Often doubts will prevail. What a mercy it is that it is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you! What a sweet fact that it is not how you grasp His hand, but His grasp of yours that saves you.
The Word of God is a lamp by night, a light by day, and a delight at all times.
Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.
When you speak of heaven, let your face light up; let it be irradiated by a heavenly gleam; let your eyes shine with reflected glory. But when you speak of hell, your ordinary expression will do.
Periodical godliness is perpetual hypocrisy.
No man can put on the robes of Christ’s righteousness till he has taken off his own.
When you have no helpers, see your helpers in God. When you have many helpers, see God in all your helpers. When you have nothing but God, see all in God. When you have everything, see God in everything. Under all conditions, stay thy heart only on the Lord.
Faith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ.
The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home-a moment will bring us there.
There is nothing so deluded as feelings. Christians cannot live by feelings. Let me further tell you that many feelings are the work of Satan, for they are not right feelings. What right have you to set up your feelings against the Word of Christ?
Let your tears fall because of sin, but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of man.
A child of five, if properly instructed, can, as truly believe, and be regenerated, as an adult.
Nothing can damn a man but his own righteousness; nothing can save him but the righteousness of Christ.
Before any great achievement, some measure of depression is very usual.
Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always courageous, and the joyous not always happy.
There is no fatigue so wearisome as that which comes from lack of work.
Every generation needs regeneration.
There, poor sinner, take my garment, and put it on; you shall stand before God as if you were Christ, and I will stand before God as if I had been the sinner; I will suffer in the sinner’s stead, and you shall be rewarded for works that you did not do, but which I did for you.
It is well for us that, amidst all the variableness of life, there is One whom change cannot affect; One whose heart can never alter, and on whose brow mutability can make no furrows.
Train your child in the way in which you know you should have gone yourself.