True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person – Jesus Christ.
God is far more willing to save sinners than sinners are to be saved.
What is the best safeguard against false doctrine? The Bible regularly read, regularly prayed over, regularly studied.
It was the whole Trinity, which at the beginning of creation said, “Let us make man”. It was the whole Trinity again, which at the beginning of the Gospel seemed to say, “Let us save man”.
The man who has nothing more than a kind of Sunday religion – whose Christianity is like his Sunday clothes put on once a week, and then laid aside – such a man cannot, of course, be expected to care about growth in grace.
Christ is never fully valued, until sin is clearly seen. We must know the depth and malignity of our disease, in order to appreciate the great Physician.
Our Lord has many weak children in his family, many dull pupils in his school, many raw soldiers in his army, many lame sheep in his flock. Yet he bears with them all, and casts none away. Happy is that Christian who has learned to do likewise with his brethren.
Never be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!
Let us learn to be patient in the days of darkness, if we know anything of vital union with Christ.
Inability to distinguish doctrine is spreading far and wide, and so long as the preacher is “clever” and “earnest,” hundreds seem to think it must be all right, and call you dreadfully “narrow and uncharitable” if you hint that he is unsound!
Let us receive nothing, believe nothing, follow nothing which is not in the Bible, nor can be proved by the Bible.
We never know who they are that God will draw, and have nothing to do with it. Our duty is to invite all, and leave it to God to choose the vessels of mercy.
Troublous times, departures from the faith, evil men waxing worse and worse, love waxing cold, are things distinctly predicted.
There is a common, worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough-a cheap Christianity which offends nobody, and requires no sacrifice-which costs nothing, and is worth nothing.
The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.
No salvation without regeneration – no spiritual life without a new birth – no heaven without a new heart.
The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.
The temple in which the Lord Jesus delights most, is a broken and contrite heart, renewed by the Holy Spirit.
Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.