We live in an age when there is a false glare on the things of time and a great mist over the things of eternity.
But if there is one thing clearly and plainly laid down about election, it is this: that elect men and women may be known and distinguished by holy lives.
Of all the doctrines of the Bible none is so offensive to human nature as the doctrine of God’s sovereignty.
Assurance of hope is more than life, it is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty.
So long as you do not quarrel with sin, you will never be a truly happy man.
The best of men are only men at their very best. Patriarchs, prophets, and apostles, – martyrs, fathers, reformers, puritans, – all are sinners, who need a Savior: holy, useful, honorable in their place – but sinners after all.
The cause of Christ does not need less working, but it does need among the workers, more praying.
The devil has more knowledge than any of us, and yet is no better for it.
I must honestly declare my conviction that, since the days of the Reformation, there never has been so much profession of religion without practice, so much talking about God without walking with Him, so much hearing God’s words without doing them...
Young men, I beseech you earnestly, beware of pride. Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world- one is a young man that is humble, and the other is an old man that is content. I fear that this is only too true.
God has linked holiness and happiness; and what God has joined together we must not think to put asunder.
Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.
What could an unsanctified man do in Heaven, if by any chance he got there? Let that question be fairly looked in the face and fairly answered. No man can possibly be happy in a place where he is not in his element and where all around him is not congenial to his tastes, habits and character.
Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition.
If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His existence in history they cannot deny. How is it that without force or bribery, without arms or money, He has made such an immensely deep mark on the world as He certainly has?
Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But all over the world, wherever there are Christians, in one way or another Christmas is kept.
To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.
Growth in grace is one way to be happy in our religion. God has wisely linked together our comfort and our increase in holiness.
The doctrine of Christ crucified is the strength of a Minister. I, for one, would not be without it for all the world.
There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the authentic reality that called itself Christianity in the beginning.