The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.
We have the truth and we need not be afraid to say so.
Prayer is the surest remedy against the devil and besetting sins.
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.
Miserable indeed is that religious teaching which calls itself Christian, and yet contains nothing of the cross.
A right knowledge of sin lies at the root of all saving Christianity.
Let it be a settled principle in our minds that the first and chief business of the Church of Christ is to preach the Gospel.
Let us watch against PRIDE in every shapepride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride in our own goodness.
Let it be a settled principle ...that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of himself.
If I never spoke of hell, I should think I had kept back something that was profitable, and should look on myself as an accomplice of the devil.
The first step towards attaining a higher standard of holiness is to realize more fully the amazing sinfulness of sin.
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 early Christians made it a part of their religion to look for His return. Backward they looked to the cross and the atonement for sin, and rejoiced in Christ crucified. Upward they looked to Christ at the right hand of God, and rejoiced in Christ interceding. Forward they looked to the promised return of their Master, and rejoiced in the thought that they would see Him again. And we ought to do the same.
To be Christian it will cost a man his love of ease.
A man's state before God may always be measured by his prayers.
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.
A tree may always be known by its fruit, and a true Christian may always be discovered by their habits, tastes & affections.
True worship leads to a more full knowledge of self, God, heaven, duty, doctrine, practice and experience.
Millions of people profess and call themselves Christians, whom the Apostle Paul would not have called Christians at all.
Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.
Meekness is one of the brightest graces which can adorn the Christian character.
The resurrection of Christ is one of the foundation stones of Christianity. It was the seal of the great work that He came on earth to do. It was the crowning proof that the ransom He paid for sinners was accepted, the atonement for sin accomplished, the head of him who had the power of death bruised, and the victory won.
The minister who keeps back hell from his people in his sermons is neither a faithful nor a charitable man.
The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.
Churches may decay and perish; riches may make themselves wings and fly away-but he who builds their happiness on Christ crucified and union with Him by faith, that person is standing on a foundation which shall never be moved, and will know something of true peace.
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