Of all the knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.
Evangelical faith has the gospel of Christ for its foundation;.
Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.
You contribute nothing to your salvation except the sin that made it necessary.
A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing. It is his great concern. As the business of the soldier is to fight, so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
They who truly come to God for mercy, come as beggars, and not as creditors: they come for mere mercy, for sovereign grace, and not for anything that is due.
When God is about to do a mighty new thing He always sets His people praying.
The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.
It is not by telling people about ourselves that we demonstrate our Christianity. Words are cheap. It is by costly, self-denying Christian practice that we show the reality of our faith.
The pleasures of humility are really the most refined, inward, and exquisite delights in the world.
He that lives a prayerless life, lives without God in the world.
If there be ground for you to trust in your own righteousness, then, all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did to prepare the way for it is in vain.
Seek not to grow in knowledge chiefly for the sake of applause, and to enable you to dispute with others; but seek it for the benefit of your souls.
God’s purpose for my life was that I have a passion for God’s glory and that I have a passion for my joy in that glory, and that these two are one passion.
Spiritual delight in God arises chiefly from his beauty and perfection, not from the blessings he gives us.
How can you expect to dwell with God forever, if you so neglect and forsake him here?
He, whose heart is fixed, trusting in Christ, need not be afraid.
True salvation always produces an abiding change of nature in a true convert. Therefore, whenever holiness of life does not accompany a confession of conversion, it must be understood that this individual is not a Christian.
Truth is the agreement of our ideas with the ideas of God.