Christ also takes from us all inclination or power to boast of our national prestige. To me, it is prestige enough to be a Christian – to bear the cross Christ gives me to carry and to follow in the footsteps of the great Crossbearer.
Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world.
My soul, never laugh at sin’s fooleries, lest thou come to smile at sin itself. It is thine enemy, and thy Lord’s enemy.
Every promise of Scripture is a writing of God, which may be pleaded before Him with this reasonable request, ‘Do as Thou hast said.’ The Heavenly Father will not break His Word to His own child.
True humility is a flower which will adorn any garden.
Sir, usually I do preach for souls, but my orphans cannot eat souls. And if they could, it would take four souls the size of yours to make a square meal for just one orphan!
We are not responsible to God for the souls that are saved, but we are responsible for the Gospel that is preached, and for the way in which we preach it.
Newspapers are the Bibles of worldlings. How diligently they read them! Here they find their law and profits, their judges and chronicles, their epistles and revelations.
Bread is a second cause; the LORD Himself is the first source of our sustenance. He can work without the second cause as well as with it; and we must not tie Him down to one mode of operation. Let us not be too eager after the visible, but let us look to the invisible God.
Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the kingdom.
I would rather believe a limited atonement that is efficacious for all men for whom it was intended, than a universal atonement that is not efficacious for anybody, except the will of men be added to it.
We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.
Don’t rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables.
Only he is fit to preach who cannot avoid preaching, who feels that woe is upon him unless he preach the gospel.
Hell itself does not contain greater monsters of iniquity than you and I might become. Within the magazine of our hearts there is power enough to destroy us in an instant, if omnipotent grace did not prevent.
Jesus poured out his soul in life before he poured it out unto death.
When filled with holy truth the mind rests.
Everything is a trifle to a man who is a Christian except the glorifying of Christ.
There is no university for a Christian, like that of sorrow and trial.
There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.