The business of the believer with his Bible open is to pray, ‘Lord, give me the meaning and spirit of your word, while it lies open before me; apply your word with power to my soul, threatening or promise, doctrine or precept, whatever it may be; lead me into the soul and marrow of your word.’
Affliction is the best book in a minister’s library.
When all else is changing within and around, in God and His mercy no change can be found.
Jehovah is the great Miracle Maker, the unrivaled Wonder worker. None can be likened unto Him, He is alone in wonderland, the Creator and Worker of true marvels, compared with which all other remarkable things are as child’s play.
I am convinced that there is no great distance between heaven and earth, that the distance lies in our finite minds. When the Beloved visits us in the night, He turns our chambers into the vestibules of His palace halls. Earth rises to heaven when heaven comes down to earth.
Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared for the next.
Do what you may, strive as earnestly as you can, live as excellently as you please, make what sacrifices you choose, be as eminent as you can for everything that is lovely and of good repute, yet none of these things can be pleaseing to God unless they be mixed with faith.
He casts our sins behind His back, He blots them out; He says that though they be sought for, they shall not be found.
Hope sees a crown in reserve, mansions in readiness, and Jesus Himself preparing a place for us, and by the rapturous sight she sustains the soul under the sorrows of the hour.
If you rest on the finished work of Jesus you have already the best evidence of your salvation in the world; you have God’s word for it; what more is needed?
People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.
The ungodly are not half so restrained in their blasphemy as we are in our praise.
Patience, then, believer, eternity will right the wrongs of time.
Beware of self-righteousness. The black devil of licentiousness destroys his hundreds, but the white devil of self-righteousness destroys his thousands.
We should shun ingratitude, and live daily in the heavenly atmosphere of thankful love.
The Law cuts into the core of the evil, it reveals the seat of the malady, and informs us that the leprosy lies deep within.
We hold that man is never so near grace as when he begins to feel he can do nothing at all.
Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant.
If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus.
Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.