Curses are like chickens, they always come home to roost.
If you are renewed by grace, and were to meet your old self, I am sure you would be very anxious to get out of his company.
The bridge of grace will bear your weight, brother. Thousands of big sinners have gone across that bridge, yea, tens of thousands have gone over it. Some have been the chief of sinners and some have come at the very last of their days but the arch ha...
There is no physician like Him, none can save as He can; we love Him, and He loves us, and therefore we put ourselves into His hands, accept whatever he prescribes, and do whatever He bids.We feel that nothing can be wrongly ordered while He is the d...
If the Lord Jehovah makes us wait, let us do so with our whole hearts; for blessed are all they that wait for Him. He is worth waiting for. The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the...
When you speak of heaven, let your face light up... When you speak of hell well then, your everyday face will do.
Ought we not to look upon our own history as being at least as full of God, as full of His goodness and of His truth, as much a proof of His faithfulness and veracity, as the lives of any of the saints who have gone before? We do our Lord an injustic...
Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.
Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.
Humility is to make a right estimate of oneself.
The wide awake man seizes opportunities or makes them, and thus those who are widest awake usually come to the front.
A sense of the divine presence and indwelling bears the soul towards heaven as upon the wings of eagles.
A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will.
The more objects you set your heart upon, the more thorns there are to tear your peace of mind to shreds.
Affliction hardens those whom it does not soften.
Would to God we were all Christians who profess to be Christians, and that we lived up to what we profess. Then would the Christian shine forth “clear as the sun, fair as the moon,” and what besides—why, “amazing as an army with banners”! A...
God grant, if we must have two eyes, that they may be both clear ones, one the eye of faith wholly fixed on Christ, the other the eye of obedience equally and wholly fixed on the same objective!
You never require a teacher to lead you into the wrong path, but you do require a kindly word to conduct you aright.
carve your name on hearts and not on marble.
Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works, especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible.
In all I have ever done for Him, you have a large share. For in making me so happy you have fitted me for service. Not an ounce of power has ever been lost to the good cause through you. I have served the Lord far more, and never less, for your sweet...
