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.
The ‘means of grace’ are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord’s Supper.
When I speak of a man growing in grace, I mean simply this – that his sense of sin is becoming deeper, his faith stronger, his hope brighter, his love more extensive, his spiritual mindedness more marked.
Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.
Hell itself is truth known too late.
Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct.
All converted people should labor to adorn the doctrine they profess by humility. If they can do nothing else, they can strive to be humble.
We must be holy, because this is the only sound evidence that we have a saving faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
The harvest of the Lord’s field is seldom ripened by sunshine only. It must go through its days of wind, rain and storm.
Blessed are they who feel like pilgrims and strangers in this life, and whose best things are all to come!
The surest mark of true conversion is humility.
The Christianity that saves is a thing personally grasped, personally experienced, personally felt and personally possessed.
Election is always to sanctification. Where there is no visible fruit of sanctification, we may be sure there is no election.
Sicknesses, losses, crosses, anxieties and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful and spiritual-minde d. They are as needful as the pruning knife to the vine and the refiner’s furnace to the gold.
The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.
The person that goes regularly and intelligently to the Lord’s Table finds it increasingly hard to yield to sin and conform to the world.
The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.
We are evidently no friends of Satan. Like the kings of this world, he wars not against his own subjects. The very fact that he assaults us should fill our minds with hope.