The Puritans were accustomed to explain faith by the word ‘recumbency.’ It meant leaning upon a thing. Lean with all your weight upon Christ. It would be a better illustration still if I said, fall at full length, and lie on the Rock of Ages.
Song of God and Son of Man, there He hangs, bearing pains unutterable, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God.
Inconsistent professors are the greatest stumbling blocks to the spread of the cause of Christ!
He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments.
The preaching of Christ is the whip that flogs the devil. The preaching of Christ is the thunderbolt, the sound of which makes all hell shake.
A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration.
Do not despair, dear heart, but come to the Lord with all your jagged wounds, black bruises, and running sores. He alone can heal, and He delights to do it. It is our Lord’s office to bind up the brokenhearted, and He is gloriously at home at it.
The moment the church of God shall despise the pulpit, God will despise her.
What, for some, is sin, others do to the glory of God. And the good Dr. Pentecost’s remarks notwithstanding, I intend to go home tonight and smoke a cigar to the glory of God. It is a kind of incense drifting to Heaven.
If your religion does not make you holy, it will damn you. It is simply painted pageantry to go to hell in.
I long for nothing more earnestly than to serve God with all my might.
Is it not a sad thing that after all Christ’s love to us, we should repay it with lukewarm love to Him?
It is not the strength of your faith that saves you, but the strength of Him upon whom you rely! Christ is able to save you if you come to Him-be your faith weak or be it strong.
After faith comes repentance, or, rather, repentance is faith’s twin brother and is born at the same time.
Be sure, whatever you leave out, that you teach the children the three R’s,-Ruin, Redemption, and Regeneration.
Oh, to have “the word of Christ” always dwelling inside of us;-in the memory, never forgotten; in the heart, always loved; in the understanding, really grasped; with all the powers and passions of the mind fully submitted to its control!
Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!
Christ did not die to make his Father loving, but because his Father is loving: the atoning blood is the outflow of the very heart of God toward us.
God grant, if we must have two eyes, that they may be both clear ones, one the eye of faith wholly fixed on Christ, the other the eye of obedience equally and wholly fixed on the same objective!
You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.
Prayer bends omnipotence of heaven to your desire. Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.