Thus there will be three effects of nearness to Jesus humility, happiness, and holiness.
Men will never be great in theology until they are great in suffering.
It is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you.
God alone can do what seems impossible. This is the promise of his grace: 'I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten' (Joel 2:25). God can give back all those years of sorrow, and you will be the better for them. God will grind sunlight out of your black nights. In the oven of affliction, grace will prepare the bread of delight. Someday you will thank God for all your sadness.
If any man thinks ill of you, do not be angry with him, for you are worse than he thinks you to be.
The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it.
Defend the Bible? I'd sooner defend a lion. You don't defend the Bible; you open its cage and let it roar.
My friends, it is one thing to go to church or chapel; it is quite another thing to go to God.
Every growth of spiritual life, from the first tender shoot until now, has been the work of the Holy Spirit.... The only way to more life is the Holy Spirit. You will not even know that you want more unless He works in you to desire it.... The Spirit of God must come and make the letter alive, transfer it to your heart, set it on fire, and make it burn within you, or else its divine force and majesty will be hid from your eyes.... Prayer is the creation of the Holy Spirit. We cannot do without prayer, and we cannot pray without the Holy Spirit.
Hold everything earthly with a loose hand, but grasp eternal things with a death-like grip
Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree. Look up to the cross, and you will kill sin, for the strength of Jesus' love will make you strong to put down your tendencies to sin.
Avoid a sugared gospel as you would shun sugar of lead. Seek the gospel which rips up and tears and cuts and wounds and hacks and even kills, for that is the gospel that makes alive again. And when you have found it, give good heed to it. Let it enter into your inmost being. As the rain soaks into the ground, so pray the Lord to let his gospel soak into your soul.
Morality may keep you out of jail, but it takes the blood of Jesus Christ to keep you out of hell.
Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.
You cannot preach conviction of sin unless you have suffered it. You cannot preach repentance unless you have practiced it. You cannot preach faith unless you have exercised it. True preaching is artesian; it wells up from the great depths of the soul. If Christ has not made a well within us, there will be no outflow from us.
Wherever Jesus may lead us, He goes before us. If we don't know where we are going, we know with whom we go.
Evil things are easy things: for they are natural to our fallen nature. Right things are rare flowers that need cultivation.
If God lights the candle, none can blow it out.
To trust God in the light is nothing, but trust him in the dark-that is faith.
You and your sins must separate, or you and your God will never come together.
Jesus wept, but He never complained.
God does not need your strength: he has more than enough of power of his own. He asks your weakness: he has none of that himself, and he is longing, therefore, to take your weakness, and use it as the instrument in his own mighty hand. Will you not yield your weakness to him, and receive his strength?
When joy and prayer are married, their first born child is gratitude.
When your will is God's will, you will have your will.
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
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