Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, but a sure trust and confidence that Christ died for my sins, that He loved me and gave Himself for me.
Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.
God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.
Any ‘Christians’ who take for themselves any more than the plain necessaries of life, live in an open habitual denial of the Lord. They have gained riches and hell-fire.
I want to know one thing: The way to Heaven. How to land safe on that happy shore.
God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it.
The best helps to growth in grace are the ill usage, the affronts, and the losses which befall us. We should receive them with all thankfulness, as preferable to all others, were it only on this account, that our will has no part therein.
Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.
Whatever the natural cause, sin is the true cause of all earthquakes.
Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.
I judge all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity.
For as long as love takes up the whole heart, what room is there for sin therein?
It is the work of God alone to justify, to sanctify, and to glorify.
My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.
My fear is not that our great movement, known as the Methodists, will eventually cease to exist or one day die from the earth. My fear is that our people will become content to live without the fire, the power, the excitement, the supernatural element that makes us great.
In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker, on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade.
We should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords.
No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity.
Giving up witchcraft is, in effect, giving up the Bible.
The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays.