It is forgiveness that sets a man working for God. He does not work in order to be forgiven, but because he has been forgiven, and the consciousness of his sin being pardoned makes him long more for its entire removal than ever he did before.
The voice from the tree did not summon them to do, but to be satisfied with what was done.
In the day of prosperity, we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only One.
Upon a life I did not live, upon a death I did not die; another’s life, another’s death, I stake my whole eternity.
It is not opinions that man needs: it is TRUTH. It is not theology; it is God. It is not religion: it is Christ. It is not literature and science; but the knowledge of the free love of God in the gift of His only-begotten Son.
I looked for the church and I found it in the world; I looked for the world and I found it in the church.
For we are not saved by believing in our own salvation, nor by believing anything whatsoever about ourselves. We are saved by what we believe about the Son of God and His righteousness. The gospel believed saves; not the believing in our own faith.
In order to grow in grace, we must be much alone. It is not in society that the soul grows most vigorously. In one single quiet hour of prayer it will often make more progress than in days of company with others. It is in the desert that the dew falls freshest and the air its purest.
I heard the voice of Jesus say.
Faith is the acknowledgment of the entire absence of all goodness in us, and the recognition of the cross as the substitute for all the want on our part. Faith saves, because it owns the complete salvation of another, and not because it contributes anything to that salvation.
We are forgiven, that we may be like Him who forgives us.
Thy way, not mine, O Lord, however dark it be; lead me by thine own hand; choose out the path for me.
Faith does not come to Calvary to do anything. It comes to see the glorious spectacle of all things done, and to accept this completion without a misgiving as to its efficacy. It listens to the It is finished! of the Sin-bearer, and says, Amen.
Think truly, and thy thoughts shall the world’s famine feed. Speak truly, and each word of thine Shall be a fruitful seed. Live truly, and thy life shall be A great and noble creed.
The soul and eternity of one man depends upon the voice of another.
The believed gospel saves; but it is the believed promise that assures us of this salvation.
Bold preaching is the only preaching that is owned of God.