I do not know if there is a more dreadful word in the English language than that word “lost.”
The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.
Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.
That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass – deadly to the incautious wayfarer.
Never was the victory of patience more complete than in the early church. The anvil broke the hammer by bearing all the blows that the hammer could place upon it. The patience of the saints was stronger than the cruelty of tyrants.
All places are places of worship to a Christian. Wherever he is, he ought to be in a worshiping frame of mind.
The more we pray, the more we shall want to pray. The more we pray, the more we can pray. The more we pray, the more we shall pray. He who prays little will pray less, but he who prays much will pray more. And he who prays more, will desire to pray more abundantly.
I ascribe my change wholly to God.
Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.
If God does not save men by truth, he certainly will not save them by lies. And if the old gospel is not competent to work a revival, then we will do without the revival.
We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel. Man’s fall, his need of a new birth, forgiveness through atonement, and salvation as the result of faith, these are our battle-ax and weapons of war.
It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus. We are not to be living specimens of men in fine preservation, but living sacrifices, whose lot is to be consumed.
A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind’s face would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best.
The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world. He is like a traveler in an inn, perfectly satisfied with the inn and its accommodation, considering it as an inn, but putting quite out of all consideration the idea of making it his home.
God has a way of giving by the cartloads to those who give away by shovelfuls.
Whatever may be said about the doctrine of election, it is written in the Word of God as with an iron pen, and there is no getting rid of it.
If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.
Final perseverance is the necessary evidence of genuine conversion.
He who fears God has nothing else to fear.
Whenever there is a cross to be carried by any of Christ’s followers, He always bears the heavy end on His own shoulders.