Daily bread may make us live comfortably but forgiveness of sins will make us die comfortably.
What is the duty which God requireth of man? Obedience to his revealed will. It is not enough to hear God’s voice, but we must obey. Obedience is a part of the honour we owe to God.
He who does not believe God’s promises – will never love him.
Though God is the fountain of grace – yet the saints are the pipes which transmit the living streams to others.
To have a thankful heart for deliverance is a greater blessing than the deliverance itself.
Christians are condemned who profess to own God for their God and yet do not live as if he were their God.
He who is called of God, walks directly contrary to what he did before.
To compare other things with God, is to debase Deity; as if you should compare the shining of a glow-worm with the sun. 3.
He who loves money is not weary of telling it: and he who loves God is not weary of serving him.
Christ was born of a virgin, that we might be born of God. He took our flesh, that He might give us His Spirit. He lay in the manger that we might lie in paradise. He came down from heaven, that He might bring us to heaven. And what was all this but love? If our hearts be not rocks, this love of Christ should affect us. Behold, love that surpasses knowledge!
None can do as God; he brought the world out of nothing; ‘And hangeth the earth upon nothing.’ Job 26: 7.
As children grow older, the care of parents grows greater. They are afraid of their children falling when young, and of worse than falls when they are older.
O let us look to our ends in obedience; it is possible the action may be right, and not the heart.
Many Christians are like sieves. Put a sieve into the water, and it is full; but take it out of the water, and it all runs out. So, while they are hearing the sermon, they remember something of value. But, like the sieve, as soon as they have left the church, all is forgotten.
Men think it a shame to be ignorant of their trade – but no shame to be ignorant of God. There is no going to heaven blindfold.
The more helpful we are to others, the more like we are to God.
A Christian without meditation is like a soldier without weapons, or a workman without tools.
The Lord hates that which is forced; which is paying a tax rather than an offering.
He that leaves off prayer leaves off to fear God.
The tree of the promise will not drop its fruit unless shaken by the hand of prayer.