Naked we came upon earth, and naked we go forth, and of all our possessions, we can carry nothing with us.
Where no visible fruit can be found, there you may be sure is no conversion.
What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference, in nineteen cases out of twenty, arises from different habits about private prayer. I believe that those who are not eminently holy pray little, and those who are eminently holy pray much.
He does not regard the quantity of faith, but the quality. He does not measure its degree, but its truth. He will not break any bruised reed, nor quench any smoking flax. He will never let it be said that any perished at the foot of the cross.
Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.
Do you wish to grow in grace and be a holy Christian? Then never forget the value of prayer.
Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to preach the Gospel.
When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right.
The beginning of the way to heaven, is to feel that we are on the way to hell.
Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God.
Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith’s stamp on real silver and gold – it is one of the marks of a converted man.
No prayers can be heard which do not come from a forgiving heart.
Men fall in private long before they fall in public.
The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.
Let us be real, honest, and sincere in our Christianity. We cannot deceive an all-seeing God.
There is more to be learned at the foot of the Cross than anywhere else in the world.
If you want to warm a church, put a stove in the pulpit.
Let us never forget that our chief danger is from within. The world and the devil combined, cannot do us as much harm as our own hearts will, if we do not watch and pray.
Churches may decay and perish; riches may make themselves wings and fly away-but he who builds their happiness on Christ crucified and union with Him by faith, that person is standing on a foundation which shall never be moved, and will know something of true peace.
The brightest saint is the man who has the most heart-searching sense of his own sinfulness, and the liveliest sense of his own complete acceptance in Christ.