It costs something to be a real Christian, according to the standard of the Bible. There are enemies to be overcome, battles to be fought, sacrifices to be made, an Egypt to be forsaken, a wilderness to be passed through, a cross to be carried, a race to be run. Conversion is not putting a person in an arm-chair and taking them easily to heaven. It is the beginning of a mighty conflict, in which it costs much to win the victory.
Beware of manufacturing a God of your own: a God who is all mercy, but not just; a God who is all love, but not holy; a God who as a heaven for every body, but a hell for none; a God who can allow good and bad to be side by side in time, but will make no distinction between good and broad in eternity. Such a God is an idol of your own, as truly an idol as any snake or crocodile in an Egyptian temple. The hands of your own fancy and sentimentality have made him. He is not the God of the Bible, and beside the God of the Bible there is no God at all.
If you love Christ, never be ashamed to let others see it and know it. Speak for Him. Witness for Him. Live for Him.
Prosperity is a great mercy, but adversity is a greater one, if it brings us to Christ.
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.
We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ's steps, and let the world say what it likes.
Do nothing that you would not like God to see. Say nothing you would not like God to hear. Write nothing you would not like God to read. Go no place where you would not like God to find you. Read no book of which you would not like God to say, "Show it to Me." Never spend your time in such a way that you would not like to have God say, "What are you doing?
Read the Bible daily. Make it part of your everyday business to read and meditate on some portion of God's Word. Gather your manna fresh every morning. Choose your own seasons and hours. Do not scramble over and hurry your reading. Give your Bible the best, and not the worst, part of your time. But whatever plan you pursue, let it be a rule of your life to visit the throne of grace and the Bible every day.
Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.
If you want to find out how much someone loves you, find out how much they pray for you.
It is not hard to deceive ministers, relatives and friends. But it is impossible to deceive Christ.
Just as the telescope and microscope show us that there is order and design in all the works of God's hand, from the greatest planet down to the least insect, so does the Bible teach us that there is wisdom, order, and design in all the events of our daily life. There is no such thing as 'chance', 'luck', or 'accident' in the Christian journey through this world.
Prayer is the mightiest weapon that God has placed in our hands.
Since Satan can't destroy the gospel, he has too often neutralized its usefulness by addition, subtraction or substitution.
Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.
Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully.
A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.
It is neglect of the Bible which makes so many a prey to the first false teacher whom they hear.
Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
The Word of God is ROCK. All else is sand.
Our prayers may be weak, stammering, and poor in our eyes. But if they come from a right heart, God understands them. Such prayers are His delight.
If we are true Christians, we must not expect everything smooth in our journey to heaven. We must count it no strange thing, if we have to endure sicknesses, losses, bereavements, and disappointments, just like other men. Free pardon and full forgiveness, grace along the way, and glory at the endall this our Savior has promised to give. But He has never promised that we shall have no afflictions.
According to the men of the world, few are going to hell; According to the Bible, few are going to heaven.
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