I am persuaded that men think there is no God because they wish there were none. They find it hard to believe in God, and to go on in sin, so they try to get an easy conscience by denying his existence.
Free grace can go into the gutter, and bring up a jewel!
If the giving of the Law, while it was yet unbroken, was attended with such a display of awe-inspiring power, what will that day be when the Lord shall, with flaming fire, take vengeance on those who have willfully broken that Law?
Every Christian has a choice between being humble or being humbled.
Whatever subject I preach, I do not stop until I reach the Savior, the Lord Jesus, for in Him are all things.
God’s children are God’s children anywhere and everywhere, and shall be even unto the end. Nothing can sever that sacred tie, or divide us from his heart.
He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it.
There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.
The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.
If your creed and Scripture do not agree, cut your creed to pieces, but make it agree with this book.
If you will not have death unto sin, you shall have sin unto death. There is no alternative. If you do not die to sin, you shall die for sin. If you do not slay sin, sin will slay you.
When God accepts a sinner, He is, in fact, only accepting Christ. He looks into the sinner’s eyes, and He sees His own dear Son’s image there, and He takes him in.
Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.
Men will allow God to be everywhere except on his Throne.
The moment we glorify ourselves, since there is room for one glory only in the universe, we set ourselves up as rivals to the Most High.
Patience! patience! You are always in a hurry, but God is not.
Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion.
As long as a man is alive and out of hell, he cannot have any cause to complain.
The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds.
The word of God is always most precious to the man who most lives upon it.