In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.

Our hope in Christ for the future is the mainspring and the mainstay of our joy down here today.

There must be a divorce between you and sin, or there can be no marriage between you and Christ.

Unless you have forgiven others you read your own death warrant when you repeat the Lord's Prayer

Darkness is the fit hour for beasts of prey, and ignorance the natural dwelling place of cruelty.

Do you not realize that the love the Father bestowed on the perfect Christ He now bestows on you?

A sinner can no more repent and believe without the Holy Spirit's aid than he can create a world.

Jesus has borne the death penalty on our behalf. Behold the wonder! There He hang upon the cross!

An unkind heart is the worst. It is a plague to its possessor, and a torment to those around him.

You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything but Christ.

Earnestness is good; it means business. But fanaticism overdoes, and is consequently reactionary.

Nearness to God brings likeness to God. The more you see God the more of God will be seen in you.

The man who, despite the teaching of Scripture, tries to pray without a Savior, insults the deity.

Inconsistent professing Christians injure the Gospel more than the sneering critic or the heretic.

It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time.

A thrifty housewife is better than a great income. A good wife and health are a man's best wealth.

Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell.

None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.

Faith obliterates time, annihilates distance, and brings future things at once into its possession.

God has given no pledge which He will not redeem, and encouraged no hope which He will not fulfill.

One might better try to sail the Atlantic in a paper boat, than try to get to heaven on good works.

Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

The best way to live above all fear of death is to die every morning before you leave your bedroom.

Man was made in the image of God, and nothing will satisfy man but God, in whose image he was made.

The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news.

The Christian is the most contented man in the world, but he is the least contented with the world.

If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.

Calvinism did not spring from Calvin. We believe that it sprang from the great Founder of all truth.

If we give God service it must be because He gives us grace. We work for Him because He works in us.

To Christ we are to be always coming; upon Him always relying; to His precious blood always looking.

I would not give much for your religion unless it can be seen. Lamps do not talk, but they do shine.

A world where everything was easy would be a nursery for babies, but not at all a fit place for men.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark. A mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats.

If your creed and Scripture do not agree, cut your creed to pieces, but make it agree with this book.

Let me revel in this one thought: before God made the heavens and the earth, He set His love upon me.

The friend of God must not spend a day without God, and he must undertake no work apart from his God.

I will not believe that thou hast tasted of the honey of the gospel if thou canst eat it all thyself.

Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake, for praying is a saving of time.

Preach not calmly and quietly as though you were asleep, but preach with fire and pathos and passion.

From all the afflictions, Your glory shall spring. And the deeper the sorrow, the louder you'll sing.

I do not know when I am more perfectly happy than when I am weeping for sin at the foot of the cross.

Prayer irrigates the fields of life with the waters which are stored up in the reservoirs of promise.

I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain.

However little we may be, if we are the Lord's, we may rejoice that we are preserved in Christ Jesus.

He that reads his Bible to find fault with it will soon discover that the Bible finds fault with him.

Jesus Christ does not save the worthy, but the unworthy. Your plea must not be righteousness but guilt

A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.

It does not spoil your happiness to confess your sin. The unhappiness is in not making the confession.

You have need to pray to God, not only to help you in your troubles--but to help you in your blessings

Nothing that man can present to God by way of sacrifice can ever purchase the blessing of forgiveness.

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