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There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.
Remember this, had any other condition been better for you than the one in which you are, divine love would have put you there.
To pretend to trust Christ to save you from sin while you are still determined to continue in it is making a mockery of Christ.
Your emptiness is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the making ready for your lifting up.
I do believe we slander Christ when we think we are to draw the people by something else but the preaching of Christ crucified.
A true prayer is an inventory of needs, a catalog of necessities, an exposure of secret wounds, a revelation of hidden poverty.
That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.
Great thoughts of your sin alone will drive you to despair; but great thoughts of Christ will pilot you into the haven of peace.
One night alone in prayer might make us new men, changed from poverty of soul to spiritual wealth, from trembling to triumphing.
You cannot make a sinner into a saint by killing him. He who does not live as a saint here will never live as a saint hereafter.
The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.
Does the world satisfy thee? Then thou hast thy reward & portion in this life; make much of it, for thou shalt know no other joy
We shall not adjust our Bible to the age; but before we have done with it, by God’s grace, we shall adjust the age to the Bible.
Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.
Whatever call a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry.
If there is one doctrine I have preached more than another, it is the doctrine of the Perseverance of the Saints even to the end.
Let each one of us, if we have done nothing for Christ, begin to do something now. The distribution of tracts is the first thing.
Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches.
Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.
We know that God's being is perfect, His essence infinite, His dominion absolute, His power unlimited, and His glory transcendent.
The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.
Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.
Time was when they that feared the Lord spake often to one another; I am afraid that now they more often speak one against another.
If I were a Roman Catholic, I should turn a heretic, in sheer desperation, because I would rather go to heaven than go to purgatory.
I know of nothing which I would choose to have as the subject of my ambition for life than to be kept faithful to my God till death.
Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past.
You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.
Don't drown the man who taught you to swim. If you learned your trade or profession from the man, do not set up in opposition to him.
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.
Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art.
The granting of prayer, when offered in the name of Jesus, reveals the Father's love to him, and the honor which he has put upon him.
I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned.
The Providence of God is the great protector of our life and usefulness, and under the divine care we are perfectly safe from danger.
You will always know whether you are delivered from the guilt of sin by answering this question: Am I delivered from the love of sin?
There is no physician like Him, none can save as He can; we love Him, and He loves us, and therefore we put ourselves into His hands.
Oh that I could have the cross painted on my eyeballs, that I could not see anything except through the medium of my Savior’s passion!
Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts?
The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.
The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.
If God be near a church, it must pray. And if he be not there, one of the first tokens of his absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.
True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is a spiritual commerce with the Creator of heaven and earth.
Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!
The faith which saves is not one single act done on a certain day: it is an act continued and persevered in throughout the life of man.
He incurs a fearful amount of guilt who in the least promotes the aim of the Evil One by trampling upon a tender conscience in a child.
A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy.
He who has felt his own ruin will not imagine the case of any to be hopeless; nor will he think them too fallen to be worthy his regard.
Faith is believing that Christ is what he is said to be, and that he will do what he has promised to do, and then to expect this of him.
FAITH untried may be true faith, but it is sure to be little faith, and it is likely to remain dwarfish so long as it is without trials.
The angels did not merely sin and lose heaven, but they passed beyond all other beings in sin and made themselves fit denizens for hell.
Make the most of prayer. ... Prayer is the master-weapon. We should be wise if we used it more, and did so with a more specific purpose.