truth.
There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond to it.
Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness.
If you would know Christ at all, you must go to Him as a sinful man, or you are shut out from Him altogether.
Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a good reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it.
No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him.
Let me always remember that it is not the amount of religious knowledge which I have, but the amount which I use, that determines my religious position and character.
The tears of Christ are the pity of God. The gentleness of Jesus is the long-suffering of God. The tenderness of Jesus is the love of God. He that hath seen me hath seen the Father.
God is His own motive. His love is not drawn out by our loveableness, but wells up, like an artesian spring, from the depths of His nature.
Every sin is a mistake, as well as a wrong; and the epitaph for the sinner is, “Thou fool!”
My child, wilt thou not at this time cry unto me, ‘Abba, Father?’
The Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct; it is not a theology to be accepted, but it is ethics to be lived. It is not to be believed only, but it is to be taken into life as a guide.
The grace of God, says Luther, “is like a flying summer shower.” It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had it, and lies barren and dry. These Asiatic coasts had it, and flung it away.
We must have Christ in our hearts, that He may shine forth from our lives.
Logically, faith comes first, and love next; but in life they will spring up together in the soul; the interval which separates them is impalpable, and in every act of trust, love is present; and fundamental to every emotion of love to Christ is trust in Christ.
Turn your confidence and your fears alike into prayer.
True peace comes not from the absence of trouble, but from the presence of God and will be deep and passing all understanding in the exact measure in which we live in and partake of the love of God.
I am satisfied, for I awake in Thy likeness.
Don’t waste your sorrows.