The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are his afflictions. The regalia of the kings that God has made, are their troubles, their sorrows, and their griefs. Griefs exalt us, and troubles lift us.
The pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible if compared with them. The sweetest joys, yea, the sweetest of the sweetest falls to his portion who has God’s truth to be his heritage.
Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers grow. Cleopatra was poisoned by an asp that was brought to her in a basket of fair flowers. Sharp-edged tools, long handled, wound at last.
Give because you love to give – as the flower pours forth its perfume.
The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer.
The angels did not merely sin and lose heaven, but they passed beyond all other beings in sin and made themselves fit denizens for hell.
The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ.
If the Lord’s bearing our sin for us is not the gospel, I have no gospel to preach.
Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were good in their way once, and so were the clothes I wore when I was ten years old; but I have outgrown them. Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.
God looketh upon any thing we say, or any thing we do, and if He seeth Christ in it, He accepteth it; but if there be no Christ, He putteth it away as a foul thing.
When fathers are tongue tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children’s hearts remain sin tied?
I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the gospel if thou canst eat it all thyself.
God promises to keep His people, and He will keep His promises.
Every man needs a blind eye and a deaf ear, so when people applaud, you’ll only hear half of it, and when people salute, you’ll only see part of it. Believe only half the praise and half the criticism.
There are two sins of men that are bred in the bone and that continually come out in the flesh. One is self-dependence and the other is self-exultation.
It is not the bigness of the words you utter, but the force with which you deliver them.
To Christ we are to be always coming; upon Him always relying; to His precious blood always looking.
Suffering times are a Christian’s harvest time.
To throw the Christian into the furnace is to put him into Christ’s parlor; for lo! Jesus Christ is walking with him.
Whatever is your greatest joy and treasure, that is your god.