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He casts our sins behind His back, He blots them out; He says that though they be sought for, they shall not be found.
I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.
The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer.
A child of God should be a visible beatitude for joy and happiness, and a living doxology for gratitude and adoration.
The Lord Jesus is a deep sea of joy; my soul shall dive therein, shall be swallowed up in the delights of his society.
To preach the gospel is to stae every doctrine contained in God's word, and to give every truth its proper prominence.
Has Jesus saved me? I dare not speak with any hesitation here; I know He has. His Word is true; therefore, I am saved.
The grandest discourse ever delivered is an ostentatious failure if the doctrine of the grace of God be absent from it.
There is nothing in the law of God that will rob you of happiness; it only denies you that which would cost you sorrow.
Want of will causes paralysis of every faculty. In spiritual things man is utterly unable because resolvedly unwilling.
Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.
Has there not been, sometimes, this temptation to do a great deal for Christ, but not to live a great deal with Christ?
If we be married to Christ, and He be jealous of us, depend upon it this jealous husband will let none touch His spouse.
My soul, never laugh at sin's fooleries, lest thou come to smile at sin itself. It is thine enemy, and thy Lord's enemy.
It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.
God will not be absent when His people are on trial; he will stand in court as their advocate, to plead on their behalf.
Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.
Satan does not care whether he drags you down to hell as a Calvinist or as an Arminian, so long as he can get you there.
Every man who loses everlasting life rejects it himself. God denies it not to him-he will not come that he may have life.
To wash and dress a corpse is a far different thing from making it alive: Man can do the one--God alone can do the other.
If Christ be anything he must be everything. O rest not till love and faith in Jesus be the master passions of your soul!
If you profess to be a Christian, yet find full satisfaction in worldly pleasures and pursuits, your profession is false.
Whenever there is a cross to be carried by any of Christ’s followers, He always bears the heavy end on His own shoulders.
I believe that in public worship we should do well to be bound by no human rules, and constrained by no stereotyped order.
Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence .
When I cease to preach salvation by faith in Jesus put me into a lunatic asylum, for you may be sure that my mind is gone.
There is no injustice in the grace of God. God is as just when He forgives a believer as when He casts a sinner into hell.
I thought I could have leaped from earth to heaven at one spring when I first saw my sins drowned in the Redeemer's blood.
When fathers are tongue tied religiously with their offspring, need they wonder if their children's hearts remain sin tied?
If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.
But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences.
Prayers are heard in heaven in proportion to our faith. Little faith gets very great mercies, but great faith still greater.
God could not have given this promise, except from love and grace; therefore it is quite certain his Word will be fulfilled.
Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.
Far better for a man that he had never been born than that he should degrade a pulpit into a show box to exhibit himself in.
The Law cuts into the core of the evil, it reveals the seat of the malady, and informs us that the leprosy lies deep within.
I am throwing all my good works overboard, and lashing myself to the plank of free grace; for I hope to swim to glory on it.
Do not try to make the gospel tasteful to carnal minds. Do not hide the offense of the cross, lest you make it of no effect.
For there is some danger of falling into a soft and effeminate Christianity, under the plea of a lofty and ethereal theology.
I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.
Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool.
If you will tell me when God permits a Christian to lay aside his armour, I will tell you when Satan has left off temptation.
He bequeaths us His manger, from which to learn how God came down to man, and His cross to teach us how man may go up to God.
Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.
However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.
Come boldly, 'O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, thou art greatly beloved.
Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.
When Jesus died on the cross the veil in the temple was torn from top to bottom so that big sinners like me might fit through.
Nonsense is nonsense whether it rhymes or not, just as bad half-pennies are good for nothing whether they jingle or lie quiet.
There is such a thing as 'thanks-feeling' - feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.