The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must ‘plead guilty’ before God can declare us innocent.
To be prayerless is to be without God, without Christ, without grace, without hope, and without heaven.
No person ever thought too much of Christ.
There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.
Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just. Such a God is an idol of your own.
Never let us be guilty of sacrificing any portion of truth on the altar of peace.
There is no fickleness about Jesus: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.
The only way to be really happy in such a world as this, is to be ever casting all our cares on God.
It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.
Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.
If you do not love Christ, let me plainly tell you what is the reason: You have no sense of debt to Him.
Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible-reading.
Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.
Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.
Look to the cross, think of the cross, meditate on the cross, and then go and set your affections on the world if you can.
Millions of people profess and call themselves Christians, whom the Apostle Paul would not have called Christians at all.
God knew what we were before conversion – wicked, guilty, and defiled; yet He loved us. He knows what we will be after conversion – weak, erring, and frail; yet He loves us.
We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
A saved soul has many sorrows. They have their share of bereavements, deaths, disappointments, crosses. What shall enable a believer to bear all this? Nothing but the consolation there is in Christ.
How can we love sin, when we remember that because of our sins Jesus died?