The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for.
When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively.
The slender capacity of man’s heart cannot comprehend the unfathomable depth and burning zeal of God’s love toward us.
The Devil fears the word of God, He can’t bite it; it breaks his teeth.
The first care of every Christian ought to be to lay aside all reliance on works, and strengthen his faith alone more and more, and by it grow in the knowledge, not of works, but of Christ Jesus, who has suffered and risen again for him.
You may as well quit reading and hearing the Word of God, and give it to the devil, if you do not desire to live according to it.
If you preach the gospel in all aspects with the exception of the issues which deal specifically with your time, you are not preaching the gospel at all.
Divinity consists in use and practice, not in speculation.
Peace if possible, truth at all costs.
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
That the Creator himself comes to us and becomes our ransom – this is the reason for our rejoicing.
Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman’s womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God.
I simply taught, preached, wrote God’s Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.
The God whom we worship is not a weak and incompetent God. He is able to beat back gigantic waves of opposition and to bring low prodigious mountains of evil. The ringing testimony of the Christian faith is that God is able.
God’s love gives in such a way that it flows from a Father’s heart, the well-spring of all good. The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious; as among ourselves we say of even a trifling gift, “It comes from a hand we love,” and look not so much at the gift as at the heart.
No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.
It is not I that smite, stab, and slay, but God and my prince, for my hand and my body are now their servants.
I’d rather see heaven crash from the skies than one grain of God’s truth die.
The kingdom of God does not consist in talk, but in power, that is, in works and practice. God loves the ‘doers of the word’ in faith and love, and not the ‘mere hearers,’ who, like parrots, have learned to utter certain expressions with readiness.