The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.
There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.
This is the mystery of the riches of divine grace for sinners; for by a wonderful exchange our sins are now not ours but Christ’s, and Christ’s righteousness is not Christ’s but ours.
We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.
As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.
The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.
To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.
Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want.
To gather with God’s people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
We are but the instruments or assistants, by whom God works.
He who loves not wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long.
Grace is given to heal the spiritually sick, not to decorate spiritual heroes.
All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word.
This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident.
Prayer is a strong wall and fortress of the church; it is a goodly Christian weapon.
If we Christians would join the Wise Men, we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the despised and foolish things, help the poor, comfort the despised, and aid the neighbor in his need.
In his life Christ is an example showing us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.
The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.
Resolved: that every man should live to the glory of God. Resolved second: that whether others do this or not I will.
When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, ‘Repent,’ he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance.