You cannot have Christ, if you will not serve Him.
Sin is a thing of time, but mercy is from everlasting. Transgression is but of yesterday, but mercy was ever of old. Before you and I sought the Lord, the Lord sought us.
When I thought God was hard, I found it easy to sin; but when I found God so kind, so good, so overflowing with compassion, I smote upon my breast to think that I could ever have rebelled against One who loved me so, and sought my good.
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.
In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.
The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents.
God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken; and when you cannot trace His hand, you can trust His heart.
If we give God service it must be because He gives us grace. We work for Him because He works in us.
Grace does not choose a man and leave him as he is.
Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent.
When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.
If we never have headaches through rebuking our children, we shall have plenty of heartaches when they grow up.
I believe nothing merely because Calvin taught it, but because I have found his teaching in the Word of God.
Atonement by the blood of Jesus is not an arm of Christian truth; it is the heart of it.
Conversion is a turning onto the right road. The next thing to do is to walk on it.
Depend on it, my hearer, you never will go to heaven unless you are prepared to worship Jesus Christ as God.
If any man is not sure that he is in Christ, he ought not to be easy one moment until he is sure. Dear friend, without the fullest confidence as to your saved condition, you have no right to be at ease, and I pray you may never be so. This is a matter too important to be left undecided.
Another proof of the conquest of a soul for Christ will be found in a real change of life. If the man does not live differently from what he did before, both at home and abroad, his repentance needs to be repented of and his conversion is a fiction.
As for His failing you, never dream of it – hate the thought of it. The God who has been sufficient until now, should be trusted to the end.
Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell.