If by excessive labor we die before reaching the average age of man, worn out in the Master's service, then glory be to God. We shall have so much less of earth and so much more of heaven. It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus.
Our prayers are the shadows of mercy.
God is with us, and His power is around us.
Victory needs conflict as its preface.
There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.
We think that we do well to be angry with the rebellious, and so we prove ourselves to be more like Jonah than Jesus.
We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel. Man's fall, his need of a new birth, forgiveness through atonement, and salvation as the result of faith, these are our battle-ax and weapons of war.
Obedience is the highest practical courage.
You have need to pray to God, not only to help you in your troubles--but to help you in your blessings
Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own. You need to read. . . . We are quite persuaded that the very best way for you to be spending your leisure time, is to be either reading or praying. You may get much instruction from books which afterwards you may use as a true weapon in your Lord and Master’s service. Paul cries, “Bring the books” — join in the cry.
The business of the believer with his Bible open is to pray, 'Lord, give me the meaning and spirit of your word, while it lies open before me; apply your word with power to my soul, threatening or promise, doctrine or precept, whatever it may be; lead me into the soul and marrow of your word.'
Every sufferer who bears pain, or slander, or loss, or personal unkindness for Christ’s sake, is filling up that amount of suffering which is necessary to the bringing together of the whole body of Christ, and the upbuilding of His elect Church.
No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.
No scene in sacred history ever gladdens the soul like the scene on Calvary. Nowhere does the soul find such consolation as on that very spot where misery reigned, where woe triumphed, where agony reached its climax.
Now let us find solace in the finished work of our Lord Jesus. Everything is fully done: justice demands no more.
There should be a parallel between our supplications and our thanksgivings. We ought not to leap in prayer, and limp in praise.
We are certain that there is forgiveness, because there is a Gospel, and the very essence of the Gospel lies in the proclamation of the pardon of sin.
True prayer is the trading of the heart with God, and the heart never comes into spiritual commerce with the ports of heaven until God the Holy Ghost puts wind into the sails and speeds the ship into its haven.
I am content to live and die as the mere repeater of Scriptural teaching - as a person who has thought out nothing and invented nothing - but who concluded that he was to take the message from the lips of God to the best of his ability and simply to be a mouth for God to the people. - mourning much that anything of his own should come between - but never thinking that he was somehow to refine the message or to adapt it to the brilliance of this wonderful century and then to hand it out as being so much his own that he might take some share of the glory of it.
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.
Ah! dear friend, you little know the possibilities which are in you.
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
An ill life will effectually drown the voice of the most eloquent ministry.
I believe that when Paul plants and Apollos waters, God gives the increase; and I have no patience with those who throw the blame on God when it belongs to themselves.
He who does not long to know more of Christ, knows nothing of him yet.
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