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The miracle of God went when and where His people went; it stayed when His people stopped.

It is easy to learn the doctrine of personal revival and victorious living; it is quite another thing to take our cross and plod on to the dark and bitter hill of self renunciation.

The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.

It may be said without qualification that every man is as holy and as full of the Spirit as he wants to be. He may not be as full as he wishes he were, but he is most certainly as full as he wants to be.

Yet there is considerable truth in the idea that revivals are born after midnight, for revivals (or any other spiritual gifts and graces) come only to those who want them badly enough.

Men think of the world, not as a battleground but as a playground. We are not here to fight, we are here to frolic.

The sacred-secular antithesis has no foundation in the New Testament.

Shortly after, Paul took up the cry of liberty and declared all meats clean, every day holy, all places sacred and every act acceptable to God.

It is not what a man does that determines whether his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it. The motive is everything.

For such a man, living itself will be sacramental and the whole world a sanctuary. His entire life will be a priestly ministration.

Yea, even as a grain of wheat from the sarcophagi of the Pharaohs, when again committed to the soil, bears fruit a hundredfold, so Calvinism still carries in itself a wondrous power for the future of the nations.

Calvinism has yet a blessing to bring and a bright hope to unveil for the future.

Consequently, it is impossible for a Calvinist to confine religion to a single group, or to some circles among men. Religion concerns the whole of our human race.

notwithstanding all this the chief aim of all human effort remains what it was by virtue of our creation and before the fall, -namely dominion over nature.

And for our relation to the world: the recognition that in the whole world the curse is restrained by grace, that the life of the world is to be honored in its independence, and that we must, in every domain, discover th…

Call to mind that this turn in the history of the world could not have been brought about except by the implanting of another principle in the human heart, and by the disclosing of another world of thought to the human m…

So Calvinism was bound to find its utterance in the democratic interpretation of life; to proclaim the liberty of nations; and not to rest until both politically and socially every man, simply because he is man, should b…

Calvinism, as the only decisive, lawful, and consistent defence for Protestant nations against encroaching, and overwhelming Modernism,—this of itself was bound to be my theme.

When thus taken, I found and confessed, and I still hold, that this manifestation of the Christian principle is given us in Calvinism. In Calvinism my heart has found rest.

Two life systems are wrestling with one another, in mortal combat. Modernism is bound to build a world of its own from the data of the natural man, and to construct man himself from the data of nature; while, on the othe…

Make meikle of assurance, for it keepeth your anchor fixed.

I hope, when a change cometh, to cast anchor at midnight upon the Rock which He hath taught me to know in this daylight; whither I may run, when I must say my lesson without book, and believe in the dark.

Glory, glory dwelleth in Immanuel's land!

This night will close the door, and fasten my anchor within the veil, and I shall go away to sleep.

What an excellent thing would it be for you, to make such holy improvements of all these earthly objects which daily occur to your senses, and cause them to proclaim and preach to you divine and heavenly mysteries.

They that are careless in the day of grace, shall be speechless in the day of judgment.

I confess the discoveries of God in the word are far more excellent, clear, and powerful; he hath magnified his word above all his name.

As the body cannot have life but by having communion with the soul, so the soul cannot have blessedness but by having immediate communion with God.

A man may be a true believer, and yet would give all the world, were it in his power, to know that he is a believer.

To have grace, and to be sure that we have grace, is glory upon the throne, it is heaven on this side heaven.

Assurance is not of the essence of a Christian. It is required to the well-being, to the comfortable and joyful being of a Christian; but it is not required to the being of a Christian.

Sin is an unclean thing, it is hyperbolically evil.

Read the Bible with reverence. Think in every line you read that God is speaking to you.

God is an unmixed good. There is no condition in this life but has its mixture; for every drop of honey hath its gall.

God is the summum bonum, the chief good; therefore the enjoyment of him is the highest felicity.

Knowledge of fundamentals is the golden key that opens the chief mysteries of religion; it gives us a whole system and body of divinity, exactly drawn in all its lineaments and lively colours.

You dwell in the City of Destruction, the place also where I was born: I see it to be so; and, dying there, sooner or later, you will sink lower than the grave, into a place that burns with fire and brimstone.

I am a poor burdened sinner. I come from the City of Destruction, but am going to Mount Zion, that I may be delivered from the wrath to come.

This miry slough is such a place as cannot be mended; it is the descent whither the scum and filth that attends conviction for sin doth continually run, and therefore it is called the Slough of Despond.

Why, Sir, this burden upon my back is more terrible to me than all these things which you have mentioned; nay, methinks I care not what I meet with in the way, if so be I can also meet with deliverance from my burden.