The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace.
Nothing makes a man so virtuous as belief of the truth. A lying doctrine will soon beget a lying practice. A man cannot have an erroneous belief without by-and-by having an erroneous life. I believe the one thing naturally begets the other.
The more holy, the more humble.
Not for yourself, O church, do you exist, any more than Christ existed for himself.
FAITH untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is without trials.
None but God would ever have thought of justifying me. I am a wonder to myself.
I would not give much for your religion unless it can be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine.
We often forget that the author of our faith must be the finisher of it also.
It is blessed to eat into the very soul of the Bible until, at last, you come to talk in Scriptural language, and your spirit is flavored with the words of the Lord, so that your blood is Bibline and the very essence of the Bible flows from you.
If Christ be anything, He must be everything.
Like Jonah, you may lose your gourd, but you cannot lose your God.
Child of God, you cost Christ too much for him to forget you.
Don’t go where it is all fine music and grand talk and beautiful architecture; those things will neither fill anybody’s stomach, nor feed his soul. Go where the gospel is preached, the gospel that really feeds your soul, and go often.
Fine music without devotion is but a splendid garment upon a corpse.
Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it.
So long as we are receivers of mercy, we must be givers of thanks.
Little learning and much pride come of hasty reading.
I would sooner bring one sinner to Jesus Christ than unravel all the mysteries of the divine Word, for salvation is the one thing we are to live for.
Calvinism did not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth.
If there is any verse that you would like left out of the Bible, that is the verse that ought to stick to you, like a blister, until you really attend to its teaching.