The best prayer I ever prayed had enough sin to damn the whole world.
If people really see that Christ has removed the fear of punishment from them by taking it into Himself, they won’t do whatever they want, they’ll do whatever He wants.
Our sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.
The truths that I know best I have learned on my knees. I never know a thing well, till it is burned into my heart by prayer.
Whatever contradicts the Word of God should be instantly resisted as diabolical.
If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance; for the want of repentance after one has sinned makes the heart yet harder and harder.
And, indeed, this is one of the greatest mysteries in the world; namely, that a righteousness that resides in heaven should justify me, a sinner on earth!
Doth Jesus Christ stand up to plead for us with God, to plead with him for us against the devil? Let this teach us to stand up to plead for him before men, to plead for him against the enemies of his person and gospel.
The best prayers have often more groans than words.
He that is down needs fear no fall. He that is low, no pride; He that is humble, ever shall have God to be his Guide.
Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised.
He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.
Christians are like the several flowers in a garden that have each of them the dew of heaven, which, being shaken with the wind, they let fall at each other’s roots, whereby they are jointly nourished, and become nourishers of each other.
I have often thought that the best Christians are found in the worst of times.
There hath not one tear dropped from thy tender eye against thy lusts, the love of this world, or for more communion with Jesus Christ, but as it is now in the bottle of God.
The road of denial leads to the precipice of destruction.
No man, without trials and temptations, can attain a true understanding of the Holy Scriptures.
Hope is never ill when faith is well.
No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.