When a person’s tongue is extensively wrong, it is absurd, no less than unscriptural, to say that their heart is right.
Let us serve Him faithfully as our Master. Let us obey Him loyally as our King. Let us study His teachings as our Prophet. Let us work diligently after Him as our Example. Let us look anxiously for Him as our coming redeemer of body as well as soul. But above all let us prize Him as our Sacrifice, and rest our whole weight on His death as atonement for sin. Let His blood be more precious in our eyes every year we live. Whatever else we glory in about Christ, let us glory above all things in His cross.
The man who has nothing more than a kind of Sunday religion -- whose Christianity is like his Sunday clothes put on once a week, and then laid aside -- such a man cannot, of course, be expected to care about growth in grace.
To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.
Troublous times, departures from the faith, evil men waxing worse and worse, love waxing cold, are things distinctly predicted.
True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience.
I want people to fill their minds with passages of Scripture while they are well and strong, that they may have sure help in the day of need. I want them to be diligent in studying their Bibles, and becoming familiar with its contents, in order that the grand old Book may stand by them and talk with them when all earthly friends fail.
There are very few errors and false doctrines of which the beginning may not be traced up to unsound views about the corruption of human nature. Wrong views of the disease will always bring with them wrong views of the remedy. Wrong views of the corruption of human nature will always carry with them wrong views of the grand antidote and cure of that corruption.
The love of the Bible will show itself in a believer's actions.
The best of men are men at best
If you profess to be a child of God, leave it to the Lord Jesus to sanctify you in His own way.
The minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man.
How can we love sin, when we remember that because of our sins Jesus died?
The incorruptible things are all within the narrow gate. The peace of God which passed all understanding - the bright hope of good things to come - the sense of the Spirit dwelling in us - the consciousness that we are forgiven, safe, insured, provided for in time and eternity, whatever may happen - these are true gold, and lasting riches.
The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.
Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord...He waits quietly for the King.
Doctrine is useless if it is not accompanied by a holy life. It is worse than useless; it does positive harm. Something of 'the image of Christ' must be seen and observed by others in our private life, and habits, and character, and doings.
Millions of people profess and call themselves Christians, whom the Apostle Paul would not have called Christians at all.
We must wrestle earnestly in prayer, like men contending with a deadly enemy for life.
People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.
The beginning of the way to heaven, is to feel that we are on the way to hell.
Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.
Christ is never fully valued, until sin is clearly seen.
We are all naturally self-righteous. It is the family disease of all the children of Adam.
Christ's death is the Christian's life. Christ's cross is the Christian's title to heaven. Christ "lifted up" and put to shame on Calvary is the ladder by which Christians "enter into the holiest," and are at length landed in glory.
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