My trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, he is my righteousness.
Lord Jesus, cause me to know in my daily experience the glory and sweetness of Thy name, and then teach me how to use it in my prayer, so that I may be a prince prevailing with God.
To think that before the hills were formed, or the channels of the sea were scooped out, God loved me; that from everlasting to everlasting His mercy is upon His people. Is not that a consolation?
Too many think lightly of sin, and therefore think lightly of the Savior.
Let us measure ourselves by our Master, and not by our fellow-servants : then pride will be impossible.
The sovereign electing grace of God chooses us to repentance, to faith, and afterwards to holiness of living, to Christian service, to zeal, and to devotion.
If you would be holy, you must live close to Jesus.
From all the afflictions, Your glory shall spring. And the deeper the sorrow, the louder you’ll sing.
It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.
If I had my choice of all the blessings I can conceive of I would choose perfect conformity to the Lord Jesus, or, in one word, holiness.
The man who finds the ministry an easy life will also find that it will bring a hard death.
If God requires of the sinner, dead in sin, that he should take the first step, then he requires just that which renders salvation as impossible under the gospel as it was under the law, since man is as unable to believe as he is to obey.
It is the surest proof of man’s natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.
You will win as many souls as God gives you, but no one will be converted by your own power.
True belief and true repentance are twins: it would be idle to attempt to say which is born first. All the spokes of a wheel move at once when the wheel moves, and so all the graces commence action when regeneration is wrought by the Holy Ghost. Repentance, however, there must be.
How gentle and tender ought we to be with others who are foolish when we remember how foolish we are ourselves.
The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for grace, like light, reveals our impurity.
Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original.
Prayer is one of the necessary wheels of the machinery of providence.
True prayer is measured by weight, not by length.