Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there.
You have need to pray to God, not only to help you in your troubles – but to help you in your blessings.
It would be very difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship; for when the soul is overwhelmed with the majesty of God’s glory, though it may not express itself in song, or even utter its voice with bowed head and humble prayer, yet it silently adores.
To pretend to trust Christ to save you from sin while you are still determined to continue in it is making a mockery of Christ.
It is a remarkable fact that all the heresies which have arisen in the Christian Church have had a decided tendency to dishonor God and to flatter man.
Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater.
I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law.
Opposition to divine sovereignty is essentially atheism.
Suffering saints are living seed.
By all means read the Puritans, they are worth more than all the modern stuff put together.
If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.
The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can ever engage the attention of a child of God, is the name, the nature, the person, the work, the doings, and the existence of the great God whom he calls his Father.
God works all things together for your good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship towards the port.
The love of Jesus is the source of salvation. He loves, he looks, he touches us, we live.
Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.
The child of God works not for life, but from life; he does not work to be saved, but works because he is saved.
God’s law is our pleasure when the God of the law is our God.
When it is the Lord’s work in which we rejoice, we need not be afraid of being too glad.
Blood, always precious, is priceless when it streams from Immanuel’s side.
Oh, for five hundred Elijahs, each one upon his Carmel, crying unto God, and we should soon have the clouds bursting into showers. Oh, for more prayer, more constant, incessant prayer! Then the blessing would rain upon us.