Prayer needs neither learning, wisdom or book knowledge to begin it. It needs nothing but heart and will.
Since Satan can’t destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.
There is only one door, one bridge, one ladder, between earth and heaven – the crucified Son of God.
Let us daily strive to copy our Saviour’s humility.
Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.
Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.
Pride is the oldest and most common of sins. Humility is the rarest and most beautiful of graces.
I declare I know no state of soul more dangerous than to imagine we are born again and sanctifiied by the Holy Spirit, because we have picked up a few religious feelings.
Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.
HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly hatred.
Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.
Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
Do we profess to love Christ? Then let us show it by our lives.
Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.
Laughter, ridicule, opposition and persecution are often the only reward which Christ’s followers get from the world.
Christ’s death is the Christian’s life. Christ’s cross is the Christian’s title to heaven. Christ “lifted up” and put to shame on Calvary is the ladder by which Christians “enter into the holiest,” and are at length landed in glory.
The love of the Bible will show itself in a believer’s actions.
Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.
Children are very quick observers; very quick in seeing through some kinds of hypocrisy, very quick in finding out what you really think and feel, very quick in adopting all your ways and opinions. You will often discover that, as the father is, so is the son.