Prayer is the forerunner of mercy. Turn to sacred history, and you will find that scarecely ever did a great mercy come to this world unheralded by supplication.
It is, perhaps, one of the hardest struggles of the Christian life to learn this sentence – “Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto Thy name be glory.”
Remember the man who truly repents is never satisfied with his own repentance.
We must meditate, brothers. These grapes will yield no wine we tread upon it.
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem and thine own soul shall be refreshed.
The resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is one of the best attested facts on record. There were so many witnesses to behold it, that if we do in the least degree receive the credibility of men’s testimonies, we cannot and we dare not doubt that Jesus rose from the dead.
The resurrection is a fact better attested than any event recorded in any history, whether ancient or modern.
If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation.
Where God takes such pains to teach, we ought to be at pains to learn.
I am certain that to preach the wrath of God with a hard heart, a cold lip, a tearless eye, and an unfeeling spirit is to harden men, not benefit them.
You will always know whether you are delivered from the guilt of sin by answering this question: Am I delivered from the love of sin?
If we do wrong and no harm comes of it, we are not thereby justified. If we did evil and good came of it, the evil would be just as evil. It is not the result of the action, but the action itself which God weighs.
Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.
Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance.
All good is born in prayer, and all good springs from it.
To acknowledge you were wrong yesterday is to acknowledge you are wiser today.
It is never worth while to make rents in a garment for the sake of mending them? Nor to create doubts in order to show how cleverly we can quiet them.
Prayer gives a channel to the pent-up sorrows of the soul, they flow away, and in their stead streams of sacred delight pour into the heart.
It has come to be a dreadfully common belief in the Christian Church that the only man who has a “call” is the man who devotes all his time to what is called “the ministry,” whereas all Christian service is ministry, and every Christian has a call to some kind of ministry or another.
You are engaged in a work so spiritual, so far above all human power, that to forget the Spirit is to ensure defeat.