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Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us.
Man's extremity is God's opportunity.
My soul is of more value than ten thousand worlds.
Grace makes the promise and providence the payment.
Where there is no want, there is usually much wantonness.
Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.
That which begins not with prayer, seldom winds up with comfort.
Jesus Christ is in every way sufficient to the vast desires of the soul.
The soul of the poorest child is of equal dignity with the soul of Adam.
The Providence of God is like Hebrew words-it can be read only backwards.
Observed duties maintain our credit; but secret duties maintain our life.
What, at peace with the Father and at war with the children? It cannot be.
They that know God will be humble. They that know themselves cannot be proud.
We are not distinguished from brutes by our senses, but by our understanding.
A hot iron, though blunt, will pierce sooner than a cold one, though sharper.
Scripture knows no other way to glory, but Christ put on and applied by faith.
Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God.
It is better to be as low as hell with a promise, than in Paradise without one.
To see a man humble under prosperity is one of the greatest rarities in the world.
When God gives you comforts, it is your great evil not to observe His hand in them.
One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.
God's unspotted faithfulness never failed any soul that durst trust himself in its arms.
Christ is so in love with holiness, that at the price of His blood He will buy it for us.
The law sends us to Christ to be justified, and Christ sends us to the law to be regulated.
Jesus, our head, is already in heaven; and if the head be above water, the body cannot drown.
Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul.
Christ comes with kingly power, to rescue sinners, as a prey from the mouth of the terrible one.
If time be a ring of gold, opportunity is the rich diamond that gives it both its value and glory.
The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness.
Oh sirs, deal with sin as sin, and speak of heaven and hell as they are, and not as if you were in jest.
Brethren, it is easier to declaim against a thousand sins of others, than to mortify one sin in ourselves.
As God did not at first choose you because you were high, He will not now forsake you because you are low.
No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering, and the most comfortable way of dying.
For the infinite glorious Creator of all things, to become a creature, is a mystery exceeding all human understanding.
Christ's resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it.
That soul is dead to which the Spirit of Christ is not given in the work of regeneration; and all its works are dead works.
Let all Arminians know: we have as high an esteem for faith as any men in the world, but yet we will not rob Christ to clothe faith.
Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.
The heart of a Christian, like the moon, commonly suffers an eclipse when it is at the full, and that by the interposition of the earth.
The carnal person fears man, not God. The strong Christian fears God, not man. The weak Christian fears man too much, and God too little.
The Lord's supper is memorative, and so it has the nature and use of a pledge or token of love, left by a dying to a dear surviving friend.
He is bread to the hungry, water to the thirsty, a garment to the naked, healing to the wounded; and whatever a soul can desire is found in Him.
What a mercy was it to us to have parents that prayed for us before they had us, as well as in our infancy when we could not pray for ourselves!
Regeneration expresses those supernatural, divine, new qualities imparted by the Spirit to the soul, which are the principle of all holy action.
He feels all our sorrows, needs, and burdens as his own. That is why it is said that the sufferings of believers are called the sufferings of Christ.
The opening of your hearts to receive the Lord Jesus Christ is not a work done by any power of your own, but the arm of the Lord is revealed therein.
No repentance, obedience, self-denial, prayers, tears, reformation or ordinances, without the new creation, avail any thing to the salvation of thy soul.
When our needs are permitted to grow to an extremity, and all visible hopes fail, then to have relief given wonderfully enhances the price of such a mercy
Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.
