If God justify a man, who shall condemn him? But if God condemn him, who shall justify him?
We may hold the world as a posy in our hand, but it must not lie too near our heart.
We pray most fervently when we pray most feelingly.
When we profess God’s name, but do not live answerably to it, we take it in vain.
The mercies of God make a sinner proud, but a saint humble.
Love is such a grace as we know not how to be without. A soldier may as well be without his weapons, an artist without his pencil, a musician without his instrument, as a Christian can be without love.
Every time we draw our breath we suck in mercy.
If we bring forth any good fruit, it is not of our own growth, it comes from him, the true vine.
Humility was never a loser.
God can turn stones into bread, and a sinner can turn bread into stones; the bread of life into the stone of stumbling.
A pagan sins less than a baptised renegade.
The Nature of True Repentance, Part 1 I shall next show what Gospel repentance is. Repentance is a grace of God’s Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed. For a further amplification, know that repentance is a spiritual medicine made up of six special ingredients: 1. Sight of sin 2. Sorrow for sin 3. Confession of sin 4. Shame for sin 5. Hatred for sin 6. Turning from sin If any one is left out, it loses its virtue.
The jewel of faith is always put in the cabinet of a good conscience.
King’s crowns are only crosses, but the cross of Christ is the only crown.
No man did ever come off a loser by his acquaintance with God.
Father, my heart, my heart; my dead heart, quicken it; my hard heart, soften it in Christ’s blood. Father, my heart, my heart.’ Surely God, who hears the cry of ravens, will hear the cry of his children!
The word preached is not only to inform you but reform you;.
The world can create trouble in peace, but God can create peace in trouble.
You may as well bid an elephant fly in the air, as a covetous man live by faith.
An upright man is always worth beholding – but then he is most to be admired when like a bright star, he shines in the dark, and having lost all, he holds fast his integrity.