Thousands acknowledge they are sinners, who have never mourned over the fact.
Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude – an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.
Instead of a river, God often gives us a brook, which may be running today and dried up tomorrow. Why? To teach us not to rest in our blessings, but in the blesser Himself.
In praying for His enemies not only did Christ set before us a perfect example of how we should treat those who wrong us an hate us, but He also taught us never to regard any as beyond the reach of prayer.
Grace can neither be bought, earned, or won by the creature. If it could be, it would cease to be grace.
The Bible is no lazy man’s book! Much of its treasure, like the valuable minerals stored in the bowels of the earth, only yield up themselves to the diligent seeker.
True liberty is not the power to live as we please, but to live as we ought.
It is not the absence of sin but the grieving over it which distinguishes the child of God from empty professors.
Real prayer is communion with God, so that there will be common thoughts between His mind and ours. What is needed is for Him to fill our hearts with His thoughts, and then His desires will become our desires flowing back to Him.
The gospel is not an announcement that God has relaxed his justice or lowered the standard of His holiness.
The great mistake made by most of the Lord’s people is in hoping to discover in themselves that which is to be found in Christ alone.
When we complain about the weather, we are, in reality, murmuring against God.
The measure of our love for others can largely be determined by the frequency and earnestness of our prayers for them.
Unbelief is infectious! The unbelief of one strengthens the unbelief of another, just as the faith of one strengthens the faith of another.
Our first postulate is that because God is God, He does as He pleases, only as He pleases, always as He pleases; that His great concern is the accomplishment of His own pleasure and the promotion of His own glory that He is the Supreme Being, and therefore Sovereign of the universe.
Love is the queen of all the Christain graces.
But why should we not place implicit confidence in God and rely upon His word of promise? Is anything too hard for the Lord? Has His word of promise ever failed? Then let us not entertain any unbelieving suspicions of His future care of us. Heaven and earth shall pass away, but not so His promises.
We must not forget that the issues of Eternity are settled in Time.