It is thoroughly Scriptural and right to say “faith alone justifies.” But it is not equally Scriptural and right so say “faith alone sanctifies.

Sin and the devil will always find helpers in our hearts.

We know nothing of humility by nature, for we are all born proud.

Surely if there be any habit which your own hand and eye should help in forming, it is the habit of prayer.

Prosperity is a great mercy, but adversity is a greater one, if it brings us to Christ.

Let us learn to be patient in the days of darkness, if we know anything of vital union with Christ.

Meekness is one of the brightest graces which can adorn the Christian character.

The harvest of the Lord’s field is seldom ripened by sunshine only. It must go through its days of wind, rain and storm.

We never know who they are that God will draw, and have nothing to do with it. Our duty is to invite all, and leave it to God to choose the vessels of mercy.

The Bible alone gives a true and faithful account of man. It does not flatter him as novels and romances do; it does not conceal his faults and exaggerate his goodness, it paints him just as he is.

A zealous man feels that like a lamp he is made to burn; and if consumed in burning, he has but done the work for which God appointed him. Such a one will always find a sphere for his zeal. If he cannot preach and work and give money, he will cry and sigh and pray.

When I speak of a man growing in grace, I mean simply this – that his sense of sin is becoming deeper, his faith stronger, his hope brighter, his love more extensive, his spiritual mindedness more marked.

The chief end for which Christ lived and died: To provide eternal redemption for sinners.

Fear puts an end to openness of manner; fear leads to concealment; fear sows the seed of much hypocrisy, and leads to many a lie.

Make it a part of every day’s business to read and meditate on some portion of God’s Word. Private means of grace are just as needful every day for our souls as food and clothing are for our bodies.

The cause of Christ does not need less working, but it does need among the workers, more praying.

The rulers of the earth plan, and scheme, and make laws, and change laws, and war, and pull down one, and raise up another. But they little think that they rule only by the will of Jesus, and that nothing happens without the permission of the Lamb of God.

That preaching is sadly defective which dwells exclusively on the mercies of God and the joys of heaven, yet never sets forth the terrors of the Lord and the miseries of hell.

Nothing so hardens the heart of man as a barren familiarity with sacred things.

The beginning of the way to heaven, is to feel that we are on the way to hell.

We corrupt the Word of God most dangerously, when we throw any doubt on the plenary inspiration of any part of Holy Scripture.

Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished.

If you and sin are friends, you and God are not yet reconciled.

Nothing perhaps affects man’s character more than the company he keeps.

Ignorance of Scripture is the root of every error in religion, and the source of ever heresy. To be allowed to remove a few grains of ignorance, and to throw a few rays of light on God’s precious word, is, in my opinion, the greatest honor that can be put on a Christian.

There is but one fountain of comfort for a man drawing near to his end, and that is the Bible … All comfort from any other source is a house built upon sand.

The true cure for self-righteousness is self-knowledge.

When you cannot answer a skeptic, be content to wait for more light; but never forsake a great principle.

Am I honest? Am I sincere? Do I really desire first the praise of God?

There must not only be good preaching, but good hearing.

Growth in grace is one way to be happy in our religion. God has wisely linked together our comfort and our increase in holiness.

No man can die unless Jesus opens the mystic door of death.

There is no fickleness about Jesus: those whom He loves, He loves to the end.

People are backsliders on their knees long before they backslide openly in the eyes of the world.

Live as if you thought that Christ might come at any time.

A saved soul has many sorrows. They have their share of bereavements, deaths, disappointments , crosses. What shall enable a believer to bear all this? Nothing but the consolation there is in Christ.

True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience.

Faith in the Lord Jesus is the only sure medicine for troubled hearts.

The blood of Christ can cleanse away all sin. But we must ‘plead guilty’ before God can declare us innocent.

The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.

I declare I know no state of soul more dangerous than to imagine we are born again and sanctifiied by the Holy Spirit, because we have picked up a few religious feelings.

The only way to be really happy in such a world as this, is to be ever casting all our cares on God.

There are eternal consequences resulting from all our thoughts, words and actions, of which we take far too little account.

The love of our Lord Jesus Christ towards sinners is strikingly shown in His steady purpose of heart to die for them.

Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.

What is the cause of most backslidings? I believe, as a general rule, one of the chief causes is neglect of private prayer.

I maintain that to tell a person they are born again, while they are living in carelessness or sin, is a dangerous delusion.

The Gospel was not meant merely to reside in our intellect, memories, and tongues, but to be seen in our lives.

Are you tempted? Look unto Jesus. Are you afflicted? Look unto Jesus. Do all speak evil of you? Look unto Jesus. Do you feel cold, dull, and backsliding? Look unto Jesus.

There will be no universal peace until the Prince of Peace appears.

Let us strive, every year we live, to become more deeply acquainted with Scripture.

If you do not love Christ, let me plainly tell you what is the reason: You have no sense of debt to Him.

Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.

Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.

A crucified Savior will never be content to have a self-pleasing, self-indulging, worldly-minded people.

O Christian, look up and take comfort. Jesus has prepared a place for you, and those who follow Him shall never perish, neither shall anyone pluck them out of His hands.

Next to praying there is nothing so important in practical religion as Bible-reading.

Your trials, crosses, and conflicts are all temporary.

True Christians delight to read the Scriptures, because they tell them about their beloved Savior.

A Christian is nothing more than a sinner who has found out their sinfulness, and has learned the blessed secret of living by faith in Christ.

A man may just as soon read the Scripture without eyes, as understand the spirit of it without grace.

He that would be conformed to Christ’s image, and become a Christ-like man, must be constantly studying Christ Himself.

All the simplicity in the world can do no good, unless you preach the simple gospel of Jesus Christ so fully and clearly that everybody can understand it. If ‘Christ crucified’ has not His rightful place in your sermons, and sin is not exposed as it should be, and your people are not plainly told what they ought to believe, and be, and do – your preaching is of no use!

A humble and prayerful person will find a thousand things in the Bible, which the proud student will utterly fail to discern.

The fear of punishment, the desire of reward, the sense of duty, are all useful arguments, in their way, to persuade people to holiness. But they are all weak and powerless, until a person loves Christ.

The very sermon that we needlessly miss, may contain a precious word in season for our souls.

Go to the cross of Christ, all you that want to be delivered from the power of selfishness.

It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.

I believe it to be clear evidence of the Spirit’s presence when the Word of God is really precious to a person’s soul.

The parent who tries to train without setting a good example is building with one hand, and pulling down with the other.

Never be satisfied with the world’s standard of Christianity!

Walk more closely with God. Get nearer to Christ. Seek to exchange hope for assurance. Seek to feel the witness of the Spirit more closely and distinctly every year. Lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily threatens you. Press towards the mark more earnestly. Fight a better fight, and war a better warfare every year you live. Pray more. Read more. Subdue self more. Love the brethren more. Oh that you may endeavor to grow in grace every year, that the end of your Christian course may be better than the beginning.

True Christianity is not merely believing a certain set of dry abstract propositions: it is to live in daily personal communication with an actual living person – Jesus Christ.

Conversion is not putting a man in an armchair and taking him easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.

The reason why the Christians in this day are at such a loss as to some things is that they are contented with what comes from man’s mouth, without searching and kneeling before God to know of Him the truth of things.

Sanctification is the outcome and inseparable consequence of regeneration. He who is born again and made a new creature receives a new nature and a new principle and always lives a new life.

Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But all over the world, wherever there are Christians, in one way or another Christmas is kept.

Necessity is laid upon us. We must fight. There are no promises in the Lord Jesus Christ’s epistles to the seven churches, except to those who ‘overcome.’ Where there is grace, there will be conflict. The believer is a soldier. There is no holiness without a warfare. Saved souls will always be found to have fought a fight.

The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.

There is a vast quantity of religion current in the world which is not true, genuine Christianity. It passes muster, it satisfies sleepy consciences; but it is not good money. It is not the authentic reality that called itself Christianity in the beginning.

There is a common worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have, and think they have enough. This cheap Christianity . . . offends nobody, requires no sacrifice, costs nothing, and is worth nothing!

That sin will never stand firm which is heartily prayed against….We must spread out all our case before our heavenly Physician, if He is to give us daily relief.

Be wise in time. What youth sows, old age must reap….Sow to yourself rather in righteousness: break up your fallow ground, sow not among thorns.

It is bad enough to be unconverted and going to hell. It is even worse to say, “I know it and will not cry for mercy.”

Sin, in short, is that vast moral disease which affects the whole human race, of every rank and class and name and nation and people and tongue, a disease from which there never was but one born of woman that was free. Need I say that One was Christ Jesus the Lord?

Sanctifying faith is a grace of which the very life is action: it “worketh by love,” and, like a main-spring, moves the whole inward man. (Gal. v. 6.)

For my part I am persuaded the more light we have, the more we see our own sinfulness: the nearer we get to heaven, the more we are clothed with humility.

Never be ashamed of letting men see that you want to go to heaven. Do not think it a disgrace to show that you are a servant of God. Never be afraid of doing what is right.

Prayer and temptation, the Bible and meditation, make a true minister of the gospel.

We can never hear too much about Jesus Christ.

A holy violence, a conflict, a warfare, a fight, a soldier’s life, a wrestling, are spoken of as characteristic of the true Christian.

The love of Christ to sinners is the very essence and marrow of the Gospel.

The greater are our affections the deeper are our afflictions, and the more we love the more we have to weep.