Sin and Hell are married unless repentance proclaims the divorce.
Have your heart right with Christ, and he will visit you often, and so turn weekdays into Sundays, meals into sacraments, homes into temples, and earth into heaven.
When God accepts a sinner, He is, in fact, only accepting Christ. He looks into the sinner's eyes, and He sees His own dear Son's image there, and He takes him in.
When your will is God's will, you will have your will.
When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes and finds shutters all coated with iron and bolted inside. At last he sees a little window in a chamber. He cannot get in, so he puts a little boy in, that he may go round and open the back door. So the devil has always his little sins to carry about with him to go and open back doors for him, and we let one in and say, 'O, it is only a little one.' Yes, but how that little one becomes the ruin of the entire man!
It is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you.
Right is right though all condemn, and wrong is wrong though all approve.
My entire theology can be condensed into four words, 'JESUS DIED FOR ME'.
The Gospel is like a caged lion. It does not need to be defended, it just needs to be let out of its cage.
You cannot preach conviction of sin unless you have suffered it. You cannot preach repentance unless you have practiced it. You cannot preach faith unless you have exercised it. True preaching is artesian; it wells up from the great depths of the soul. If Christ has not made a well within us, there will be no outflow from us.
I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer.
There is an essential difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death comes to the ungodly man as a penal infliction, but to the righteous as a summons to his Father's palace. To the sinner it is an execution, to the saint an undressing from his sins and infirmities. Death to the wicked is the King of terrors. Death to the saint is the end of terrors, the commencement of glory.
It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.
Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. The spade of trouble digs the reservoir of comfort deeper, and makes more room for consolation.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
God helps those who cannot help themselves.
Be deaf, be blind, be dead to gossip, and it will grow disgusted with you and select a more sensitive victim.
Defend the Bible? I'd sooner defend a lion. You don't defend the Bible; you open its cage and let it roar.
Avoid a sugared gospel as you would shun sugar of lead. Seek the gospel which rips up and tears and cuts and wounds and hacks and even kills, for that is the gospel that makes alive again. And when you have found it, give good heed to it. Let it enter into your inmost being. As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul.
I heard the story of a man, a blasphemer...an atheist, who was converted singularly by a sinful action of his. He had written on a piece of paper, "God is nowhere," and ordered his child to read it, for he would make him an atheist too. The child spelled it, "God is n-o-w h-e-r-e. God is now here." It was a truth instead of a lie, and the arrow pierced the man's own heart.
Every Christian man has a choice between being humble and being humbled.
Come boldly, 'O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, thou art greatly beloved.
If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.
Patience! patience! You are always in a hurry, but God is not.
The child of God knows his good works do not make him acceptable to God, for he was acceptable to God by Jesus Christ long before he had any good works.
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