Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.
I had rather be in hell with Christ, than be in heaven without him.
There are some of us who think to ourselves, ‘If I had only been there! How quick I would have been to help the Baby. I would have washed His linen. How happy I would have been to go with the shepherds to see the Lord lying in the manger!’ Why don’t we do it now? We have Christ in our neighbor.
A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.
If I fail to spend two hours in prayer each morning, the devil gets the victory through the day. I have so much business I cannot get on without spending three hours daily in prayer.
You should point to the whole man Jesus and say, That is God.
Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.
It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor.
I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his face, and tell him that through God I am more than a match for him.
Here I stand; I can do no other.
All laws and philosophy merely tell us what should be done, but they do not provide the strength to do it.
It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word of God!
Lord, grant that anger or other bitterness does not reign over us, but that your grace, genuine kindness, loyalty, and every kind of friendliness, generosity, and gentleness may reign in us. Amen.
Remove Christ from the Scriptures and there is nothing left.
Pray like it all depends on God, then when you are done, go work like it all depends on you.
Let all the ‘free-will’ in the world do all it can with all its strength; it will never give rise to a single instance of ability to avoid being hardened if God does not give the Spirit, or of meriting mercy if it is left to its own strength.
Let Christ’s righteousness and grace, not yours, be your refuge.
God wants our conscience to be certain and sure that it is pleasing to Him. This cannot be done if the conscience is led by its own feelings, but only if it relies on the Word of God.
The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that he sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding.
Let us not flutter too high, but remain by the manger and the swaddling clothes of Christ, ‘in whom dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.’